GOD is Great and Reckless

1-25-2018        11:30PM

Lying in bed where we are currently living we have glowing stars on the ceiling and I was looking at them and thinking how GOD had hung the stars in the heavens and had named them all; but more than that He created the planets that make up their solar systems and the solar systems that make up their galaxies and the galaxies that make up their universes.

While I was thinking about this in the back of my mind without having thought about it the theme from the movie 2001 Space Odyssey started playing, it was amazing.

As humans and as Christians we think too small of GOD when we think about Him. Even our greatest, grandest thoughts fall short of who and what GOD is. Even our deepest understanding of who GOD is from the Bible and from our observation of all that exists and our personal experience, fall short of who and what GOD is. In our wildest and grandest imaginations we cannot fully conceive of who and what GOD is.

This morning in worship our congregation sang two songs that speak into this. One talked about GOD’s love is fierce as a hurricane, the second song talks about GOD’s love is reckless in His pursuit of us.

We think of hurricanes as violent destructive forces so how do we apply that same force as GOD’s love for us? GOD is relentless and there is nothing that can keep GOD’s love from us; Jesus said that no one can take us from the Father (John 10:17-30); Paul says that there is nothing that can take us from GOD (Romans 8:31-39) and Hebrews 13:5 quotes Deuteronomy 31:8 that GOD “will never leave us or forsake us”.

When we think of reckless we think unreasonable behavior or actions that endanger us or others, behavior that leads to great harm or loss risking everything on a gamble. Yet GOD’s love for us is so reckless that He risked creation on creating humanity with a free will; He risked everything in ordaining that Christ would be born a man and live in the midst of sin and temptation even before he created the earth or humanity; He risked all of His creation for the few that would follow the straight and narrow way by believing in Jesus Christ, confessing and repenting of being a sinner and serve His Kingdom in the earth as it is in Heaven (Romans 8:18-22).

As Christians we need to think and understand GOD beyond our understanding and experiences, we have to stop limiting Him by our understanding and experiences, we have to allow GOD to Be after all He Is and He revealed Himself as I Am (self existent), creator, Love, Light, Life, and Truth