How Big is God
Romans 1:20 - “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”
Psalm 19:1 - “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”
These are two verses, among many others, which remind us of how big and how immense the God we serve is. We are not talking about a God who has dimensions we can measure or spatial images we can utilize in telling us how big He is. He is not someone who was ‘made.’ He was there before time began, and He will be there when time ends. He is eternal, with no beginning and no ending. Jesus, being God Himself, said, over in Revelation 22:13, “I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” One writer put it like this, “He is existence, and without Him nothing else can exist. God exists outside of and independent of His creation.”
The writer goes on to say, “We naturally think in terms of length, depth, and height. We feel that, if we can measure something accurately, we can understand it better. So we invent measuring devices; we speak in terms of angstroms, inches, meters, miles, and light-years. But we run into a problem when we try to measure God; we find He is immaterial and therefore immeasurable. He is infinite in every way. God resists quantification and will not submit to our attempts to scrutinize Him, classify Him, and decipher Him.”
God transcends anything and everything and everyone. He created the small, minute atom, but He also holds the whole universe in the palm of His hand. We can’t even grasp the significance of the universe and we haven’t even touched the depths of the heavens. And yet God holds it all in the palm of His hand.
And yet, we have the truth that this God, this magnificent God, this transcendent God is the One who knows us, created us in His image, cared enough about us that He sent His only Begotten Son to come and die for us in order to give us hope and help and deliver us from sin. As someone said, “He is ‘big’ enough to make the universe and ‘small’ enough to know and love us.”
We must worship Him this morning!