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Me Me Me Me…
No. It’s not about me. I was just warming up to sing.
Last week my brother sent me a collection of the most amazingly beautiful NASA photos captured by the Hubble telescope. The captions under the images estimated the distances to these awesome bodies in the tens of thousands of light years. In case you’ve forgotten your 5th grade science, light travels 299,792,458 meters in one second. That’s 186,282 miles. Multiply that by the number of seconds in one year, and then multiply THAT by 50,000 and… you get the picture. It’s too far to walk.
But here’s the bigger picture. God made it all. And the kicker – God is infinitely greater than his creation. He simply spoke and everything that is anything burst into existance.
So when the Psalmist says “Splendor and majesty are before Him…” isn’t it reasonable to ask, how is it possible to be in front of a God who is everywhere present? Can we conclude that his splendor and majesty must be everywhere? And when we read that “strength and glory are in his sanctuary”, what kind of sanctuary can contain our God? CAUTION: You’ll explode before you rap your mind around these ideas. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try.
God is good. He has given us a way to hold these thoughts without hurting ourselves. Explode into praise. “Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD all the earth. Sing to the LORD, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day.” Not, me me me me. Him Him Him Him.
Great thoughts, Yochanan.
It’s no wonder we never tire of writing/singing a ‘new song’ to Him, when the Subject Matter is inexhaustible!
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i love the mystery and wonder and even questions of worship. Seems about right as I try to grasp THE GREAT I AM. The closer I get, the more I think I know… the more mystery, wonder, and questions. I think this is a good thing.
Thanks for the thoughts, Jon. Love your writing and heart.
Re: alan
The evangelical church has rightly or wrongly chosen to shun the stained glass, the symbols, the incense, the Latin and many of the things that, in the Catholic church, point to God as a Holy Other and Mysterious. While I don’t favor the idea of painting God as one who is removed and unknowable, I think we could do more to reinforce thoughts of the mystery and the vast infinitude of our God.
yep… hey megan and chris, got this?
stained glass windows it is!
I was hoping for incense.