“Daddy, how big is God?” I remember being asked that question more than once when my kids were young. The question itself says a lot about how big God is in a child’s eye. They already believe He’s big. Real big. But they want to know how big!
What has happened to us by adulthood that caused us to lose that divine sense of wonder? I can’t seem to figure that out. But I’ll tell you why I call it divine.
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has implanted eternity in men’s hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” (Ecclesiastes 3:11 AMP)
If the Creator of the universe has divinely implanted eternity in the hearts of men, why do we limit our thinking when it comes to divine matters? God is not getting any bigger. At least I don’t think so. However, what should be constantly growing is my understanding of Him. My view of Him should be ever expanding. Perhaps that’s what David meant when he said this:
“Oh magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together.”
(Psalm 34:3).
I remember as a young boy sitting in the church pew, listening to the preacher Sunday after Sunday, and thinking to myself, “This is good, but I know there must be more. After all, He is a very big God.”
I knew there was more, so eventually I left the denominational church I had been brought up in joined in with some people who were looking for the “more.” Don’t misunderstand the “more” to mean something other than Jesus Christ. We just knew He was way bigger than the neatly packaged, boxed up version we had been shown.
At this point, you may be saying, “We’re going to know it all when we get to heaven anyway, so why bother now?” Because that desire has been implanted in my heart by the One who knows all things, and he beckons me to join Him now.
One of the most marvelous mysteries of all is that we can know our God intimately. You see, as a child I was introduced to Him, but one who has truly met this Redeemer can never be satisfied with just a meeting. He must be searched. He must be sought after. He must be known.
I’ll leave you with this:
“To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him.” (Eph. 3:8-12)
You and I have access. Let’s search.
Still seeking and still finding,
Kevin