With or Without People

With or Without People?

A second grader once asked his teacher how much the earth weighed. The

teacher looked up the answer in an Encyclopedia. "Six thousand million,

million tons," she answered. The little boy thought for a minute and then

asked, "Is that with or without people?" Viewed from one perspective, it

might very well seem that people don't really matter very much. After all,

we are but microscopic inhabitants of a tiny planet orbiting a relatively

obscure star in a small galaxy among the billions and billions of stars and

galaxies that make up creation. Yet the God of creation has counted the very

hairs of our heads. Wow! What a magnificent picture of God.

King Duncan, The Love of a Father, www.Sermons.com