Musings...
This area will be a place for people to come together and think. Think deeply. Think creatively. Think publicly. Think profoundly. Or, think simply. It doesn’t have to be inspired and it doesn’t have to be pretty (but please keep it edifying to the body – think Deuteronomy 32:1-3 and Proverbs 4:23-25). Here, I’ll start…
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Paul Sultana on Aug 31, 2009 9:24pm
In my stress and frustration with Monday my mind wanders (with a lot of encouragement from M Baumert) to who God is:
My experiences with God and my experiences of God have always been different throughout my life, but, God is always the same. That blows my mind. How vast and great and indescribable is God that I can never fully experience Him in the totality of my life. I could seriously spend all day of every day “studying” and “experiencing” God here on Earth and come up short when I am 80 years old on a full and detailed explanation of who God is. I think this is both exciting and terrifying/humbling. I can be excited that God never changes and that I will always be able to learn something new about His character, and in turn about who I am and what my life is about. Still, I am scared to death by this kind of magnitude; the kind that, were it to be fully divulged in front of me, would most definitely cause me to explode, literally. But, this is humbling because this vastness and wonder is holy enough and set high enough above mankind that we will never be able to claim mastery over it; over God. We will NEVER be able to be at a place, collectively or individually, where we can say, “I have figured God out… Now it’s time for my vacation!” It is endless and it is ALL of life. And that is terribly exciting.
Jennifer Atkins on Sep 1, 2009 11:44pm
I love the idea of considering how much God is beyond our ability to comprehend.
Sometimes, I get busy and caught up in the God who relates to my life or the way that He interacts with humans. These parts of God are so important: His grace towards us, His love for us, the healing and redemption He offers us, etc.. If I only look at these parts though, I start to see a God whose existence and being revolves around humans.
Our God is so much bigger than that! He is vast without me. He is just without my friends. He is the Most High God without any of humankind. There are so many parts of God, parts that we have glimpsed and parts that we will never understand, that are not at all affected by my vaporous life. Who He is is so beyond me, beyond my ability to understand and beyond my small existence. I, like Paul, am overwhelmed by even the idea that God is so far outside of my comprehension, outside of my limited mind, and outside of everything else I know or understand.
Even the glimpse of this side of God brings me to my knees and helps me to remember that one natural and right posture towards God is simply humble awe.