Friday, May 28, 2010
How great is God- beyond our understanding! The number of His years is past finding out. He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind. Who can understand how He spreads out the clouds, how He thunders from His pavilion? See how He scatters His lightning about Him, bathing the depths of the sea. This is the way He governs the nations and provides food in abundance. He fills His hands with lightening and commands it to strike its mark. His thunder announces the coming storm; Even the cattle make known its approach. At this my heart pounds and leaps from its place. Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth. He unleashes His lightening beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth. After that comes the sound of His roar; He thunders with His majestic voice. When His voice resounds, He holds nothing back. God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; He does great things beyond our understanding. -Job 36:26- 37:5
Tonight I was reminded of how great God is... actually, I was reminded that I could never know how great God is. The event was so... I don't even have a word (there probably is one; my vocabulary is just too small)... humbling? awe-inspiring? touching?... that I had to share it. Of course, I could never fully express what God reminded me tonight through my words, but I just have to share it in the best words I know how to.
My family and I spent the evening at a local minor league baseball game. It was so much fun! I love baseball and I love my family and it was great to be able to bring the two together. Nearing the end of the game, my mom mentioned that there were thunderstorms forecasted for the area as the breeze picked up. Yet, the rain did not start until after the game was won and the humble fireworks display had ended. It wasn't until we were in the car waiting for a spot in the line of exiting traffic that we began to see lightening, and the rain didn't begin falling until after we had driven away from the stadium. As we turned away from the other cars and down the winding, unlit country roads in the direction of our home, the rain became heavier and heavier until it was almost impossible to see much beyond the front of the car. That is, until the lightning struck. Almost every thirty seconds, the sky would light up and with it all of our surroundings would suddenly appear and then quickly disappear again. Though everything around us was pitch black and it seemed like our car was the only existence, there was so much around us that we were only made aware of when the lightening struck. And when it did strike, I was also made aware of how small I am. The sky expanded in the matter of milliseconds from nothing to something very grand and I was reminded of my minuteness under it's largeness. At yet, I was even more reminded of One even more grandiose than the sky which left me speechless.
God,
I am humbled by the fact that You in all of Your grandness- this word so tainted by our world does not even brush the hem of your being- would choose to concern Yourself we me in all of my ignorance and arrogance. Reveal Yourself to me in new ways everyday. I want to be completely soaked in the joy of knowing You. May I never lose the awe of knowing such a great God! You are great, and I love You in all of Your limitless greatness!
Tonight I was reminded of how great God is... actually, I was reminded that I could never know how great God is. The event was so... I don't even have a word (there probably is one; my vocabulary is just too small)... humbling? awe-inspiring? touching?... that I had to share it. Of course, I could never fully express what God reminded me tonight through my words, but I just have to share it in the best words I know how to.
My family and I spent the evening at a local minor league baseball game. It was so much fun! I love baseball and I love my family and it was great to be able to bring the two together. Nearing the end of the game, my mom mentioned that there were thunderstorms forecasted for the area as the breeze picked up. Yet, the rain did not start until after the game was won and the humble fireworks display had ended. It wasn't until we were in the car waiting for a spot in the line of exiting traffic that we began to see lightening, and the rain didn't begin falling until after we had driven away from the stadium. As we turned away from the other cars and down the winding, unlit country roads in the direction of our home, the rain became heavier and heavier until it was almost impossible to see much beyond the front of the car. That is, until the lightning struck. Almost every thirty seconds, the sky would light up and with it all of our surroundings would suddenly appear and then quickly disappear again. Though everything around us was pitch black and it seemed like our car was the only existence, there was so much around us that we were only made aware of when the lightening struck. And when it did strike, I was also made aware of how small I am. The sky expanded in the matter of milliseconds from nothing to something very grand and I was reminded of my minuteness under it's largeness. At yet, I was even more reminded of One even more grandiose than the sky which left me speechless.
God,
I am humbled by the fact that You in all of Your grandness- this word so tainted by our world does not even brush the hem of your being- would choose to concern Yourself we me in all of my ignorance and arrogance. Reveal Yourself to me in new ways everyday. I want to be completely soaked in the joy of knowing You. May I never lose the awe of knowing such a great God! You are great, and I love You in all of Your limitless greatness!
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