The Enormity of God

I was in Isaiah this morning (40:12-17):

"Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span,

enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and hills in a balance?  

Who has measured the Spirit of the LORD, or what man shows him his counsel?  

Whom did he consult, and who made him understand?  

Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?  

Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.  

Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.  

All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness."

Reading this sent me in two directions: 

First, it renewed my sense of awe at who God is.  I often reduce God to the confines of my life and my problems (even though His nature and Word point in the opposite direction).  We did not create God, He created us.  We are nothing compared to Him, but in His great love and to magnify His beautiful grace, He came to us and makes much of us in the way He loves us and involves Himself in every detail of our lives.  This is a great encouragement to me as I raise support.

Second, this reminds me of a vital transformation in my heart that took place about 5 years ago.  When I began to get a "world Christian" perspective God became so much bigger in my heart and mind.  When I only thought of Him as God of my comfortable, white American, middle-class world He didn't seem that big.  However, as I caught a glimpse of Him as God of all nations, of all peoples, cultures and languages in their great diversity He looked huge.  I remember picturing this during a time of worship: Jesus kind of hovering over the whole earth from a space-like perspective, knowing every detail of every joy and sorrow in every corner of the earth, sovereignly ruling over it all.

I guess I should get over myself and really open my eyes to the beauty of His grace.