Zoom out a little... You can't even see what face I'm making here. What was the person thinking when they took this?! But at least I'm still in the picture!
Zoom out some more... Can you see me now?
... What about now?
... NOW???
Wait... Am I not the center of the universe??! I ACT LIKE IT! We all do sometimes (right?! I'm not alone in this?!)
The surface area of the Earth is about 509,600,000 square km ( that's about 197,000,000 square miles). I cover less than ONE of those. And that is just the Earth, one planet out of God knows how many, in one galaxy out of God knows how many!
I love how in his book Crazy Love, Francis Chan talks about if life were a movie. If life were a movie, guess what?! WE ARENT THE MAIN CHARACTERS! We aren't even the sidekicks that get their faces on the screen. We are the extras that make it in less than a second of the movie and even then it's only the back of our heads.
-Harsh truth... Nobody cares about the extras.
-Beautiful truth... God actually cares about the extras even when nobody else does.
Francis Chan explains that we are only a few decades away from being forgotten. Nobody will care what car we drove, what job we had, or how many good things we did.
So instead of living for these people who won't even remember me a couple decades from now, it makes more since to live for God, who not only will remember me forever but CREATED me and in the midst of all these people He intimately loves me and deeply desires a relationship with me. Right??
I've learned that I can live for myself all I want, but it's exhausting and unsatisfying.
And I know it sounds like I've got this concept under control now, I know the problem and the solution so now I'm just gonna fix everything and life will be grand and I can go worry about other things... Um NO!! This is simply a reminder of perspective that I don't see as often as I should, that I wanted to hopefully share with others who may also need a reminder of this perspective.
