Looking at East Coast beach from the ground as I normally would gives me a sense that there is so much sand on it and it is a long stretch I cannot finish walking from one end to the other in a short time. The area under my feet when I stand on the sand makes up less than 1% of the entire beach surface. Yet, from the airplane, flying over the beach, the stretch of sand appears only to be one thin strip of brown, sandwiched between the green grass and the green seawater.
It is interesting that the same thing can look so vastly different from different perspectives and angles. The beach that was so infinite now seems so small and finite once I changed from a finite perspective to a more infinite one. This is perhaps how God is as He views things not from our perspectives but from His infinite perspective. Our problems and pains seem so overwhelming from our limited perspective and we can see no solution at all. But... How far, really, can we stretch our sight? These same problems and pains are nothing to God. As it is impossible for our hands to collect all the sand on the beach, from above, the thin strip of brown seems almost possible to be picked up with the thumb and index finger as if to pick up a biscuit stick to eat.
We need to shift ourselves to where He is, to remember His greatness and infiniteness, to know that nothing is ever too big for Him, nothing is impossible to Him. And if we cannot comprehend His perspective, since our minds and hearts do not have that infinite capacity to do so, we could learn to let go of our finiteness to trust more in His infinite wisdom and providence, always lovingly poured out to us.
Written on the plane 31 May 2011
Edited on 5 June 2011
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