Many of us love spending time with children who are knee high to a grasshopper. They are:

• Small
• Short
• Still growing
• So cute

We enjoy children’s smallness. Yet, we don’t like to feel small.

Most of us have moments we feel knee high to a grasshopper.

Because grasshoppers are so small, they appear unimportant. People pay little attention to them. Sometimes we feel unimportant. We think no one pays attention to us either. Other people appear:

• Smarter
• Better looking
• More talented

We feel like low man on the totem pole.

We also feel small compared to the size of our world. How tiny we look compared to:

• Mountains
• Oceans
• The sky

In addition, we feel small when we have done something wrong. We think we are:

• Guilty
• Worthless
• Hopeless

Although small, both children and grasshoppers make a big difference.

 Children teach us to:

• Have fun
• Love
• Trust
• Learn

Grasshoppers destroy much we need or enjoy:

• Gardens
• Fields
• Flowers

Regardless of our size, we all make a difference.

Therefore, what kind of difference will we make? Will we spread joy like children? Or will we destroy what we touch like grasshoppers?

God created our world and everything in it. Compared to God’s greatness, we all appear knee high to a grasshopper. Yet, God desires a personal relationship with each of us. How great is that?

“When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place, Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them?” (Psalm 8:3-4 NET)

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