If one human life was the equivalent to one typed word in a book...
The average book has 350 words on a page...
The average book has 400 pages...
Then the amount of books needed to represent the 6.7 billion people in the world today is 48,000 books (actually a bit more, but we’ll keep our estimates low)
If the earth is 6-7 thousand years old and an average lifetime is 70 years, taking the smaller number (6,000) to offset the fact that before the flood people lived hundreds of years and because population increases, then we would need around 4 million books to represent all the people who have walked on this earth, if each person was simply one word in a book.
4 million books in a library and you pull out one book and read one word.
That’s my life.
One word.
Seems pretty insignificant in light of the whole library.
But the library is HIS story and I am simply one word in one of the volumes...
Why do we think the universe revolves around our lives? Why are we center stage and demand to be the star of our own story?
He is so much greater and bigger than us...imagine before creating the world, God wrote 4 million volumes of stories, each word requiring intimate detail, in order to accomplish His will here on earth...
And in my one word He included “forgiven, justified, paid in full, glorified, blessed, child, heir, beloved”...
Sometimes we need a perspective check...
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My mind went to John 21:25 after Kristen sent me those thought-provoking words:
"And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books which were written."
Romans 11:36 - "For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever."
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