Mark Jones – In His Dust

From the highest of heights to the depths of the sea
Creation’s revealing Your majesty
From the colors of fall to the fragrance of spring
Every creature unique in the song that it sings
All exclaiming

Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go
Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow
Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light
Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night
None can fathom

This sums up God for me. And yet… it doesn’t.

Sometimes I think people struggle with the ‘concept’ of there being ‘a god’. It’s as if they need to physically see it to believe it.

In the days that Moses was walking about, and round about then, alot of the ‘gods’ people would be following, they would have statues or idols of. Something that you could physically see and worship. The type of ‘god’ you could get your mind around.

That’s the difference between those ‘gods’ and God. In my knowledge, there’s no shape to God. Or form. No end to God. No limits. Nothing you could put you’re finger on and say “this IS God”. See where I’m coming from?

Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? (Nice question Job.) Proberly not. Because there are no limits. No end. God is infinately huger than our little brains can or could ever possibly imagine.

Kinda like when Moses is like asking God what name he’s to go by (or at least I think he does - I have no bible – I’m in work and most likely shouldn’t be blogging!) and God says “I AM”. That’s a bit… vague. Or… a bit bigger than we can imagine. God…is…? I’m now thinking aloud… or cyber thinking aloud anyway.

So… even God’s name is beyond our understanding. Anything we do ‘attach’ to God is like putting words to a reality that is beyond words. We can’t adequately put God into words. We don’t have the capability. No one does?

Rob Bell says: “If we do definatively put God into words, we have, at that very moment made God something God is not.”

Hmm. So… Indescribable?

Comments welcome on this one.