We are like Ants

Lately, the newspapers are splashed with aerial pictures of disaster areas in China Sichuan (12 May) and Myanmar's cyclone Nargis-hit areas.

Amidst backdrops of crumbled-buildings and rubbles, you can see struggling human beings in extreme angish.

The pictures reminded me again that human beings are like ants, with absolutely no power against Nature and against God.

The psalmists had again and again dwelled on this point. Who am I, Lord? We are mere dust.

It's not humiliating. We are nothing in the first place, so there is nothing to feel humiliating. It's just humbling that, though we think so highly of ourselves, we are nothing.

Thank you Lord that Singapore is spared of these natural disasters.