[Difference Makers ls] God of the Universe and Little Ol’ Me Sample

Look Up

When I was in college, I worked at a camp in Livingston. It was a summer camp. The counselors would all park their cars in the staff lot way down around the back. It wasn’t really cool, on your off night, to be pulling your car right up to a cabin full of kids. I would ride my mountain bike. All of us who were off that night, we would go get a hamburger or whatever and come back. Then I would get on my bike and ride it from the staff lot back to the cabin. It was probably a mile-long journey.

If you have ever been in the east piney Texas woods at night, it is darker than dark there. The route from the lot to the cabin was just a long road lined with high pine trees and no street lights. I would be on my bike at night, trying to get back to the cabin, but I could not really see where I was going, so what I did is just look up. By looking at the trail of stars I could see the tree line. I would ride my bike looking up in the sky. It was amazing, until that first speed bump. Then I figured out where the speed bumps were, and I could make it and be okay.

This is a great picture of how we are to live life: looking up. One person put it like this: “Look at others and you’ll be distressed; look at yourself and you’ll be depressed; look up and you’ll be blessed." How do you find security in life? You do it by looking up, not around. You find security not in comparison, nor in what’s going on, but by looking up, and seeing the stars, and remembering Who made them and knows them by name.

Look up! God is vast and yet He loves you and me. The God of the universe and little old me, in Jesus Christ, come together in relationship: that is grace! The bigger you see God, the more you will appreciate grace. And the more you appreciate grace, the more your heart will go to live a life for this grand, big God. He calls the stars and He calls you. 

Am I looking at the Lord or looking at the darkness? Is my security in the God of grace? 

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