Great Big Cow

 It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man.

God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

~John Piper

For the past three years I have been blown away by something I see every morning at work. I often stop simply to stare at it, because I have been utterly amazed. It is a cow. Not just any cow, but a great big cow. An overwhelmingly huge cow that hangs out with four other normal sized cows at the farm next to where I work. The difference in size between them is stunning, mind-boggling. One just doesn’t see great big cows of that extreme very often.


About Me: As I stopped to stare at the great big cow one recent morning when a beautiful sunrise painted the sky as a backdrop, my thoughts moved to something else that is huge beyond description. That something is our God. Who but a great big God made that beautiful sunrise for me to see? Who but a great big God made this body that I inhabit, the one that breathes on its own, the one whose heart has pumped regularly and rhythmically for all these years? Who but a great big God made me and gave me life I all too often take for granted?

Yes, I thought, that is one great big cow I’m looking at, but nowhere near as big as the great big God who created both it and me. I concluded that cow and I have something in common. Neither of us is as big as our great big God, nor as timeless. He’s forever, we’re not. And He’s the one who made us both.


What About You: Do you take your last breath and your next breath for granted, that it “just happens”? How often do your thoughts drift to God, the source, the real source, of all you see, do, and are? Is your God a great big God?


Encouraging Words: Jeremiah 23:23-24; Psalm 90:2; Jeremiah 32:17; Psalm 139:14