Prayer MattersSýnishorn

Unto the Glory and Praise of God

We live in a physical world where temporal needs can often seem overwhelming and perpetual in our narrow view of reality. But in the grand scheme of eternity, our problems are actually, very small. Let’s try to comprehend for a moment just how small we really are.

Consider this: if you looked up at the stars on a clear night, it is mind-blowing to think that the closest one (after the sun) is 25 trillion miles from earth! While that sounds like a vast distance, completely impossible for our finite minds to comprehend, it is actually relatively close—slightly more than four light years away. Compare that with other stars that are known to be more than 80,000 light years away, and there could be as many as 400 billion of them just within our galaxy!

If you feel small now, hold on to your hat! There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe, which spans tens of billions of light years!

All the unfathomable vastness that makes up our universe exists in a tiny plane of time and space that we know as the physical world. So, why should the omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, eternal God intervene in our affairs of such utter triviality? Because God uses our lives as a platform from which He desires to receive praise and glory. From the day we are born until the day we die, our lives exist for one reason—to glorify God.

A hundred trillion years after this earth has been melted down and everything we know as “reality” has vanished forever, your best and worst moments, your struggles and victories, your pains and pleasures will seem like a faded dream. In that day, the only memorial of our world will be the snapshots in God’s picture album, and everyone will have the same caption, “Unto the Glory and Praise of God.” All these pictures are snapshots of moments in time when a man or a woman dared to trust God. They are moments when someone obeyed even when they didn’t understand. They are snapshots of when God’s strength was made perfect through human weakness. These are the things that really matter. This is why we pray. This is why we intercede—not just so that our temporary lives can be enriched, but so that God’s enduring Kingdom may be advanced. Let our lives bring Him glory!