This is a photo from the robotic spaceship MESSENGER. This is the view from the planet Mercury as the camera looks back at earth with the moon beside it. As our spaceships have gone out further and further into space it seems we are a most insignificant planet, almost lost in space, but one thing sets this little spot of light apart from the stars around it- this little planet is inhabited by people that God loves. In fact the most familiar verse in the bible comes to mind as I thought about this photo, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whoever believes in him will not perish, but will have everlasting life." In one short verse this little spot of light takes on eternal significance. The God of creation visited this tiny spot of light and invested himself eternally in our lives. We are not lost in space, but are wonderfully found and loved by the God who made us. When things seem so big and I feel so insignificant I go back to a little manger in Israel where God declared with a simple birth that he cares about the race that inhabits this little spot of light.
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