Some days, I much prefer to simply step out of my self, to stop being an influencer, to be small and quiet.
How far have you gone before to be ‘quiet’? I have been known to drive a couple of hours, to park in a field or at the side of a deserted mountainous road…just to see the stars. One night, I left what my country-raised children would call the city and drove until I found a large enough shoulder half-way up a mountain that I could sit lay on a blanket on the road between a guardrail and my blacked-out car…just to watch for falling stars.
I like the phrase that King David, once the Shepherd David, use “When I consider….” because it means this was a time that he got quiet…and he looked at the stars.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet; all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. LORD, or Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Psalms 8:3-9
I can talk about God a lot…and can pray and even talk to God. But when was the last time I actually considered God and everything He has done? According to the online search, to consider something/someone is to “think carefully about…typically before making a decision; to think about and drawn toward (a course of action); to regard (someone or something) as having a specified quality; to believe, think; to look attentively at.”
I may not recommend you do the ‘park on the side of a mountain road’ like a certain someone did years ago…but I’d recommend that perhaps you take the time to ‘consider’ God and what He has done. May we echo this King David then ‘how majestic is your name in all the earth!’
