God is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, the first and the last. In the context of Him, in the context of eternity, even in just the context of the present (with the six billion plus people on the planet), I am just one little speck. But I’m so grateful that this God of indescribable proportion and eternal perspective, so big and so long, loves me. He thinks of me. He speaks to me. He cares for me. He directs me. He corrects me. He molds me. He chose me. And, though I wish there were grander words and a tribute magnificent enough to just begin giving Him the honor He truly deserves, I simply thank Him and give Him this life, all of it, all of me, for choosing to love me.

Lord, I thank You.

Recently I heard a song called “Amazing God” by William Murphy (listen to it HERE).  The end of the song says:

You sit high and look down low 

Earth is Your footstool 

Heaven’s Your throne

That really struck me so I went to the Word to look at this idea of our God sitting high but looking low.  The main scripture I ended up looking at is Psalm 113:4-6: “The Lord is high above all nations, and His glory above the heavens. Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high, Who humbleth Himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!” 

I think that is awesome!  We serve a God who is SOOOOOO high but reaches down soooo low to us. That is incredible!  He is this holy, self-existent, perfect, omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-knowing) God of everything who looks at these small, insignificant, imperfect, sinful, often rebellious, needy humans. He looks at and cares about us, our lives, our well-being, our souls, our hearts, our bodies. While He could be worried about a million other things, He looks at us!  He thinks about us (Psalm 139:17-18; Jeremiah 29:11)!  He moves on our behalf as the rest of chapter 113 (Psalm 113:7-9) goes on to say. He cares about US! Each and every one of us! 1 Peter 5:7 says, “Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.” He cares about us! And, yes, He loves all of us (“For God so loved the world…” John 3:16) but He cares and loves each of us individually. That blows my mind.

Being so high up, above us, I would think He would be rather inaccessible (like many people who think they’re really high, mighty, and important) because He actually is incredibly high, mighty, and important.  He could sit way up there and be about His business, forgetting and neglecting us. But that is not the case. He chooses to look down low and reach out to us with everything, regardless of where we are at.  He wants to be in relationship with each of us.  He chooses to love us!  As the song “Here I Am To Worship” says, for love’s sake, He became poor (2 Corinthians 8:9).  Though He was God almighty, He took on the form of servant (Philippians 2:5-8).  He CAME down (1 Timothy 3:16) to reconcile the world back to Himself (2 Corinthians 5:18-19)!  And now, we can boldly come to Him to obtain mercy and find grace, getting everything we need from His throne of grace (Hebrews 4:12).  We have open access to the KING, our Father (Ephesians 2:18). He chose to bring us, those who were far off, nigh by His own blood (Ephesians 2:13). He bridged an incredibly wide gap to get to us because He cares that much.

Psalm 8:4 says, “What is man, that Thou are mindful of him? And the son of man, that Thou visitest him?”  A God so high, so much higher than anything else, reaches down to us. He calls us. He loves us. He chose us. He thinks about us. He sees us. He does not have to be mindful of us and care about us. But He does. And I am grateful. I will thank Him with everything I have - all of my praise, all of my worship, and all of my life in which I properly respond to His love. He’s worthy of that. All He has done demands it.