Recognize God’s Wonder
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Yesterday, I drove across western Oklahoma, a drive I make a couple of times a month. Normally, it is a boring drive, and I allow the barren landscape to blur into my subconscious. Yesterday was different, however. For some reason I paid attention to the beauty around me.
The morning sun cast shadows across the golden grasses. A wooden windmill stood silently beside a small shed, the wind slowly rotating its face. A flock of white birds rested on the backs of black cows reclining beside a pond. Yellow wild flowers swarmed around rolls of hay scattered in a vast field. Hawks took up their guard positions at random intervals along the fence rows.
The snapshots caused me to turn my attention to the wonder of God. Nature does that to me. When I consider the interconnectedness of our world and the ways in which God placed it together, I can’t help but be amazed. Birds and cows live in harmony; wind and grasses dance together; flowers and earth cling to one another. Clouds and horizons, thousands of feet apart, unite in a single canvas.
I need to be reminded regularly of God’s divinity. God is Creator and Lover. God is beyond my comprehension, above my ability to understand. God graces me with life, creation, Presence, and forgiveness. How can I possibly ever grasp the magnitude of God’s fullness? In the past weeks I’ve attempted to describe God by using examples and metaphors. I’ve talked about my own children as a way to describe God’s relationship with us. Despite the insight examples and metaphors may give, they are always limited in their expression of truth. Sometimes God is simply beyond our ability to understand.
Since we can’t fully describe God, we say, “God is like. . . .” Our metaphors are lacking, however. No matter how much we want to explain God, we can’t. Metaphors give us one small, limited picture. Examples provide one perspective to view God. God, however, is beyond us. Sometimes all we can do is bow our heads in recognition of God’s divine supremacy. One of the ways we demonstrate our love to God is to simply recognize God’s wonder and mystery as beyond our ability to ever comprehend.
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