THE EXPANSE OF GOD

God.

We marvel.  We shudder.  We search.  We cry out.  We receive.  We enjoy.

Or....do we?

Have we the Living God who moves about in both complete stillness and break-neck speed simultaneously?  Or, have we a god whom we have created to fit our wants, needs, beliefs, and religious moods?

The latter is so prominently possible that this could explain why a significant number of very good people say they don't believe in God.  Could it be they would believe Him if ever there was a chance they would experience the Living God over the managed, cut-out, flannel-graph, we-gotta-keep-him-happy god?

I am still learning to be wowed by God!

How many things are there to know, to study, to examine about Him?  How many...millions of fibers and specks and molecules of God information can there be? Every time I learn something new about Him, it seems I've taken a step backwards as such information calls for my undoing of a few things I had misunderstood to this point.

Especially in doctrine are to be nudged more toward Jesus and less toward what the church herd insists we believe.  And especially in systems we are to be attentive to the yet undiscovered manners in which our lives may be enhanced beyond today's knowledge.  And especially in the range of the power of the Cross are we challenged to grow in understanding of the dynamic of the event.

Especially....in so many levels and zones and ideas.

We pass tests and move on to junior high school.  We pass deeper more expansive tests and move on to high school.  We pass more tests and go on to college.  We pass, indeed, more tests and move on to employment where we have specialty tests in order that we qualify.  Life just keeps unfolding with new ideas.

God's ideas are never exhausted by man's conglomerate mindset.  We are always wonderfully short on truth because the real God is so massively, undetectably Intelligent.  We are called to approach Him, seek Him, and learn of Him.  Yet, we will never come close to knowing everything about God.

Our real work is to believe Him.

The expanse of God is so....much!

Enjoy the sheer wonder of believing Him!