Our God is the Lord of detail. He manages the minuscule of this universe with the same skillful power used to manage the majestic. The majesty of our Sovereign Lord is beyond comprehension. It is amazing to contemplate that His power reaches equally far in every direction. He is not only ruler of the macrocosm, but also of the microcosm that surrounds us.
Thomas Dubay in his book, The Evidential Power of Beauty, describes subatomic particles of a smallness that stretches the imagination beyond our ability to conceive. They are called superstrings (pictured here) and are incredibly tiny. Imagine the size of one atom. Now compare that atom with the size of the earth. That ratio describes the comparison between a superstring and an atom. If we have a hard time imagining the smallness of an atom, what happens to our thought processes when we try to conceive of a superstring? It is almost beyond belief that anything that small could even exist.
Consider one living cell in your own body. A single cell contains more information than all thirty volumes of The Encyclopedia Britannica combined. Our own DNA polymers are giant molecules made of small molecules in definite and intricate arrangements. This solution, says one expert, exceeds that of any other known system. It is so efficient that all the information needed to specify an organism as complex as man weighs less than a few thousand millionths of a gram. Amazing? Yes, but consider this: The information necessary to specify the design of all the species of organisms which have ever existed on planet earth could be held in a teaspoon and there would still be room for all the information in every book ever written.
One hymnal expresses our response well:
O God, you are great and glorious, we marvel at your power.
Lord, how your wonders are displayed, Where e’er I turn my eye,
If I survey the ground I tread, Or gaze upon the sky!
There’s not a plant or flower below, But makes your glories known.
Wherever paths of science lead,
Thy presence they reveal,
In order and unfailing law,
Of every cosmic field.
Open to us, Lord, the deepest nature and value of every created being,
so that, celebrating You, we may associate it to ourselves in a song of praise.
Show to us, O Lord, your goodness diffused in all created things,
so that we may contemplate your glory everywhere.
Everything God has created is His canvass, painting a Self-Portrait that we might open our eyes and see His beauty to such a degree that we never want to look away again. Never.
I've been impressed with God's details for years. I remember in college learning to identify the caterpillars of certain moths. The book said to recognize a certain family by looking on segment # 9 or 10, this plate on the side will have three hairs in family X, but only two in family Y. I had some specimens, and looked at them in the microscope and was surprised the book was right. And I was amazed, the detail that went into these tiny little creatures that only lived a few weeks before becoming moths.
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