This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be?” (Isaiah 66:1)

You don’t know about this yet, but there is a huge hole in the South Atlantic Ocean that covers a massive area from just south of the equator to the northern reaches of Antarctica, and from Rio de Janeiro to the west coast of Africa where the greatest land damage was sustained, losing parts of the coastlines of Namibia and Angola to the sea.

Now the reason you don’t know about this yet is because it happened not in the real world, but on my son’s 21-inch globe he got for Christmas. Apparently there was a little roughhousing going on in his room and the South Atlantic Ocean took a knee.

In spite of the relative insignificance of this, my reflection on this tragedy turned up some useful thoughts. If, as the scriptures say, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool,” that would put the world as far as God is concerned in a similar perspective as Chandler’s globe is to us, where a swift kick could wipe out an entire ocean.

So what good does it do to think about this? When we have a tendency to compound our problems or listen to our fears, or get trapped in our worries, it’s time to remember we are at all times in the presence of a God to whom the world is the size of a footstool. Our problems? What problems? Look to God and you will start finding solutions. Look to Him and you will know what to do. Step out and you will have the power to do it.

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.” (Mark 10:27)

If all things are possible, what are we waiting for?