Since we know and believe that God is the Creator of everything, we must understand that we are speaking about a truly awesome and great God. Our minds cannot fully comprehend His greatness, nor even the greatness and magnitude of what He has done.
“For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse…“ (Romans 1:20)
In this verse, we see that God reveals Himself through His creation. Creation testifies about Him. When I look at a beautiful, clear sky filled with stars, my faith is stirred because I see the greatness of God. We see Him in what He has made; our Creator comes to mind when we contemplate His creation. Any person, even a skeptical one, may sense that there is something beyond what the eye can see, something greater behind it all, especially when looking at the vastness of the starry sky. We become lost in the greatness, depth, and wonder we find there.
Yes, people marvel at creation, but what we need to marvel at most is the Creator. The Bible tells us that He is the Creator of the heavens and the stars. Psalm 19:1 says, “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork.”
In the Milky Way alone, the galaxy where our planet is found, there are estimated to be between 100 and 400 billion stars. Just consider that our Sun is only one of them, because the Sun itself is a star. And not only that, but there are also hundreds of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe, some even larger than our own Milky Way. And this is only what our telescopes are able to observe.
All this means that we truly believe in a great and mighty God. The Bible tells us that He created the heavens, the earth, and the stars. A publication I once read said, “The universe is already far too big to understand. But scientists just found that it’s actually much bigger than we’d previously thought.” And these facts are based only on what we can see, observe, or perceive. Beyond that, we simply do not know. Yet we are so focused on discovering another planet or some form of life beyond Earth that we often fail to look at the bigger picture and recognize the Creator behind it all.
In Psalm 8:3–4 we read: “When I consider Your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon, and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?“
Here we clearly see God as the Creator of the heavens, the stars, and everything above us—constellations, galaxies, and all the wonders of the universe. We see a perfect order and a system that can also be seen in other parts of creation, even in the smallest structures, such as the atom. In an atom, the nucleus stands at the center, while electrons are arranged around it. In a similar way, we also see order in the way planets move around larger bodies, such as the sun. Though their size and the way electrons move are not exactly the same, we can still see the same concept of order and design behind them. This points to the fact that the same mind is behind them.
When we consider the vast number of galaxies, we see the greatness of God and how small we truly are. This leads us to ask: how can such a great God care for creatures as small as us, such a small part of His creation?
We find part of the answer in Luke 16:10:
“He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much, and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much.”
We must understand that when God says or commands something, He is the first to fulfill it, unlike us. This is His nature. His nature is completely aligned with His Word and with what He commands to be done. His Word is an expression of Himself.
For example, if He tells us to love, it is because He loves. If He tells us to be righteous, it is because He Himself is righteous. And if He tells us to be faithful in what is least, it is because He is faithful in what is least as well. God is faithful even with what is least, even with the smallest part of His creation. He looks at the details, and that is why He looks at us. That is why He does not only look at this planet called Earth, but also at each person living on it.
The question is that, out of all creation, we are the ones who have gone astray and fallen out of order. God wants to address this disorder and bring everything back into its proper order. He will not only bring it back to what it was before, but will also restore everything in an even better and more glorious way. He wants to take care of it, because He is a God of order. It is in His nature to put everything in its proper place and in the right way. He cares even for the details. That is who He is. That is why, when He says that He will take care of each of His children in every detail, even the tiniest one, we need to have faith in that. He says that even the very hairs of our heads are all numbered (Matthew 10:30). Yes, things may not unfold the way we thought they would, because His will is different from our expectations, but we need to be confident in Him.
God gives importance to details that we often would not. We would usually care only for what is greater, or for what we consider more important. That is why He cares for one out of a hundred sheep, and even for one person out of billions. And even if you were the only one living on this earth, He would still have died for you.
He could have simply wiped everything away because of our sin and condition, but instead, He made Himself like us and came to die for us. Just imagine how small we are, and how small our hearts are, with every single feeling and thought within them—yet He still cares about them. He is focused on them; He observes them.
His mind is so great, vast, and powerful that He is able to take in so many things at once. He actually takes in all things at once. Looking at the examples of how this world system functions, we see that the greater someone is, or the higher rank he holds in an organization, the greater the matters he has to deal with. The more minor matters are usually left to people lower than him. A country’s president, for example, may never care about who is cleaning the toilets in the presidential building or who supplies the paper for his printer.
But it is not the same with God. He looks at and observes everything, even the smallest details.
My point in stating all of this is tied to the question: Why is such a great God interested in us? The answer is found in His Word, where we see Him giving such importance to the details, and also practically in our personal lives, where we see Him taking care of them.
Obviously, to a person who does not believe in God, it may not look this way. In fact, it may even seem to be the opposite when observing the situations the world is facing today. But it is this way because of human choices and because people have rejected God. That is why there are troubles in the world.
Still, my point is tied to the reason He came to die for us. When we trust in Him, we begin to experience His faithfulness. Many times, this faithfulness does not appear in the way we expect, but in His way, which is good for us.
For Him, the least person is just as important as the greatest. And in a way, we need to have the same heart. I once heard a man of God share a word, saying that if we want to succeed with God, we need to pay attention to the details—to the things that may sometimes appear less important to us, but still have value before God. Because this is the mind of God.
We see this many times in His Word: “Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones…” (Matthew 18:10), and again, “Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish” (Matthew 18:14). He gives importance to the details and to the small things. Jesus also says, “Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten before God” (Luke 12:6).
Here we see how deep His mind is; we see how great His mind is. So, if someone says to you, “Do you really think that God would care for people as small and insignificant as us?” you can answer, “Yes, that is exactly what He does.”
He cares for your life, and if you are a believer, He cares about how you walk before Him and doesn’t want you to break His commandments and go astray. This is also because we hurt ourselves that way. He cares about you.
Obviously, when we say that He cares about the details, we are not necessarily speaking about material things, unless they are directly involved with His will, but about things related to His Spirit. We often need to be honest even in the smallest matters, because there is no such thing as a small lie, and we need to give importance even to the smallest warnings.
“Dead flies putrefy the perfumer’s ointment, and cause it to give off a foul odor; so does a little folly to one respected for wisdom and honor” (Ecclesiastes 10:1).
And God did not only look upon creatures as small as us, but He also became a man in order to come closer to us, reach us, die for us, have a relationship with us, and feel what we feel. As the verse says: “Who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men” (Philippians 2:6–7).
He did all this to come closer to us, create a bond with us, and make a relationship with Him possible, so that we may receive Him into our lives. Therefore, what we need to desire is to be among those who believe in Him and submit to Him.
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