Devotion

Imagine that you are a fish and you’ve lived all your life under the sea. Maybe in a coral reef, or maybe out in the open ocean. Or even deep underwater in the dark midnight zone. Then imagine you were somehow to travel in a spaceship up above the water to the dry land (Maybe that would make it a landship). 

How would you understand what you see?

How would you ever describe it to other fish when you got home? 

It would be so different from everything you have ever known.

The same is true of us and God. He lives in heaven. We don’t even know where that is. He is bigger and smarter and more powerful than us. In fact so much bigger and more powerful that we can’t even imagine how big he is or powerful he is. There is a technical word for this, it’s called transcendence. Because he transcends everything we know and understand. Gods ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts.

What this means is that God has to come down to our world and shows himself in ways we can understand. He needs to explain himself to us. And he does. God created us and he loves us so he doesn’t leave us alone. He comes to help us and save us from our brokenness.

In Isaiah 45:5-7 it tells us that there is no God beside our God and that he is made known in all the things that he does. God shows himself in the goodness of the world around us. God shows himself in Jesus. God makes himself known through the Bible that tells stories of how he has worked in our world. And God sends his Holy Spirit to work through other people to speak his messages to us and in our Hearst so that we can understand him and know him. 

God wants us to know Him, so he gives us clues to follow. He hides clues and messages for us to find. It’s like a giant treasure hunt. There is evidence for God everywhere and invitations for us to come to him. The book of proverbs says that it is the glory of God to hide things and it is the glory of kings to seek them out (See Proverbs 25:2).

May we be curious and courageous as we seek to know the truth and may we find Him. 

Pastor Joel Cramer