How Big is Your God?

 

How Big is Your God?

In our quest to find God, we start to accumulate data. Like little computers we store all our information about God via our research, experiences, traditions and opinions. Years go by and the information just get more and more. We start to draw lines and form fixed opinions about how we see God and understand God to be. We can testify of how this has been for us and we help others with these truths. But without us knowing it, we gradually get to the point we think that we can confidently talk about who God is. Without us knowing it, we start to draw a figurative line around God and box Him in according to our understanding. We think linear and there is a 1+ 1 = 2 that cannot be refuted because all our experiences testify of it. But we forget one very important thing. 

We are dust and there is no end to understanding God and how He works. He is infinite and far beyond our understanding. The moment we think we have Him figured out, we fall flat on our faces. Of course we won’t admit to the fact that we think this way. But just wait till someone defies or disagrees with your way of thinking, and you will see how eagerly you hold onto your idea of how God is. I am not talking about doctrine. We have to defend sound doctrine at all times and protect it. What I am talking about is a subtle pride that creeps in that says, I have had years and years of learning this or hours and hours of research and so forth. If we can figure out God, then He would be ipso facto by those mere words not be God. God is too high for us to figure out. We are dust. This is an attitude of the heart that should be guarded at all times. And God knows it, but we forget it. We need to remind ourselves that when we say we know in part that, that part is not 20/50 or 70/30, but probably less than 1%. Not to break us down, but to exalt His greatness. For He is infinitely greater than our understanding. 

When we embrace this truth, there is a certain sense of security that we do not need to know all. That a One far greater than our understanding is in perfect control and that we do not have to be. Dust pretty much only settles down. We need to settle down. We need to look up at the stars and ponder the One who made it and see ourselves in the light of the vastness of His greatness and stand in awe. Because He loves us. The dust of the earth. He loves us. Whilst we look at signs, as important as they are, we must not lose sight of the One who made them for us. Looking from above right into our hearts. 

Jesus said, this is eternal life. That they may know the Father and the one whom He have sent, even the Son. This eternal life is not about just living forever. Eternal life is not just about quantity of life, but quality of life, now. He said, I have come to give them life, and that in abundance. Paul said I desire to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 

May we never grow so comfortable that we become familiar with God and bring Him down to the image we have made of Him.  He wants to define Himself to you personally and if we insist on what we have been taught, we might very well forfeit the revelation of who He is.  This is the great adventure of being a child of God...to know Him.  

Please read:

Isaiah 40:25-28

To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth. Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

Isaiah 55: 8 - 9

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.