“Before the mountains were brought
forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to
everlasting you are God.” (Psalm 90:2)
So many persons
have convinced themselves that the God that exists is exactly how they imagine
him to be. He, in the opinion of many,
is something that can be grasped and someone that can directed. I saw this notion expressed recently. In a social media post, a person I knew
decades ago was speaking about missing those that had passed. He asked, “Am I the only person on earth that
misses people that probably ended up in Hell not because they was bad people
but just because they were not Christian.”
One of his friends quibbled, “If Heaven didn't accept sinners it would
be an empty place.” Both of these
comments were made by person who would openly claim to believe in Jesus, though
they would say they do not follow Him well.
Yet, the God that these comments portray looks nothing like God of
Scripture.
Let each of us
realize and come to accept that God is considerably more vast than we can begin
to envision. The pages of Scripture,
though vast and profound, only begin to tell of the wonder that is God. The Psalmist writes, “You have multiplied, O
LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare
with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.
(Psalm 40:5)” And the writer of First Kings echoes this thought when stating, “…Behold,
heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that
I have built! (1 Kings 8:27)” Even the gospel proclaim that the acts of Christ
could not be contain for, “…Were every one of them to be written, I suppose
that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.”
For this
reason, let each of us, today and every day be reminded of the how great is our
God! Let His greatness be that which
drives us. Let His prominence be that
which motivates us. Let His fame be our
every desire and let Him be gloried in all we do. Let each of us live every moment for the God
that is not the God that we want, for He is worthy!