Knowing Jesus || The Vastness Of God

Today’s post will be a very long read with the Word and it’s both for those who say that they don’t understand God and those who think that they do.

So yesterday I was thinking about God and I just thought: “oh the vastness of God”!!!

When you think about how amazing God is, it is tempting to throw your hands up in the air and go “what’s the point”!

Just look at this passage:

 

The Lord Speaks

 Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:

^2 “Who is this that obscures my plans
    with words without knowledge?
^3 Brace yourself like a man;
    I will question you,
    and you shall answer me.

^4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
    Tell me, if you understand.
^5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
    Who stretched a measuring line across it?
^6 On what were its footings set,
    or who laid its cornerstone—
^7 while the morning stars sang together
    and all the angels^[a] shouted for joy?

^8 “Who shut up the sea behind doors
    when it burst forth from the womb,
^9 when I made the clouds its garment
    and wrapped it in thick darkness,
^10 when I fixed limits for it
    and set its doors and bars in place,
^11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;
    here is where your proud waves halt’?

^12 “Have you ever given orders to the morning,
    or shown the dawn its place,
^13 that it might take the earth by the edges
    and shake the wicked out of it?
^14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
    its features stand out like those of a garment.
^15 The wicked are denied their light,
    and their upraised arm is broken.

^16 “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
    or walked in the recesses of the deep?
^17 Have the gates of death been shown to you?
    Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?
^18 Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?
    Tell me, if you know all this.

^19 “What is the way to the abode of light?
    And where does darkness reside?
^20 Can you take them to their places?
    Do you know the paths to their dwellings?
^21 Surely you know, for you were already born!
    You have lived so many years!

^22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow
    or seen the storehouses of the hail,
^23 which I reserve for times of trouble,
    for days of war and battle?
^24 What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,
    or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
^25 Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,
    and a path for the thunderstorm,
^26 to water a land where no one lives,
    an uninhabited desert,
^27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland
    and make it sprout with grass?
^28 Does the rain have a father?
    Who fathers the drops of dew?
^29 From whose womb comes the ice?
    Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
^30 when the waters become hard as stone,
    when the surface of the deep is frozen?

^31 “Can you bind the chains^[b] of the Pleiades?
    Can you loosen Orion’s belt?
^32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons^[c]
    or lead out the Bear^[d] with its cubs?
^33 Do you know the laws of the heavens?
    Can you set up God’s^[e] dominion over the earth?

^34 “Can you raise your voice to the clouds
    and cover yourself with a flood of water?
^35 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?
    Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
^36 Who gives the ibis wisdom^[f]
    or gives the rooster understanding?^[g]
37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
    Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
^38 when the dust becomes hard
    and the clods of earth stick together?

And it doesn’t end there, it goes on to Job 39. God asking questions that tell about His awesomeness and see what Job just had to say at the end of the questions:

“Then Job replied to the LORD:
I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted.
You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.’
My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.
Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

-Job 42:1-6

We cannot throw darts at Job. We also have acted that way a lot of times.

I remember when God scolded me and disciplined me on HIS FAITHFULNESS.

There is another passage about God that thrills me too:

^15 Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket;
    they are regarded as dust on the scales;
    he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.
^16 Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires,
    nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.
^17 Before him all the nations are as nothing;
    they are regarded by him as worthless
    and less than nothing.

^18 With whom, then, will you compare God?
    To what image will you liken him?
^19 As for an idol, a metalworker casts it,
    and a goldsmith overlays it with gold
    and fashions silver chains for it.
^20 A person too poor to present such an offering
    selects wood that will not rot;
they look for a skilled worker
    to set up an idol that will not topple.

^21 Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
    Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
^22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
    and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
    and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
^23 He brings princes to naught
    and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
^24 No sooner are they planted,
    no sooner are they sown,
    no sooner do they take root in the ground,
than he blows on them and they wither,
    and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

^25 “To whom will you compare me?
    Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
^26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:
    Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one
    and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
    not one of them is missing.

Sorry, I told you, lots of Bible passages today, it’s a Bible study after all 🙂

So you read stuff like the above and you marvel… But why does this God want to know me?

And a better question is “how can I ever get to know Him?”

So here is our rescue:

“I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.”

-Ephesians 5:17

You see, it takes God to know God.

Flesh has nothing on this; you have to literally ask Him for His Spirit so as to know Him.

Remember this:

“For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.”

-1Corinthians 2:11

Only by the Spirit… by His revelation and wisdom can we know God.

So we pray as Paul prayed all those years ago:

Lord, please give me the Spirit of wisdom and revelation so that I may know you better

This to my mind is one of the greatest prayer we can ever pray.

Lord help us all.

Till our next Online Bible Study,

Love,

Frances

P;S: Please don’t get all “Frances you know the word” when you read this. I also have to read the Bible studies on here on the blog. Trust me, I am not this brilliant at remembering Bible passages. It is the Spirit. ALL GOD.

Thank you Jesus. But still we are crying out for more. To come up higher.