He is Greater

   Did you ever sit in church and there's one line in the entire sermon that just hits you and leaves you pondering it for the rest of the day? That was this morning for me. I can't quote it word for word because my attention span is amazing, but the gist of it was, "IF we could describe God, He wouldn't be much bigger than we are." (para-phrased from P. David Fisher at NBCF) When I heard this thought, it just made me want to spike a football hard to the ground and do some crazy child like dance! (Because after all,  that's how we celebrate overwhelming victory in America.) It filled me with all the "feels". (In case you younger and much cooler people are reading.) 
   
   It stuck with me throughout the day because it just made so much sense. If God wasn't bigger than us, we could somehow formulate His very existence. We could put measure on His love and His mercy. We could explain every "why" or "how". We wouldn't need a reason to seek Him because we would already know all of Him. We wouldn't have a desire to grow. In fact, He is above us for us. Let me rephrase. God isn't bigger than us for His own good, He remains above us because His sole desire is to be with us and for us to be with Him. He so desires to spend time with us. He so desires to reveal Himself to us. The deeper we dig in to finding more of who He is, the more we want to know Him. His desire for us fuels our desire for Him in a crazy, beautiful paradigm of love. 

   This simple thought has added another wonderful element of joy to this season for me. As Christmas becomes more and more commercialized and traditional in this world, it's important to refocus the real celebration. Love came down in humble form, just so love could reconcile us with the heart of God.  He could have just sent His word and that would have been enough. Instead He poured His heart in the form of His son. All this from His desire to be with us. We cannot fathom what He has done, because He is greater, higher, and so much bigger than we can comprehend. 

  “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD.
“And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.
For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so my ways are higher than your ways
and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.  - Isaiah 55:8&9    

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