Orange Moon Tuesday, July 2, 2024 "Vast"

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…

"Vast" 

"Regardless of the real challenges and issues of need we face in a fallen world, God and His immeasurable vastness ever teem as the great reality amid all." 

       

    If we could reduce our star - the sun - to the size of a golf ball, we would have to travel more than 700 miles to reach the nearest star reduced in a similar manner and measure.  As one once said, "This is why they call most of the universe space. "

    "The heavens declare the glory of God" (Psalm 19:1).

    A vast creation speaks to a far more vast Creator.  "The heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee" (I Kings 8:27).  Thought and contemplation quickly break down when seeking to fathom the wonder of an eternal and infinite God.  Interestingly, however, such truth bears powerfully practical impact on our lives.  A primary component of the believer's faith lies in the conviction that our Lord's "greatness is unsearchable" (Psalm 145:3).  Applied to the everyday matters of life, the eternal and the infinite wonder of God help us to find a perspective of peace.  

    "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee" (Isaiah 26:3).

    We rest our minds on God's vastness regarding the measure of His being and power.  Just as importantly, we remember and affirm how present, willing, and able He abides in our lives.  "Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding, abundantly above all we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us" (Ephesians 3:20).  Regardless of the real challenges and issues of need we face in a fallen world, God and His immeasurable vastness ever teem as the great reality amid all.  Moreover, such presence and power "worketh in us."  Such grace may not seem to be the case as we "walk by faith, not by sight" (II Corinthians 5:7).  It always is the case, however.  "I will be with thee" sounds and resounds the promise so vast in assurance of God's working, and so vast in assurance of His loving devotion to our well being (Isaiah 43:2).

    I spoke to a young man recently who chronicled a litany of problems and challenges that confronted him.  I sought to be compassionate because the difficulties and pains of life are quite real and consequential.  However, I also suggested that he view the matters not merely as problems and challenges.  "What if they are primarily opportunities to know and trust the Lord?  What if He has administered or allowed the issues in order to reveal how present, involved, willing, and able He is to be what you need Him to be in all things?"  I did not frame my response in terms of our present consideration, but it would have been appropriate to suggest the vastness of God, the God "able to do exceeding, abundantly above all we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us."

   I often think of the golf ball mentioned, or rather, our sun reduced in size to help understand a universe so much larger than we can contemplate.  However, a vast universe speaks to an infinitely greater reality.  An unsearchable greatness of being and power defines the God we love and trust. Yes, His greatest vastness - His heart - assures us that such truth beyond understanding meets us in whatever we face in this moment to bestow its immeasurable peace upon us…

"The love of Christ passeth knowledge."

(Ephesians 3:19)

Weekly Memory Verse

   And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

(I Timothy 3:16)

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