Grace Baptist Church

  • Home
  • About
    • Who We Are
    • Meeting Times
    • Location
    • History
    • Leadership
  • Sermons
    • Sermons by Series
    • Sermons by Date
  • Blog
  • Connect
  • Home
  • About
    • Who We Are
    • Meeting Times
    • Location
    • History
    • Leadership
  • Sermons
    • Sermons by Series
    • Sermons by Date
  • Blog
  • Connect

BLOG

Big Numbers

3/2/2011

0 Comments

 
9,000,000,000 and 100,000.  Those are some big numbers.  One of them is the average number of hairs on the human head.  The other is the amount of revenue generated by the National Football League (NFL) each year.  You can probably guess which is which.  Right now NFL owners and players are negotiating who gets how much of the $9 Billion.  The negotiations are actually much more complex, and I don't pretend to understand it all.  I just know it's not going very well.  I understand that investors want a good return on their money and workers want a fair wage and benefits, but when the pie is that big, it seems like whatever size piece you get is more than enough.  (For example, it takes Tom Brady less than one complete pass to earn what I do in one year).
The other number is a bit more manageable.  With some shampoo and a hairbrush you take care of your 100,000 hairs without giving too much thought to how many there are.  A few of them go down the drain; you don't think anything of it.  Interesting to know that something so insignificant that we'll wash it down the drain is known by God.  He knows the number of hairs on your head and on the head of every other person in the world.    That's over 690 TRILLION hairs God is keeping track of right now.  And if he's got that in his hands, how much more the people those hairs belong to?   
So you can chase your piece of the pie or entrust your life to the hands of God who knows the number of hairs on your head.  Which is it for you?
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    When I quote Scripture In this blog, unless otherwise indicated, the quotations are usually from The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway. Used by permission.

    ​All rights reserved.

    Archives

    August 2021
    March 2021
    October 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    March 2019
    October 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    February 2018
    October 2017
    August 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    September 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    January 2016
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    January 2013
    November 2012
    October 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

About

​Who We Are
Meeting Times
Location
History
​Staff
Sermons

By Series
​By Date
Connect

Email our Pastor

Copyright ©2021 Grace Baptist Church. All Rights Reserved.