Journal 2018

As a child, I was taught the immensity of God. I was not taught the intimacy of God. As an adult, I experience the intimacy but sometimes forget the immensity—Someone who is so foreign and beyond my comprehension. Our minds are incapable of understanding billions of galaxies and a God who lives outside of time. Man is a miniscule speck of dust in the universe, yet God loved that speck, for He created it. We are part of His creativity. We are not equals. We are the recipients of His grace and mercy.

How then should we view God? I Timothy 6 describes Him as:

• The blessed and only ruler
• The King of Kings
• The Lord of Lords
• Who alone is immortal
• Who lives in unapproachable light
• Whom no one has seen or can see
• To him be honor and might forever

How can He be all that Paul states, yet live within my heart? How can He dwell in unapproachable light when His very Spirit interacts with mine? We say we approach the throne of grace, yet Paul says God is not approachable. (When I go to heaven, will He be approachable then because I will be in a different state?)

God is both-and. I recognize that my finite mind cannot and never will understand the mysteries of God.