Original source: http://www.backtothebible.org/index.php/devotions/authors/lessons_on_living_kroll.html
"Can you search out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty?"
A Big God
As the people of Job's day walked the earth, they likely didn't know
that our world is 8,000 miles in diameter, with approximately
198,980,000 square miles on its surface. It is unlikely that they
realized that this globe we call home is composed of 264 billion cubic
miles. Most surely it was beyond their knowledge to compute that even
though Earth is big, Saturn is 995 times bigger and Jupiter is 1,281
times bigger still. Furthermore, they had no inkling that beyond the few
stars they could see there were at least 300 billion more.
Yet even without the benefit of all these mind-boggling figures, the
people of Job's day knew that God, the Creator of all they saw, was
bigger than anything they could comprehend. Zophar the Naamathite, one
of Job's friends, was right when he said that no one could plumb God's
depths or find God's limits. His thoughts run deeper than any human
wisdom; His power outstrips man's best efforts.
Some people object to the concept of God because He is beyond their
ability to understand. They argue that if they can't comprehend Him,
then certainly He must not exist. Others simply dismiss Him as
irrelevant because He fails to act as they feel He should. Yet God says,
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher
than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts" (Isa. 55:9). Who is man to try to whittle God down to what he can understand?
Let God be God. Don't try to shrink Him down to fit neatly within
your scheme of things. If He were small enough for you to comprehend, He
wouldn't be big enough for you to worship. The fact that He is beyond
your understanding is confirmation that no situation will ever exceed
His ability to handle it. To live confidently, you don't have to
understand God--you just have to trust Him.
Only small people insist on a small God.
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