Uncontainable
My friend told me that God is like the ocean.
We may be standing in it up to our neck, feeling each wave, smelling the salt, stretching our fingertips through the undulating water, pushing out as far as they can go, but we have not experienced the ocean.
We have not experienced the fullness of it, or the depth, and if we were to expand and taste a bit more, our experience would be different then what we know of the water up to our neck. If we stretched five feet down the deep waters we would have a new experience, and if we sank to 100 feet down it would all change again, not to mention the width of it all.
It is so vast and mysterious and untamable and surprising.
I have no idea who my God really is.
But He is like the ocean.
And my mind cannot contain the fullness of Him.
He determines the number of the stars
and calls them each by name.
Great is our Lord and mighty in power;
his understanding has no limit….
Psalm 147: 4-5
Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:
“Who is this that obscures my plans
with words without knowledge?
Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.
“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—
while the morning stars sang together
and all the angelsshouted for joy?
Read all of the amazing Job 38 here.
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I’m also over at (in)courage today writing about the wounds that leave us feeling locked up.
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Very deep, no pun intended :-) This post reminds me of the hymn "How deep the Father's love for us"
It's amazing to think that we know just so little about Him and one day we will know him fully and see Him face to face
1 cor 13:12 We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
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I love how you have expressed this. I had never thought if it lile that but, yes indeed! Our God is like the ocean. I can honestly say that I am loving the process of discovering Him a little more each time I search. What always touches my heart is that He is not a God who hides from us. He wants us to search out His richness and beauty and love. Thank you for your beautiful words. I love reading your posts. Have a wonderful weekend.
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:O) Sarah Mae..I'm really enjoying this journey with you. Keep diving deeper, I'm swimming along with you.
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"Such knowledge is too strange for me, too hight to understand." What a God we have! Praise God that He is too great for my limited mind to reach! I was hearing a scientist speaking on the radio last night about new discoveries that have been made in terms of the stars. They now believe there are countless more than they had thought in the past. (How often do we hear scientists changing the beliefs of their past?!…. but our God changes not!)
What an amazing God we have! And 'what is man, that he remembered is by Thee, or what the son of man that Thou, so kind to him shouldst be?'(Scottish metrical psalms)
Blessings, and thanks for posting x
Beautiful. Thank you.
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Sarah Mae, Thank you for both your incourage post and this one. I felt like they were written for me. I just started counseling to deal with "the one." I'm journaling this journey on my blog. Our souls WILL get there!!
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I love this. We do try to bring God into our limited understanding but the truth is He is so much bigger than our comprehension. A beautiful analogy.
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That is so true about God being like the ocean. I'd never thought of that before. I'm so thankful that I can experience all His love and all I have to do is embrace His righteous ways, but thanks be to grace I don't have to experience the fullness of His wrath, as did our Savior and His Son.
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Beautiful post–great writing.
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That is an excellent way to imagine God's fullness, unfathomable.
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Such a good analogy! I have followed your blog for a long time and truly enjoy it! I just started a blog and added your link on mine as a blog I’m reading – hope that is not crossing some blogger etiquette line!! Wanted to share with my friends!
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Christina, no etiquette line crossed it all – thank you friend! :)
Hi Sara. I've never heard this analogy before… and it makes so much sense to my crazy brain. There are many times I've wondered the same: "I have no idea who my God really is." Not an "in awe" wondering– but rather a doubting wondering: "do I even KNOW God?," "does he even KNOW me?" feeling. (I hope you get what I'm saying.) This analogy really helps me to "see beyond" what I can see.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Hi Sarah. I’ve never heard this analogy before… and it makes so much sense to my crazy brain. There are many times I’ve wondered the same: “I have no idea who my God really is.” And not an “in awe” wondering– but rather a doubting wondering: “do I even KNOW God?,” “does he even KNOW me?”. (I hope you get what I’m saying.) This analogy really helps me to “see beyond” what I can see.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Sarah, so glad I found your website…saw the RT from Brooke today…your writing resonates with my heart :)
Just found your site; what an inspiration!!!!!