A Place of Glory and Wonder

       I used to have these dreams of traveling across the universe. I would float through endless space, passing through galaxy after galaxy and star system after star system. I would coast through these galaxies and into nebulae and sometimes even onto some of the planets around some of the stars.  Much of these dreams came from media and entertainment I had as a child. I used to have a program called "Starry Night" on my iMac growing up, and this program gave you the ability to pilot a space-ship and travel to other stars and even other galaxies. Much of my dreams had the same feel of this program.

       The further I went into space, the more mysterious and even colorful the universe became. It was truly endless. Sometimes I'd reach some sort of boundary where I would run out of galaxies to pass through and I'd cross that boundary only to find more galaxies or even sometimes structures and colors and a mixture of stars and objects that are hard to describe, and I'd be zooming past these in my sleep at a rapid pace for minutes or hours. 

        In my dreams at least, the universe got even weirder the further and deeper into it I went. Dreams like these would actually be a frequent occurrence for me growing up, me being the Star Wars and space nerd growing up that I was. 

 

   It made believing in an infinite existence and my ability to wrap my head around such vastness all the more easy.  Believing God's creation is infinite is as easy to me as believing He himself is infinite.  I sometimes daydream about zooming past stars and galaxies and even universes of structures and components different from ours, universes of tubes, or shapes, or forms, or dimensions hard to fathom for most people. 

         The countless stars and the countless worlds and the countless galaxies and even the countless universes are an excellent way to stretch the imagination.  Of course, as a child doing this, it was a platform for conflict. A platform for victory. A platform for glory and challenge and adventure. An infinite existence is the biggest platform for these things imaginable. 

      I can honestly see why God would create such a massive system. It's for glory. It's a really simple explanation, I know, but a system as massive as the one we are in is an excellent platform and construct for maximal glory, and if existence is truly infinite, then the degree and intensity for glory is infinite as well.

       As for me, an infinitely small creation of God's, I am just lucky to be here.  I don't need to have the full force of God's infinite glory, especially right now.  That would probably be far more than I can handle as a human. I'd be totally content with just a sliver of it. I hope that I can bring glory to God in what I do here, even if my offering of glory to him pales in comparison by an innumerable degree to the glory He is already immersed into. 

       A person of my position and my stature can only do so much and bring so much glory to him, but I don't need to win a battle, or win a war, to bring the kind of glory that would be honorable to God.  I just need to be obedient to him, Love him with all my being, and Love His children and his creation to the best of my ability. 

        There is a glory in love, mercy, and compassion that no contest of brutality or domination could ever supersede or subvert and no victory in bloodshed or war could ever overpower.