The God of Greatness
How huge is God? Typically, humans prefer to see God as smaller than they are. We think God is the manipulated, and we are the manipulators. In declaration, we prefer to say that God is greater than we are. Yet, when it comes to relying, we prefer to rely on humanity. Only on those occasions when we “hit our immovable brick wall” do we cry for God’s help.
On occasions, when a human has an honest glimpse of God’s vastness, how does he/she describe that vastness? To what can God’s vastness be compared? To what created “thing” can the creator God be compared? Whatever comparison we humans use will be regarded as laughable in future generations. Whatever is mysteriously huge now will be “ho-hum” boring in future generations.
To be appropriately moved by David’s comparisons, we must return to David’s time.
He began by declaring God was worthy of our highest honor. He started by using sounds. God is bigger than the unending roar of the ocean, or the thunder that can be heard above the noise of the ocean.
God’s voice can shatter the huge cedars of Lebanon. God could make mountains skip and leap. He can shake anything anywhere! Those who see His might honor Him in His Temple!
Nothing is beyond God’s touch! He is bigger than anything we experience! Only He is the source of human strength. His objective is peace, not mere control.
One’s view of God is basically determined by one’s understanding of God’s objective. God’s greatness is defined by His objective. The objective of God’s power is peace, not conquest.
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