It's sometimes hard to wrap our heads around the concept that we ourselves are at the same time practically nothing when weighed against all of the creations of the universe, and yet somehow at the same time we are of infinite worth to our Heavenly Father. But let's talk about Newton’s Third Law for a moment - for every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction. This concept is easy to understand if you imagine throwing a rubber ball at a wall. The speed at which you threw it at the wall is going to be roughly the same speed when it bounces back. It gets a little harder to comprehend when we start talking about gravity. The earth is more or less a million billion billion times more massive than any single person. That's 1 followed by 24 zeroes times bigger. If you divided the mass of a person by the mass of the earth on a cheap calculator, it would probably just say zero. Essentially, we are nothing compared to the size of the Earth. But the really weird thing is, thanks to Newton’s Third Law, even though we are practically nothing, we are still exerting a gravitational force on the Earth that is equal and opposite to the gravitational force that the Earth is exerting on us. As hard as the Earth pulls on us, we are pulling just as hard on it. When it comes to gravity, when two objects exert an equal and opposite gravitational force on each other, it's not so much that one orbits the other but both orbit a center of gravity. That means each of us is in our own separate orbit with the Earth and each of us has our own special center of gravity with the Earth that is different from anyone else's. It just so happens that this center of gravity is inside the center of the Earth because the Earth is so much bigger than we are, but that doesn't change the fact that the center of gravity that we each share with the Earth is unique and special and just our own. This is how it is with God. We may be nothing compared to God. Not just a million billion billion times smaller but literally infinitely smaller. And yet. We share a center of gravity with God that is uniquely our own. There is an equal and opposite force of love and faith and hope from God to us and from us to God that locks us into a single common orbit. The beautiful thing is that this equal and opposite force applies whether we amount to only a single talent or ten thousand talents. As much as we value God and want to pull Him closer into our lives and make Him a part of everything we do, God wants to pull us just as hard towards Him. He loves and cherishes each and every center of gravity that He has with each and every one of us. I hope we all try to focus a little less on how infinitesimally tiny we are when compared to God and all of His glory and focus a little more on the fact that we each share our own special center of gravity with God and it is a law of the universe that we can pull Him with exactly the same force towards us as He pulls us towards Him.
