How big is God?
Just this week this question pops up in the back seat! "Dad, how big is God, is he bigger than our house?" To which one of the siblings replied, "he's much bigger, bigger than Houston."
What a question. As I was trying to reply I couldn't help but think…Big is nothing to God! He's obviously bigger than our personal world, bigger than the earth and universe, bigger than…we could go on. Shall we? Bigger than sickness, depression, success, addiction, divorce, circumstances, lack of money, too much money… Describing how big only slakes our thirst as we apply it to reality. We just apply it so infrequently or don't try at all. While we can't fathom completely how big, we can start with wonder. Then, what we begin to know can change how we live.
I just smiled at the thought of God's smile and hoped that the question will be asked again and again.
June 6th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
“Behold, these are the fringes of His ways; and how faint a word we hear of Him! But His mighty thunder; who can understand?”- Job 26:14
I read that in my quiet time yesterday, after I read your entry. Sometimes thinking about how big God is, how wide the universe is, or how long eternity is can really almost make my head explode! And really, I only know a fringe of His ways. Maybe an eternity is how long it will take to understand.
June 15th, 2006 at 8:04 am
I guess I need to be more spiritual and read Job more. In fact I’m substituting in a class this Sunday and the lesson is in Job. I saw several students from Roswell Street last weekend and they said you have a blog. Where is it? I also heard from several readers but no commentators…