My God is so Big!
This year I decided to start school again and take some classes at Providence. I took a class that was supposed to help me decide what I believed about God. Going into the class I thought, “This should be a breeze. I graduated from Bible college and I already know what I believe about God.” Was I ever wrong! God is HUGE! I mean, he’s beyond anything and anyone I could imagine! He’s infinite (that means he has no beginning and no end), he’s all-powerful, he knows everything, he is kind, wise, compassionate, and he is good. My “learning experience” reminded me of a conversation in a book called
- Prince Caspian
. It’s from The Chronicles of Narnia, which is a series about a magical world called Narnia, into which some children stumble upon one day through a wardrobe in an old house they are staying in (this story is told in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe). In the land of Narnia, there is a character whom they call Aslan. Aslan is a lion and Christians who have read the stories say that Aslan represents God. Anyway, in Prince Caspian, the children meet Aslan once again and this is the conversation that the youngest, Lucy, has with him:
“Welcome, child,” he said.
“Aslan,” said Lucy, “you’re bigger.”
“That is because you are older, little one,” answered he.
“Not because you are?”
“I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.”
This is how I feel, having taken this class I just took! The more I got to know God, the he just seemed to expand…but it wasn’t like, I learned one thing, God grew one step bigger. No! I learned one thing and then God grew infinite steps bigger! Getting to know God more has totally blown my mind! My prayer for each of you is that you will spend time getting to know God better because if you haven’t realized this yet, we are so extremely blessed to have a God that is so huge, and One who knows each one of us individually and wants us to enjoy and accept his infinite love.
The Lord says, “My thoughts are not like your thoughts. Your ways are not like my ways. Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8,9)
God, the Holy One, says, “Can you compare me to anyone? Is anyone equal to me?” Look up to the skies. Who created all these stars? He leads out the army of heaven one by one and calls all the starts by name. Because he is strong and powerful, not one of them is missing. (Isaiah 40:25,26)
June 30th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I understand, I thought of it like that also. When I was little God was there, he was real, he was magic. But now I want to get to know God I want to learn more about him, I want to be a better person, Because he is fully real, he’s right there and he is extremely magical. Every time I learn more about him he seems at the top of my list.
Just like a new friend the more you get to know them the closer they are to you and then they’re your best friend, or like a dream starting out small the more you practice the closer you are to your dream the more possible it is to reach, that dream is like God he starts out as a small possibility and grows the more time you spend with him then he is your best friend or he’s so possible that you can reach out and grab your dream, God . God’s my dream and I want to reach him.