Who Am I God?

"When I look at your heavens, 

the work of your fingers, 

the moon and the stars that you have established;

what are human beings that you are mindful of them, 

mortals that you care for them?"

(from Psalm 8)

"Who am I, God, compared to all this beauty that you have made?”

That was the question Shauna Hannan asked while driving through the Canadian Rockies … alone … in a blizzard … in a white car … with no cell phone reception. 

"Who am I compared to all of this majesty and wonder?" 

She knew she could get swallowed up by the strength and power of the blizzard surrounding her. 

This was a cry of desperation as well as awe. 

What are human beings that you are aware of them?

The feeling of insignificance may happen much simpler circumstances.

Behind the last church I served is an open field providing a vast view of the night sky.

Often as I walked from the parsonage to the church for an evening meeting, I would look up and see this night sky filled with stars and occasionally the Northern Lights.

It was an incredible display of the vastness and power of God.

Who am I, God, that in the great scheme of the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, that you would call me to pastor this church you created?

I am, we all are, surrounded by God's love, grace, and majestic creation, questions and all.

The psalm says each of us has a role in God's plan:

    "Yet you have made us a little lower than God, and crowned us with glory and honor.

    You have given us dominion over the works of your hands."

Ultimately, though our purpose is praise of God:

"O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!"

Think about it: In what areas of life do you feel called to exercise a kind of dominion that honors God’s dominion?