Saw my cardiologist today, we will be scheduling some tests, etc. over the next few weeks.  I have an appointment with my Urologist Tuesday, in preparation for the following week’s surgery to be done on the 27th. 

We are moving along, hopefully we will get this body repaired and in working order as it should, in a few months. 

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

I awoke in the o-dark-thirty moments this morning and started thinking about God.  I started thinking, how big is God?  Does He sit somewhere where He can just reach out and touch any part of His creation – like planets and stars in galaxies we have yet to see?  Does He hover over His creation like a parent with a toddler?

The first chapter of Genesis pretty well states that God created everything, in six days.  I accept that fact.  I believe that He is capable of doing that and anything else He wishes to do.

He is the Creator, He is the Lord my God and He is my hope for everlasting life with Him through His Son Jesus Christ.

Colossians 1:15-17 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

¹⁶ For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

¹⁷ And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

God is God.  God is the Creator of all things.  Searching the scriptures we find many attributes of God, Love, Grace, anger, overseer, wise, compassionate, powerful, protector, healer, miracle worker, guide to name just a few.

God is invisible.  When I look at the vast sky with all the stars I can see and I know there are many more out there that I cannot see I ask, how ‘big’ is God?  How does He reach out to all those planets and stars?  When we try to describe God we use his attributes because no one has ever seen God, Himself.

I look around me at the world and I see the intricacies of it, from the grass to the trees to the animals scampering about, to the land about me, all were created, all are because He is.

We know that in all these creations there are minute cells we cannot see with the naked eye that are the essence of the item whether it be plant or animal.  Each and every one; everything we see is made up of much smaller things, that are made up of even smaller things all designed to become and serve the animal or plant we see. 

They are complicated, and the more man learns, the more he finds out that nothing in this world is simple – even that single cell we were told was ‘just’ a cell, has intricate designs within it.

Is God as big as the elephant – bigger - or as small as the tit-mouse? 

How can we fully describe God?  His attributes are insufficient; the words man uses cannot possibly cover who He is and what He does and is capable of doing.  Creator is an all-encompassing word, but it is not adequate to describe the detail He went to in creating everything.  But those words are all we can really understand.

There are the large creatures, elephants, bears and elk; smaller creatures dogs and cats; smaller creatures the mouse, the butterfly.  Some delicate like the butterfly others rough and tough like the elephant.  Each has those minute cells within them – cells for the bones, skin, muscles, etc.  Everything intricately related to each other to make and serve the whole.

Then you look at man and all the things he can do, physical and mental and we think it really is incredible – how can man be so much more complicated than the rest of the creation?  He is, because man is special to God.

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

But not only did He create all things, He is concerned about His creation.   He didn’t create and forget; He created and is involved in His creation. 

Luke 12:6-7 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

⁷ But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

How does God possibly do all this?  How can one Being know all things and be concerned for all things?

He is prayed to by millions of people at any given moment, how does He hear all those prayers?  How does he separate one from another?

I have no direct answer, nor does He mean for us to have an answer for all that He is: 

Isaiah 55:7-9  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

⁹ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

He is God, and we must have the faith that He can do what He says He can do, even if we do not understand.

That is not just a ‘cop out’ so that we will just take it by faith and not question Him.  It is not an arrogant statement like we hear from so many intellectuals or people in power that look down their noses at the ‘common folk’ because we are too stupid to understand what ‘they know.’ 

He has and does demonstrate His abilities daily throughout the world.  While we cannot begin to fully fathom all God can do, nor how He can do it, we do have some examples of what man is and has done on a much MUCH smaller scale.  There is some correlation, especially since we are created by God in His image.

First man’s brains are capable of doing a number of things that in a small way mimic God’s abilities.  Our brains command parts of our body that work in automatic mode, if our brains shut down so do those organs – heart, liver, lungs, etc.  Other things are somewhat automatic, such as seeing, tasting, hearing, feeling, but the brain exercises control and determines in what order or what is the important thing.  We open our eyes and we see, but what we need to see and what we need to focus on – we can made that decision.  No other creature has anywhere near the attributes God breathed into man; yes there are similarities, but man is special.  God is much like man – we are created in HIS image.

Second, man has computers and other devices that can multiply man’s abilities.  I send an e-mail out from here; it goes to other people in a matter of tenths of seconds.  Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world can be contacted within seconds at the very same time using this method.

We have the ability to talk to several people at the same time using modern technology by the different software programs available to us.  We can not only talk to them we can see them as we talk and listen to them, through various computer programs.

There are instruments that can monitor every e-mail, every text sent out over the internet; that can monitor and listen into calls that are made.  Millions of messages a day go out – and, they go out to the proper recipient.

It always amazes me when I see cables made up of hundreds of small wires – and each wire leads to somewhere – and the electrician or technician can trace out those wires so if damaged they can be put back into new condition.

Mom used to work in the office of the local telephone exchange in Redmond.  As a young boy, I can remember going back into the exchange area and seeing several operators working in front of this massive board and using wires to connect the different phone calls.  To me it was like magic, I couldn’t see how they knew which hole to put the wire in, there were dozens of wires and holes before each operator.  Each operator had the same equipment – when you made a call you might talk with one operator one time and a different one the next time but they managed to get you connected to the right person – from all over the world.

Today, it is done by computers, faster and more accurate.  The amount of information is unbelievable, accessing that information via the internet in a matter of second is also incredible.  Not that it is all accurate, of course, but it is available now when 20 years ago it was mainly a dream.

Computers and software are getting more sophisticated by the day, while that does not begin to accomplish the things God is capable of, it does give us some ideas that things thought impossible a few short years ago are now done without giving any thought to it.  A person, with a mind far superior to mine – at least in this area – has created these things.

If man can do that how much more can God do, with His mind, than we can begin to understand?

But how big is He, what does He look like?  We know He is a spirit, but what does that mean in ‘physical’ attributes?  He has shown that to us, if not exactly - then in a manner that we have some idea.

John 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?

Neither God nor Jesus is a mythical creature; His Word has proven archeological and historical value, evidence supports their existence.  The Bible records the activities of real people in a real land – not some ‘other worldly’ man defined space or time.

The miracles, the activities of God are facts that were done in the presence of those who wrote the Word – inspired by Him.  While man strives to place ‘natural phenomenon’ as the basis for the miracles, the writers were either at the scene or were given the information handed down from father to son in a very exact way.  What they saw, what they experienced, what they were told by God, they recorded.

God has given us glimpses of things to come.  We know these things are valid because in other times, when He told the prophets what to preach and write, many of those prophecies have been filled.  As now, time was man’s way of trying to figure out when they would happen, but God has His own timing – we figure time in minutes, hours, days, weeks and years.  He looks at it from an eternity stand point and our timing is not His.  We get frustrated when we don’t see immediate results, He is much more patient.  He does not measure time as we do.

How big, physically, is not important, how He does what He does is not important, what is important is that God is God;  God loves us so much that He gave Jesus, His only Son, to be sacrificed for our salvation and that He continues to love and care for us – forever.

Later, Art :-)

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