Significant

My balcony has temporarily changed as we travel from Barcelona to Mykonos on a cruise liner. As you can see, or not, there is nothing but sea and sky until they meet at the horizon. As I walk around the deck of the ship it is the same view from no matter where you are on the ship. Nothing. We are the only visible object for approximately 700 square miles! This set me thinking, yet again, about how insignificant we are on this planet we inhabit. 

In 1990 Voyager 1 took a photo of earth from a distance of 3.7 billion miles from the Sun. These numbers are staggering. Earth as described in the title of the photograph from Voyager is The Pale Blue Dot. In the view earth is so insignificant, barely visible, and here I am, on that insignificant planet on an insignificant boat. Mind blowing. 

What is also mind blowing to me is that despite that insignificance, we believe as Christians that God sees none of us as insignificant. We are but the tiniest spec in creation yet the creator loves us. Psalm 139 talks about how Gos knew us before we were born. Now that makes me, and you, and everyone one around us significant. If you’re down at the moment please remember you are significant to someone and always to God.