Thoughts on the Largeness of God

Sorry I don't post much... I kind of get in writing moods, and then other times I have writer's block. Someday I'd like to be an actually good author who actually writes. But, to quote Aragorn, "Today is not that day!"

Today I'm just gonna put down a few thoughts that came to me during my devotions. To be clear, I am not a very good devotion-er. While I love it at the time (and I love the effects afterward); I love reading the Scriptures and learning more about the Lord, it is so hard to start. Funny how that is, eh? I've been trying to get it in every day, because I can tell how off balance my attitude is when I don't, and because I want to become more and more like Christ with each passing day. I've made it a sort of new year's resolution to grow closer to God and to read His word every day (although so far that resolution hasn't stood very well. I'm a work in progress). My prayer when I open my devotional and my Bible is "Lord, please show me something I haven't noticed before. Please let something jump out." Sometimes this prayer is answered in a very stark, jumpy-outy sort of way. Other times it is more subtle; the Lord speaks to me quietly, deeply, when I take the time to focus and be quiet.

Today was one of those days.

My devotional is called The Quiet Place, by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. It is geared toward women, but the truths in it are universal. I'm not sure if this is on purpose or just a coincidence, but the book really does seem to bring you into a quiet place, where the daily readings, though just a page long, seem to touch and captivate your soul on the deepest level. It's gloriously uncanny.

Today, for February the 8th (yes, I realize I'm writing this after midnight; it's not tomorrow til I go to sleep :o), the reading was about the first time scientists sent a probe to the deepest part of the ocean: the Marianas trench. Apparently it took five hours for the probe just to get to the ocean floor. That's pretty impressive, but what's more impressive is the spiritual truth that we can take away from this:


     "...Five hours, five years, five lifetimes would not be enough to plumb the depths of [God's] riches,      
     wisdom, and knowledge. He is inexhaustible, limitless, immeasurable.

     "Though we can never reach the bottom of God's unfathomable ways, we do know what it's like to reach      the bottom of our own strength...

     "...Yet deeper than your own limitations and problems is the bedrock of God's faithfulness, power, and  
     knowledge. His unseen, sovereign, eternal purposes are underneath it all, holding everything together -  
     including you... no matter how low [your issues have] taken you, there is always something  - always
     Someone - who is deeper still." The Quiet Place, Nancy Leigh DeMoss.


I just love these thoughts. Often we think of God as being high above everything - which He is - but we also fail to think of Him being deeper than everything. God is limitless, therefore He is not only high, but deep and wide, stretching farther and vaster and thicker than our brains can wrap around.

I'll end with a quote from Revelation 5, 9b-10:

     "...for you [Jesus] were slain, and by your blood you
     ransomed people for God
     from every tribe and language and
     people and nation,
     and you have made them a kingdom and
     priests to our God
     and they shall reign on the earth."

Hanneli