On Friday we were talking about...some basketball player. Not sure who. Anyway, he has really huge hands (in case that narrows it down). Apparently his hand is 9 in. long and he has an 11 in. span. Or something like that.
(For reference, I have a 7-in. span and a 6-in. hand. I'm little, but I haven't met anyone with 3 full inches on me.)
Later on in the temple I was reminded of this scripture we talked about in my Isaiah class four years ago:
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? (Isaiah 40:12)Talk about an enormous span.
I like this scripture because it reminds me that God truly is all-powerful. Things that are unfathomable to us (like all the water on earth, or the entire universe) are within His comprehension and His power.
And yet...
This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God. While against the backdrop of infinite creation we may appear to be nothing, we have a spark of eternal fire burning within our breast. We have the incomprehensible promise of exaltation—worlds without end—within our grasp. And it is God’s great desire to help us reach it ("You Matter to Him," President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, in General Conference October 2011).
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