By: Lauren Thomas
If you’ve spent any time around children, you’ll have witnessed their amusing perceptions of their world. For instance, in the car with my 2-year-old recently, he pointed out a river and exclaimed, “lake, lake!” Next, he pointed to a small rocky hill and shouted, “mountain!” Another example occurred over the Independence Day holiday, when my daughter expressed concern that the fireworks would harm airplanes flying overhead. What amused me about all these statements was my children’s perceptions and the smallness of those perceptions. Children see the world differently because, developmentally, their understanding is naturally limited. It can be highly amusing!
However, after considering these statements, I was struck by the parallels between a child’s limited understanding of the world, and my limited grasp of the bigness of God. Like a child, my understanding is limited. I am finite. God is infinite. I am the created thing. He is the Creator. I know little. He knows everything.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV
I see what is in front of me. He sees everything.
23 “Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away? 24 Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:23-24 ESV
My abilities and capabilities and capacity are small. But He can do all things, and nothing is too hard for him.
“I know that you can do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
Job 42:2 ESV
‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.
Jeremiah 32:17 ESV
I will never fully grasp all the ways God is bigger, better, greater than anything I could understand or imagine. But like a child, I can fill myself with awe and wonder at the thought of Him. I will worship the God I cannot fully comprehend, for He is worthy of all glory.
20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV
Reflection:
In what ways is God bigger, better, greater, than you?
What other attributes of God can you think of? How do those attributes compare to you?
How can you allow wonder and awe to fill you today in a way that moves you to worship?
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