For Wilshire Baptist Church
“Who are we that God is mindful of us?” That is the question King David asks famously in Psalm 8, and a question that came to my mind while standing on a glacier in Canada.
We’re midway through a trip to the Canadian Rockies with some Wilshire friends, and on Monday we traveled high into the mountains to walk on the Athabasca Glacier in the Columbian Icefield. Every turn on the highway to the glacier revealed another jaw dropping vista, and walking on ice that was formed some 200,000 years ago and is still moving was a reminder that the shaping of the Earth is an ongoing enterprise.
It was a day to set aside our small, everyday matters and focus on the big picture, and that was helped by the absence of cell signals. Our technology has turned us into too-clever demigods enamored with our own greatness. But a visit to the ice fields reminds us that our lives are but a blink compared to glacial time, and glacial time is nothing in God’s eternity.
Which raises a twist on David’s question: Who are we that we are not mindful of our God?