3 creation

Father you created this universe to reflect Yourself. Your wonder. Your beauty. Your unfathomable power and glory. You knew that for a long time we would be limited by large bodies of water, but that in time we would figure out how to make boats and eventually ships. We could start to cross larger and larger bodies of water. The earth was starting to not seem so big. More recently automobiles have made it easier to travel across land. What once took months can now take a day or two. Soon after automobiles came airplanes. Land, sea, mountains all become easy to travel across and the amount of time it takes keeps getting shorter and shorter. Your earth hasn't become any smaller but man's awe of Your hand in it has. It takes a hurricane or other massive natural disaster to remind us that we do not have command over this world. We are a proud, arrogant species. We even managed to find a way off this rock. How proud we were to make it to the moon. We have landed probes on Mars and sent cameras out great distances in our galaxy. But no matter how much we accomplish, it all sheds more light on how immeasurable you are. All the space exploration of the last 50+ years has shown us that we may think we have a good grasp on our little corner of the universe, but we are so tiny compared to the whole of creation. No matter where we are or what we feel we have accomplished, Your creation engulfs us. You knew from the beginning that we would try to establish our independence. That we would strive to prove that we can best the universe. You made sure that there is always another layer beyond our grasp. Let all the peoples of the world praise You and know You as the one true God.

for You died that we may live