That was a very big hole in the ground

Several years ago my wife Frances and I had the privilege of venturing out west one summer. While we were in the area we stopped to see the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Now that is a big hole in the ground.

I was amazed at how vast the view was. From rim to rim the Grand Canyon averages around thirteen miles across. It is about a mile deep and if you have not had the chance to see it the Grand Canyon is massive.

When standing on the rim and looking down we were struck by the creativity of God. He chose to place a huge canyon that would amaze us in just that spot. The levels and layers are beautiful. The Colorado River that runs through the canyon floor is dwarfed by the canyon walls and rock formations. The sight is breathtaking and God’s hand was behind it all.

Psalm 95 verses 3-5 say, “For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth and the mountain peaks belong to him. The sea is his, for he made it and his hands formed the dry land.”

God holds the earth in his hands. The sea is his because he made it. The dry land is his because he formed it. The beauty of this world can only be attributed to the God who designed it then brought it to be. What a great artist! What a great Creator! What a great God!

What should be our proper response to such a great God? “Come and let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker, for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care,” Psalm 95 continues in verses six and seven.

The proper response to the God who has created it all, including the majestic Grand Canyon, is to “bow down in worship” and to “kneel before the Lord our Maker.” When we know that God has made it all, then we should be moved to worship him in spirit and truth.

From the majesty of the world around us, we learn of God’s creative character. Then we know that he made us too, we should be amazed at the detail he puts into his fantastic creation. From the beauty of the Grand Canyon to the detail and masterful work of creating a hand that can type is amazing and pass me by on this one. I can type, got up to around fifty or sixty words or more per minute while I was in high school, but my problem is that I cannot think when I type. Therefore, Ms. Dorothy has to do it for me.

God can most definitely do the big things well. He can pay close attention to details and he most surely does deserve our worship. He can handle the big things in my life and your life well and he can handle the day to day small things also. Let us worship him for being the God of the big things and the God of the small things too.

In closing let me tell you that when we visited the Grand Canyon many years ago there was a car in the parking lot where we parked that had a Meriwether County tag on it. We did not know who the car belonged to and had no way of finding out.

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