INTO THE DEPTHS OF GOD

I am a shallow man.

God's ways are higher as are His thoughts beyond mine.

This does not mean God mobilizes ten feet higher and ponders things twenty yards further than me.  It means I'm not in the ballpark when it comes to knowing God and His style.  Nada.

This presents a wonderful blessing.  While found (saved) by God, we are called to become lost in Him.  I believe too much of the church is not lost in Him but rather tuned in for refined effort to try to manage and explain Him.

We can't....and won't.  We are called, however, to believe into the depths of Him.

Dr. Kingsley C. Priddy was quoted over a century ago, We felt the Holy Spirit had been a real Person to us before; as far as we knew we had received Him; and some of us had known much of His operations in and through our lives.  But now the revelation of His Person was so tremendous that all our previous experiences seemed as nothing.

There was no visible apparition, but He made Himself so real to our spiritual eyes that it was a "face to face" experience.  And when we saw Him we knew we have never really seen Him before.  We said like Job, "I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eyes seeth Thee"; and like him, we cried, "Wherefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes."

The more we see God the less we grow inward and the more we grow up-ward.  The more we see God, earthy discussions and assumptions of the Spirit are forced to pale.  The more we see God the more we want to see more of God. 

May He set the church afire or keep the church aflame (in those places it is already on fire) with a renewed hunger and thirst within us to experience the depths of God.