Have you ever been somewhere doing something that seems so perfectly ordinary, but then had a theologically profound thought that made the ordinary thing suddenly seem quite amazing? Well, my dear blogger world, if that has never happened to you it has happened to me. Several times recently I've been blessed with that privilege. Just one instance out of a handful of them took place when I was at the gym earlier this week. I was on the stair climber, getting ready to switch to one of the treadmills. A perfectly ordinary routine in my day to day life. As I looked around at the people at the gym none of whom I knew I thought, "God knows exactly who all these people are. He knows exactly what their thinking right now as they workout. He knows who their parents are, what they ate for breakfast yesterday, what they will be thinking about tomorrow...." My train of thought just kept going, until I had to close my eyes and try to untangle my thoughts before I gave myself a huge headache. I was trying to with my finite fallen mind, comprehend the Incomprehensible infinite God! And it left me in awe of Him!
About two years ago I had the blessing of being in a Theology class. Towards the beginning of the class the pastor who was teaching it brought up the point, which I'm sure has been brought up numerous times of, "you cannot put God in a box." I remember hearing that and thinking, "yeah God is infinite. He's incomprehensible. You can't put Him in a box. Ok I get it." However, this week I thought of that exact point again. Maybe because of my handful of moments like the one that took place while I was at the gym, or because I'm reading through the book "The Holiness of God", with the book group I'm part of. When I thought of it this time I understood more the depth of what that really means. God is outside time. Even that I can't wrap my mind around. It just doesn't even make sense. Then if that's not enough, He is also self existent, and before there was anything He was. None of this makes sense to a finite fallen mind. What I love about it though, is that it displays God's glory! That He is incomprehensible! Blogger friends, each time I have thought about any of this in the past week the result has been that I have felt small, and I have feared Him. Not the kind of fear of being afraid, but the fear of the Lord. Being in reverential awe of Him!
To think that this incomprehensible, almighty, self existent, holy, unfathomable infinite God, who by the very power of His voice holds things together, would choose to save my wretched soul is truly an amazing thing! It leaves me quite speechless, but in awe of Him. So here I am, one rather petite girl, on a planet with 7 billion other people all of whom God knows everything about. He knows all the babies that were born today, and all the spiders that people all over the world squashed with their shoes. He knows all of it perfectly. While, here I am a sinful girl saved by grace with a finite mind trying to comprehend an incomprehensible, infinite holy God. May we all always be in awe of His glory.
"O LORD, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!
From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have establishedstrength
Because of Your adversaries,
To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;
What is man that You take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?
Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You crown him with glory and majesty!
You make him to rule over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
All sheep and oxen,
And also the beasts of the field,
The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
O LORD, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth!"
- Psalm 8
