Grand Standing

“Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool.” Isaiah 66:1, NKJV

A few years ago, I had the wonderful occasion to watch a documentary about the Hubble telescope. If you have never seen the images captured from space as depicted with this amazing telescope, you must do so without delay. Looking beyond the earth’s atmosphere into the vastness of outer space, one can only feel so small and insignificant. The beauty and placement of every planet and star is awe-inspiring. Distances in space need to be measured in light years. According to Google, one light-year equals about 5.88 trillion miles. WOW! My brain has a hard time trying to grasp such information. Perhaps even more perplexing in my brain is the reality that God, the Creator of all things both seen, and unseen has written in His Word, “Even the very hairs on your head are all numbered” (Luke 12:7). What?

If you find the absolute greatness of God mindboggling, you are not alone. On one hand, God envelopes everything on the largest scale, yet He directs the smallest organisms as seen through the most powerful microscope. Admittedly, I am no expert in either science or math, however, I do understand enough to worship my heavenly Father, who knows me better than I know myself; this truth is both awesome and scary at the same time.

When God created humankind, He knew that at the height of our intelligence we would still be limited in taking hold of who and what He is and always has been. No unit of measurement can calculate His size; no AI programming can surpass His intelligence; and nothing can escape His knowledge of what has been or ever will be. When identifying Himself to Moses, God simply said, “I am that I am” (Exodus 3:14).

If something in this writing about the characteristics of who God is has not touched your senses, let me leave you with this thought: The “I am that I am” delivered Himself into the world He created, as one of the most vulnerable among us, a baby. He became one of us. Why? The most obvious answer is because He loves us.