The world is yours...

I woke up from my 22 min. of sleep on the overnight flight to Sweden and 3 things became abundantly clear:

1. United Airlines isn't that great... no matter how inexpensive the flight.

2. Flying with a 17 month old is INCREDIBLY TRICKY

3. When life gets you down, look out the window and get some fresh perspectives

Here's the inflight movie I watched on my flight to Stockholm

While I recognize nearly everyone posts this same picture, I was profoundly struck by a new understanding of Psalm 24:1 "The Earth is yours and all that it contains, the world, and those who dwell in it."

I started thinking, "You know... there are a lot of people in this world beneath me, and they all matter to God. And somehow his name will be made great!"  Nothing earth shattering.  No new revelations or clever thoughts.  But that's the great thing about God's promises - they remain true, even if we're not surprised by them or taken aback by the shear intensity of their implications.

1 Chronicles 19:11
"Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O LORD, and You exalt Yourself as head over all"