LORD, Thank YOU For Knowing Such Insignificant Nothing As I.

The drop of water--and a giant being!
(Charles Spurgeon, "God's Estimate of Time" 1862)

"Surely the nations are like a drop 
in a bucket; they are regarded 
as dust on the scales; HE weighs 
the islands as though they were 
fine dust!" Isaiah 40:15

Within the compass of a drop of water 

we are told that sometimes a thousand 

living creatures may be discovered; 

and to those diminutive creatures, 

no doubt, their size is something 

very important. 

There is a creature inside that 

drop which can only be seen 

by the strongest microscope--

but it is a hundred times larger 

than its neighbor, and it feels, 

no doubt, that the difference 

is amazing and extraordinary.

But to you and to I, who cannot even 

see the largest of these creatures 

with the naked eye, the larger 

animalcule is as imperceptible 

as his dwarfish friend--

they both seem so utterly 

insignificant that we squander 

whole millions of them, and 

are not very penitent if we 

destroy them by thousands.

But what would one of those little 

imperceptible animals say if some 

prophet of its own kind could tell 

them that there is a 'giant being' 

living that would reckon the 'whole 

world of a drop of water' as nothing, 

and could take up ten thousand 

thousand of those drops and scatter 

them without exertion of half its power; 

that this 'giant being' would not be 

encumbered if it should carry on the tip 

of its finger all the thousands that live 

in that great world--

a drop of water; that this 'giant being' 

would have no disturbance of heart, 

even if the great king of one 

of the empires in that drop should 

gather all his armies against it and 

lead them to battle?

Why, then the minuscule creatures 

would say, "How can this be? 

We can hardly grasp the idea?" 

But when that microscopic philosopher 

could have gotten an idea of man, and 

of the utter insignificance of its own self, 

and of its own little narrow world--

then it would have achieved an easy 

task, compared with that which lies 

before us when we attempt to get 

an idea of our great GOD.

We think of the infinite nature 

of GOD in being able to marshal all 

the stars, and govern all the orbs 

which bespangle the brow of night; 

but I take it to be quite as great a 

wonder that HE should even know 

that such insignificant nothings as 

we humans are in existence, much 

more that HE should count every 

hair of our heads, and not allow 

one of them to fall to the ground 

without HIS express decree.

The Infinite is as much known 

in the 'small' as in the 'magnanimous', 

and GOD may be as really discovered 

by us in the drop of water as in the rolling 

orb. But this is astonishing of GOD--

that HE even observes us!

   
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