My soul thirsts for you;
my whole body longs for you
in this parched and weary land
where there is no water.
I have seen you in your sanctuary
and gazed upon your power and glory.

Ps63:1-2

One week on, and still my prayer is the same, to be captivated by God’s glory. Psalm 63 explains why David, no matter what his physical condition was, sought God with a fiercely devout passion – he caught the revelation of God’s power and glory, and found that secret place of God’s presence. In order to give God due reverence, I hence feel the need to pursue the knowledge of the greatness of His glory.

“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – His eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse”

Rom 1:20-21

All creation in the known and unknown universe declares God’s glory.

I remember going to the lego exhibits at the old world trade centre in Singapore, and being blown away by the attention to detail and size of the scale models such as the Titanic. I was impressed at how several thousand pieces of lego were painstakingly put together to form all the exhibits. Hence, when I consider and compare the work of God’s hands, I am completely, utterly, blown away. While I was impressed as a kid when a bunch of humans used a few thousand blocks of lego to build scale models, God has used cells as the building blocks of our human bodies and other living things. Each of us consists of a hundred trillion cells, and He designated them to perform specific tasks. And even then, cells consist of numerous tinier structures, and these tinier structures are made up of molecules, which are made up of compounds, which are in turn made up of atoms. Atoms are so small that the full stop at the end of this sentence contains more than a million of them.

This is the God I serve – a God who measured the universe by the span of His hand, yet is so detailed in His design of the earth and all living things, that modern science is still left baffled after years of study and billions of dollars. It lends a whole new meaning when I recall that “I am fearfully and wonderfully made”. (lalala too lazy to find out which psalm tt is frm ^^)

God, I thank You for this time in Your presence, where I can be still and dwell on the work of Your hands. I thank You for giving me a glimpse of Your glory tonight. As I extend my comprehension of Your greatness, may I increase my capacity to fear and revere You for who You are. May I always recall Your glory, and out of that, let faith rise above all circumstances, because I serve a great God who has made this same power available to me through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

I asked God for a glimpse of His glory, that I would be overwhelmed and praise Him for His greatness, and this is what spoke:

"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge."
Ps 19:1-2

As you stop and think about the boundless expanse of the universe, you are able to catch a glimpse of just how big, how majestic, how powerful God is. His creation encompasses the rest of the universe that you cannot see. He created the stars and placed them in the sky with His fingers. You reflect on the figures you read a long time ago on the vastness of the universe, and you are amazed. Light from the sun takes 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach the earth. If we were to fly there on a plane it would take over 20 years to cover that distance. The nearest star is over 4 light years away, which would take 51 billion years to reach by airplane. The closest galaxy to the Milky Way is over 2 million light years away. We are unable to glimpse the end of the galaxy clusters, let alone the end of the universe, and yet God counts the number of the stars, counts them all by name, and is able to measure the length of the universe with the palm of His hand!

"When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?"
Ps 8:3-4

Ps 8 records the response of one of the angels who surrounded the throne of God at Creation: this awesome, mighty God, who made the entire universe with His hands, decided to come down to Earth, one little planet in a little solar system within an average galaxy amongst a cluster of millions of other galaxy, so that He could make an insignificant speck of dust into the body of man, and breathe His spirit into it. What amazed the angel was God's focus of attention, that it would be fixed entirely on man, on us.


God, help me to be still in Your presence, and consider the work of Your hands. You are awesome, magnificient, powerful, the king of kings, Creator, all encompassing, the alpha and the omega. I praise You for everything that You've done. All creation declares Your glory. In light of Your glory and magnificience, who are we, that You are so interested in and fondly affectionate toward? Who are we, that we might constantly be on Your mind - the total focus of Your plans?

Help me gain a greater revelation of just how great Your love is for me God. Allow me to be so overwhelmed by Your grace and love, that I might be transformed and live a life that is pleasing to You. In light of who You are, and what You've done for me, help me to stop being an ungrateful brat. Fill me with a holy fear of You, and teach me to just pause and ask You what I can do to please You today. Amen.