Microscope or Telescope?

I'm scared for the "American" church today. I see far to many nominal Christians who value the gifts of God over God himself. We are so mixed up in this day of the self. Our culture feeds you, and so we put God on the back burner, but this mustn't be. And I can be just as guilty of it as anyone else.

"Creation exists to call attention to the creator, not the creature." - John Piper

I heard a sermon a while back that pointed out two ways we can look at God, through a microscope or through a telescope.

What is the distinction between the two? Well through a microscope we make small things look bigger than they actually are, and a telescope makes something big look how it should, or as close to it as we can get.

Too many people are looking at God through a microscope. We take whatever He can give us and then go back to our own self-sufficiency because we understand how to live our lives better than God does. However, that is a wrong view of God, and that view will lead to destruction. We need to look through a telescope at God, we need to bring is greatness and glory into a bigger and better light. 

David had it right and particularly in Psalms 8. 

O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.

Out of the mouth of babies and infants,

you have established strength because of your foes,

to still the enemy and the avenger.

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

what is man that you are mindful of him,

and the son of man that you care for him?

Just here in verses 1-4, David  is overwhelmed by God. David is looking through a telescope at God, he is seeing God as He is, powerful, glorious, immense, holy, etc. David was a king and yet he felt oh so small in the light of who God is. As should we.

I would ask you to read the Bible with me through a telescope not a microscope. Find God to be who He is and put Him in the rightful place in our lives, number one. 

Telescope not Microscope.