When you look out the window, the earth is so huge you can't see the end of it. Even up in a plane, you can't really see very much of the surface of the earth at once. It takes you 8 hours to fly at 300km/h from Cape Town to London - a mere 6012 miles. Yet our experience of the earth is that it's actually quite small... the Global Village. How small is it really?
One of the blogs I read regularly, Domkop, posted a link to a site with a gif about the relative sizes of things in the universe. You have to see it! I don't know where or how he found it, but it's incredible. Even for someone like me, who supposedly understands something about the relative sizes of things, I found this gif amazing. On the one hand, it's incredible how small our sun really is, in relation to other stars. It's amazing that something that feels so physically large to us (like the earth) is actually small. How small are we then?
On the other hand, what I find incredible is that God thinks we are more important than the largest star. So much so that he chose this little insignificant planet to put us on, and then chose to step onto it himself, to save us.
Really makes you think.
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