Too Small

I like words-- especially "big" words. My kids got a volume a few years ago, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie... and three other "If You Give a Mouse" books, along with songs and recipes. One of the songs is called "Big Words" and the chorus is: "Supercilious, perspicuity, oratorical, ingenuity, I love being grandiose and very, very, verbally verbose."

So this morning I was reading in Psalms.

Praise the LORD! Praise, O servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD! Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and forevermore! From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the LORD is to be praised! The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens!
Psalms 113:1-4

 We live in the internet age, and probably nearly everyone has seen images from the space telescopes of the galaxies way out in space... This passage says that God's glory is ABOVE that. In fact, the next verses say:

Who is like the LORD our God, who is seated on high, who looks far down on the heavens and the earth?
Psalms 113:5-6

And I started thinking about big words. Words like "awesome" and "mighty" and "powerful" and "superb" and "spectacular". And they all seemed too small. Even "Almighty" and "All-powerful" seem dim when I think about God's glory being GREATER than the glories of the heavens that He created.

But that is not the end of the Psalm. It could be, and it would be sufficient, but the Psalmist reminds us that this GREAT God is NEAR to His people! =)

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes, with the princes of his people. He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the LORD!
Psalms 113:7-9

As I was chewing on the greatness here, and pondering what to title this post, the phrase "too small" came to mind. Along with this verse:

he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."
Isaiah 49:6

That's the gospel! And that's good news! =)

Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands-- remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:11-13