90 Days for Noelle - Day 13

I think I am one of the last people on Earth to start reading Crazy Love by Francis Chan, but I am now in the process. Jessica picked it up in Cleveland yesterday and I am a few chapters in now but I am already hooked. I've been wanting to read it for a while and after some recent encouragement (Michelle & Rachel), I figured its time. I know I just started it, but there has been a few points made that I have really been dwelling on. I just want to talk about one tonight. I am not a scientific kind of guy but I have been thinking a lot about the first video referenced in the book. 'Awe Factor of God'. Pick the link and check it out. To really think about the vastness of God is a hard place to let your mind go. The size of our planet alone is almost incomprehensible. God has given us a wonderful place to live called Earth and we take it for granted. Just here on Earth we have mountains and oceans, jungles and rivers, natural beauty that can make you sit and stare at it for hours without saying a word. But outside of that, this Earth is just a tiny spec in our galaxy. Our Galaxy is just a tiny spec in our universe, and on top of that we have to realize that our God is still bigger. He made it all. He is over it all. Then when you dwell on this for a few moments, and you start to get that feeling in side of just 'awe'. You have to bring it back down and realize that he created, knows, and cares for YOU. Out of all the millions of planets in this universe and all the billions of people on Earth, he knows YOU. He loves YOU. I am not sure exactly where the author is going from this point, but as I think about it I believe it shows us just how our life should not be about us but be all about Him. Doing His work and glorifying Him. This adoption of Noelle is not just our desire, but what God desires for us. He has called us to adopting her and adding her to our family just as we are a part of His. In God's plan we need her as much as she needs us.

Luke 12:6-8

⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. ⁷ Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. ⁸ “I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God. 

God, we praise You for who You are. We are in awe of You. You are the God of all and we thank you for loving us. We thank you for the plans you have for us and we thank you for the journey You have set for us. We pray for your guidance along our journey and that you keep your hand upon us and Noelle. Please let us listen for your voice and go in the directions You would have us to go. To die to our flesh daily and follow the calling You have on our lives. In Your name we pray, Amen.