If, today, I could stand before the Creator of the universe, Jesus, what would it be like? Would I be scared, would I cry, would I be awe struck? To go from the busyness and worries of everyday life to that unbelievable day; the only way my mind would let me try and understand the gravity of it all would be to understand the following story.

 

The six-legged creature held the food high in the air, proud of his own strength as he lifted the caterpillar, five times bigger than himself, on to his back. The work of the colony always kept him busy gathering food, which was a regular part of his life. However, today was different. He seemed so tired of the norm, so tired of the same old home, the same old scenery; his life was in a rut. In his heart he longed for something more. When he looked up, he always could only see thick pine cone trees, leaves and branches inumerable that hid the sky.

 

 He and the millions of his comrades ruled this place, so they thought. Second in command, behind the Queen, he had lived a long and productive life, most of his peers looked up to him. He was a warrior ant that protected the colony and reported directly to the Queen. He knew he was coming near the end of his life for it had been a good seven weeks and not many had lived passed the eighth or ninth week, except for the Queen. He wanted that kind of life, a life that would go on forever or least not yet have to click out his lights.

 

There was just something in him, making him want to explore the whole land and forest. The Queen had told everyone before that there was much more inside the forest to explore but also something outside of it, full of grandeur. Feeling this deep within himself for a while, he set off from the colony to investigate his unbelief in what he was told. After walking for some time in an area he had never seen before, he felt alive in a different way. He saw fruits and berries that neither he nor any of the rest of the colony saw before. There were other creatures and plants he had never seen. He looked around with amazement: It was as if he was in an entirely different universe.

 

Then he noticed a different kind of light up ahead, a light that seemed uninterrupted by the dark shadows. The closer to the edge of the forest he got, the brighter it became, until finally he made it to the end of all the trees. When he lifted up his eyes, the ant beheld a great expanse of light and something no less than glorious in the middle of that beautiful light. When he beheld the behemoth of a rock, words were of no more use to him.

 

It was what the Queen had talked about but no one had believed her. It was what she had described as a glorious mountain, but he had also been an unbeliever that something bigger and better than himself and the colony really ever existed. The glory, the beauty, the majesty of the scene, made him want to well up because of the neglect in his own heart of such a wonderful truth. The peace that it brought him deep down surely could not be found anywhere else in his universe. This awesome entity was outside his little universe of the forest and far better, far greater.

 

Suddenly his smallness hit him, in that he was nothing, the mountain waseverything. It was full of some kind of grace and royal-omnipotence. It was high and lifted up, far above all other creation, where he was low and the smallest thing in the forest. How could he have missed it, he had lived so long, but at that moment realized he had not lived at all, but only existed in a land of shadows. It saddened him that only now he recognized the folly of his life. But now he had seen the light and was in the light and his heart recognized that it was good.

 

He would not waste another day; he would live as he had never lived before. Although he was nothing more than an ant staring up at a mountain range, he knew he would celebrate his new found discovery of this majestic mountain and all it represented in his life, for the rest of his life. And that is just on a small scale of what it must possibly be like to stand before our marvelous Creator. How does your problem, trial, or your own personal pride compare to The LORD God Almighty now? To help others, please share your thoughts and comments with the community.