Too Small to Matter?

"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:9)

"See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands..." (Isaiah 49:16)

When we look at the staggering size of the universe - or even just at the sky, mountains and oceans, it is easy to end up feeling that we are really far too small and unimportant to be of any real significance. If there is a God, how could he be interested in mere 'microbes' like us?

But to say that is to attempt to measure God by our own standards. We, with our limited abilities, find it exceedingly difficult to relate to more than a few individuals: and yet we can, at times, find ourselves taking a keen interest in the activities of a small rodent or even a tiny insect - and that in spite of the fact that we are fairly sure that they have little or no real appreciation of ourselves.

Yet, if our minds were more powerful; so that we could readily take a much more detailed interest in the lives that teem around us - and if we knew that some at least of those life forms did have the capacity to genuinely love and appreciate us, would we not feel and act differently towards them?