-Romans 8:18 [NASB]
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Nanotechnology is pretty awesome. We can engineer tiny little structures that are too small to see, yet they are having huge impact in areas like solar technology, catalysis, and miniaturized sensors. In other words, nanostructures are small but important.
Things like nanotechnology come to mind whenever I think of the idea of having heavenly perspective on life. Looking at life in a zoomed-out, view, the way God would see it, is kind of like looking at a nano-structured material. The features are so small! The bumps and valleys, obstacles and challenges are oh-so-tiny even under a microscope. So too it is that in our lives, maintaining a heavenly perspective allows us to take a figurative step back, and see our present sufferings and trials in the bigger context of God's story.
In Romans 8:18, Paul reminds us that our present sufferings are not worthy to be compared to the glory that is to be revealed in us. This is kind of like saying that a nanowire-sized obstacle is not worth comparing to something like the Eiffel tower or the Grand Canyon - things that are truly glorious and marveous, and so much bigger than a nano-wire. So much bigger and more glorious in fact, that comparing the two seems downright silly.
Paul isn't telling us that life is easy, or denying the existence of suffering. He's writing to a persecuted population. In keeping with the nano analogy, we are probably pico-meter-sized humans, to whom a nanowire is a vast insurmountable mountainous challenge we face in life. But Paul is asking us to consider the suffering we endure in the present, and to widen our minds and consider how much more glorious is the future that awaits us.
This future glory is orders of magnitude away from our present experiences, so much so that if this were an engineering calculation of some sort, the present sufferings would fall off the radar. Nobody has bothered to measure the depth of the Grand Canyon in nanometers, because its size is so much larger that those units aren't even a useful comparison.
So whatever struggle you face today, know that God is with you. We know God is good and we know we can trust Him. He proved His love for us by sending Jesus to live and to die in our place. Thus we can face life's challenges with confidence and hope for a future that is not even worth comparing to the present struggles.
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