June 12

Exodus 3:14 –And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

Acts 17:28 — For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring.

There. I’ve said it. I don’t understand God. Do you? Infinite, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing. All good, all loving, all glorious. Oh, I understand the words, but as soon as I really start to think about any one of them I very quickly reach my limits. How about this — what happened at the creation? The never-changing God created the earth out of nothing. In doing so, He neither added to Himself, nor subtracted from Himself, nor changed Himself.

Here’s another one. I live, and move, and have my being in God. I am a sinner. God’s perfect love and my sin cannot coexist — yet somehow they do. How does that work? I have no idea.

God is like that. Trying to understand Him is folly. Ask Him to explain Himself, and what do you get? “I AM THAT I AM”. I might understand that a little — “I created myself from nothing, of my own will, outside of time and space.” I might understand it a little … But only a very little.

I don’t understand God. He has adopted me. He welcomes me to boldly approach His throne. Somehow, one of His main purposes is to make me like His Son, and to reconcile the differences caused by me refusing to do what is best for me! The Almighty Lord of the universe cares about me, personally. It doesn’t matter what I do, He isn’t going to love me even the slightest bit less than He always has. Now I know me — I’m not a horrible person by most people’s standards — but that still leaves plenty of room for sin. How does that make me worth the affectionate care of God? The affectionate care by which He invites me to call Him “Abba, Father”? Affectionate! It’s The Lord of All inviting me to snuggle into His lap!

I don’t understand God. … but I love You Lord.