For Christmas my
brother gave me Gungor's new album, I Am Mountain.
The title track
starts off this way:
I
am mountain, I am dust
Constellations
made of us
There’s
glory in the dirt
A
universe within the sand
Eternity within a man
Eternity within a man
Part of the bridge
states:
Momentary
carbon stories
From
the ashes
Filled
with holy ghost
Life
is here now
The rest of the song
follows this theme, that we are nothing yet we are everything. We are small yet
we are huge. We can do nothing on our own yet we have the capacity for
everything.
I think we forget
that.
Some people are
scared and accumulate wealth, power, or egotism in an effort to
forget and discard their nothingness.
Some people are
scared and hide within themselves and won't develop or reveal their full
capacity as a person in an effort to forget and discard their greatness.
I believe both these
stances are destructive and irresponsible.
We are truly
nothing. A natural disaster can wipe us off the face of the planet within moments. Wars and
human rights crises consistently illustrate human kind's destructive nature. In
the big scheme of things, we are ants aimlessly wandering around and
destroying our watery planet hanging in the middle of one galaxy
amidst thousands in a big, black, vacuum of a universe that is only God knows how
large. We are dust.
Yet. Oh, how very
yet.
That same God
hand-crafted every atom that ever was or will be. That same God breathed life
into us unworthy humans. He was the one who made eternity touch this earth at
the resurrection of His Son. He brought us purpose - Himself, to love Him and
to love His beloved. Those same cosmos that engulf us in wonder are held within the Creator, the personal God that inhabits our hearts. We are created in His
image and we. are. mountain.
Yes, we are nothing.
But we are everything.
There is grace when
we sin and fall. There is Love to keep us going.
A paraphrase of
Romans 5:8 reads as follows:
"You are loved
more than you will ever know by Someone who died to know you."
Be vast. Be
brilliant. For you are the created loved by the Creator. You have been given
the capacity of the cosmos to work for the better.
This is what I have
been reveling in. This is my encouragement to you today.
