Monday Morning Music Ministry

3-30-26

When we consider the vastness of Space, the anomalies of Time that had no beginning, and a Universe with no boundaries – besides these things making our heads hurt – we cannot help but confront the utter greatness of our Creator God. Secularists and skeptics, and the foolish, can scoff and say that insane theories like Big Bangs and Intelligent Design explain it all. But frankly these are all ways to grasp at straws.

Many people are senseless, or deluded, or a form of suicidal, convinced either that if they don’t believe in God there must be no God; or that they can gamble their mortality – and immortality – away.

I mentioned the enormity of the universe, and ask us to consider the utter greatness of God. Not only the physical realms to consider… but ourselves. The earth – as we learn what a tiny speck it is in the vast universe – we are reminded that the Bible teaches against the possibility that there are “other” earths out there. No other people, no other creatures, no other civilizations. Those secularists and skeptics claim that it is absurd that a God would create only one world with beings out of millions of planets, ignoring that God can do what He pleases. They also argue that we should feel insignificant, inhabiting one tiny speck in a galaxy among billions of others.

Well, God says, and we say, that such a fact makes us not insignificant, but special.

More than that, we are so special to this God that He sacrificed His incarnate Son to die in order to redeem our transgressions. He holds you and me so special that His care is almost incalculable.

• Job addressed our special status with God (7:17,18): What is man, that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart on him, that You should visit him every morning, and test him every moment? Have you asked such elemental questions?
• In the Garden, Jesus sweated drops of blood in His prayerful agony over our sins. And indeed God’s love for us was so special that His plan for us, His children, to be reconciled to Him requires only that we acknowledge Jesus as Savior.
• The Psalmist earlier acknowledged God’s special love (Psalm 139:13-14): For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
• Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved (Psalm 55:22).
• We cannot avoid John 3:16 – For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
• Regarding whether we are “special” to God, or not; or how special, remember these words from Jesus: Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

These things we know, as believers – or should know. The world hears these words, and routinely ignores them, neither inspired nor in fearful awe. I want to challenge ourselves, however. Do we believers really know these things? Do we take them to heart? If they are life-affirming, life-changing, do our lives reflect our acknowledgement?

For instance, “God can count the hairs on our head.” Now that is likely metaphorical as well as literal, and without going to secularists’ image of God with a great white beard… But do you endeavor to know God as well as He knows us? He has shared His ways, His laws, His precepts, His commandments, His promises… do you work to make “understanding” a two-way street?

He blesses us in uncountable ways. How often and how sincerely do we praise, honor, and bless Him in “harp, song, and voice” – everywhere, every way?

Do we actually realize what a miracle life is… and that we are the apple of God’s eye: special above specially created things?

When we fail to recognize how special we are to the Almighty Creator, we not only demean ourselves but display gross ignorance and ingratitude to Him. He numbers the hairs on our head? – that is, He knows everything about us, more than we know ourselves. Conversely, we can not know everything about Him… or we would be Gods.

But we can try. We can pray, acknowledging and in gratitude. We can accept Jesus as Lord, Son of God, Savior of our souls. We can praise Him. We can share the Good News of the Gospel.

And we can remind ourselves that, no matter how vast the sparkly universe seems, that little speck, our home, is very special to its Creator. And that He is very special to us.

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The great Mosie Lister song, performed by the Old Friends Quartet. Around the fireplace: Ruth Graham, George Beverly Shea, Cliff Barrows, and legendary singers. Taped at Billy Graham’s retreat center The Cove.

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