Maybe He's Bigger Than I Thought

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"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts." - Isaiah 55:9

I read this and think "Yeah, ok." Which really at any point that you pretend that you've got the meaning of the Book, you realize you really have no idea.

I look at this with amazement and am like "Wow. That's what we look like? We're beautiful. We're awesome!"

Then a small awe sweeps over me, and my heart forgets to beat as I realize

This is what He see's.

This video really helps me the Father as more of a reality. This is what He actually sees. It's not a picture or a animation or an idea of what it could be this is it. He sees this from this perspective. He sees above and beyond this. He has the sight to see galaxies away and is only a step away from being there. Yet He see's past these clouds, past the green lights He set in motion to dance across the surface, past the blare of the city lights and sees into our world. My world.

In Psalms 138, David writes that the all the kings of the earth will say, ""How great the glory of God!" And here's why: "God, high above, sees far below; no matter the distance, he knows everything about us."" The very next chapter He goes to say "Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the day sthat were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them." Before I was born, You already had each of my days written in Your book. How intimate is someone so much greater. Does my heart know how do deal with this?

We see in the video these flashes of white like flash photography at sporting event, yet these are storms so devastating that people cry out for salvation. These storms that are so overwhelming to us are but a slight flash in the side of a ball that He looks at. How great is our God? He boasts to Job "Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm?...Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, 'Here we are'?""(38:25/35). The world is like one of those plasma nebula balls/electric balls we see at science stores - where you put your hands the electric lights move to. For this is His power in all the earth. No batteries needed.

It's such an odd concept to think about. I mean it took us 6000+ years to get a running stream of what we look like - and this is the view that He has as He sits back and rests. That this Being that is so far above and beyond our imagination and so much stronger in power than what we can fathom looks affectionately at us. He looks affectionately at us. That the Father looked at this spinning thing He created affectionately and said, "Ok Son, I'm sending you there." He looked at these storms and these lights, He looked into the depths of the utterly most disgusting parts of the human soul and said, "...and I love them." He looked our hearts, my full of inconsistencies, insecurities, lack of faith, altering heart and says "Yeah, I love that because I created it. I created it to be better than that. I'm going to restore it." His love comes down heavy and hard.

"For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love towards those who fear him;" - Psalms 103:11

Interesting that the Bible uses the comparison "as far as the heavens are above the earth" twice. Once it's to describe how much bigger and smarter God is than us, and the second time is to try to explain how much He loves us. Which makes sense thinking about Psalms 62:11-12 "One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that you, O God, are strong, and that you, O Lord, are loving. Surely you will reward each person according to what he has done."

One thing He said, "I am strong and I am loving." I guess that's pretty much what we should know, right?

I think I may spend the rest of my life trying to understand those two things - How strong and how loving?

I may spend the rest of my life, but I want to live as if I knew the answer today.

Just a thought or two.