Don't Put God in a box.

Last night I was having a pretty hard time sleeping. I was upstairs then downstairs and just couldn't sleep. Anyways I finally DID get to sleep but woke up again at 3 30.. not so fun. I was just laying in bed and looked out my window (my blinds were open) and seen a pretty bright star, it was the only one that was clearly visible, but there was some others that weren't so bright around the bright star.

This star reminded me that, God is ridiculously, unimaginably, amazingly big. He is so big, in fact that, he created every single last thing, from that star that was probably millions upon millions of miles away, to the tiniest little grain of sand. It is hard to imagine that the God, the creator who made all these things, the things that are so big in comparison to us, can love us so intimately and deeply, and can know each and every last person more than anyone ever could. ever. its crazy..

So so often, we think of God as the God we go to when we need something 'God can you give me this.. can you give me materialistic stuff' when he is SO much more than that.

Too often we think of God as, the God of the earth, and even thats stretching the imagination a little. a Little more personal, we think of God as the god of our own little world, our school, our friends, our church, our town, our family, and everyone does it, in my opinion, it is just in our human nature, because we simply, can't understand just how big God is, no-one will ever understand how big God is, because our minds can only imagine stuff within time, and God is outside of time.

What i'm trying to say is, we put God in this box, it will be different for everybody but the boxes may be called 'my life..' 'my church friends...' 'my school friends...' 'family..' etcetera, yet when we look out at the stars we CAN see (2000 out of 10 to the 21st power [thats 10 with 21 0's after!] ) we have to remind ourselves that God made them, and he made all the stars and galaxies we can't see... which i KNOW is hard to think, but imagine that God created a single grain of soil, and he also created the football pitch where that grain of soil is found. Our universe is somewhat similar to that.

The bottom line is: God is unthinkably big, and we are never going to understand that, but we have to try and accept it. It is hard but we have to try not to put God in the boxes that we put him in. So next time you see a star in the sky, try saying to yourself 'that star is millions of miles away, and MY God made it, thats just how Big he is'