Indescribable

At youth group tonight, we watched a video of Louie Giglio speaking entitled "Indescribable." Louie is the founder and leader of the Passion movement that hosts conferences/worship events for young adults and is well-known for their worship CDs featuring the likes of Chris Tomlin, David Crowder, Matt Redman and Steve Fee. This particular talk borrows its title from a Chris Tomlin song of the same name.

In it, Louie desribes the vastness of the universe, talking in terms of light years and billions of stars in a galaxy. He effectively uses pictures of various celestial bodies to help convey his message. One of the images is of the earth, taken from Voyager about 20 years ago, at very long distance so that the earth looks like a tiny speck of dust in a stream of sunlight. It was definitely a powerful image of how small we are in comparison to the hugeness of the universe.

One of my favorite things that he said was if the reason that God created the universe was to make our night sky look pretty and to have a place for the earth to be, then God did it too big - something much smaller would have sufficed. But if God created the universe, as the psalms tell us, to declare the glory of God, then it is probably just about the right size!

At the end of his talk, we were reminded that God, the creator of this "ginormous" universe, took on human flesh in the person of Jesus Christ and gave his life because of God's great love for us. That, my friends, is a love that is indeed indescribable!