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So Vast and Big
God is just beyond us. He's so vast and big that we can never fit him in our little heads.
1 Corinthians 2:10,12-13
Saint Augustine, one of the greatest Christian theologians, was writing a book on the Trinity and understandably, having a hard time with it. So he takes for a break to go out on a walk on the beach, and while he’s walking, he sees a little boy, and the boy has dug a hole in the sand and is using a seashell to scoop water from the ocean into the hole. Augustine asks him what he’s doing, and the little boy explains that he’s trying to fit the ocean into the hole. Augustine smiles a little bit and tries to explain to him that you can’t possibly fit the big, vast ocean into that little hole. The boy responds, and you could never possibly understand the Holy Trinity.
God is just beyond us. He’s so vast and big that we can never fit him in our little heads. We can never fully, completely understand him, but we’re in luck. We read from first Corinthians two,
But God revealed it [The Wisdom of God] to us through his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. What we received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we might know the blessings freely given to us by God. We also speak about these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual truths with spiritual words. (1 Corinthians 2:10, 12-13)
The Holy Spirit, who knows everything about God and is himself. God can communicate this knowledge and wisdom of God to us. Scoop by scoop. Drop by drop. He doesn’t do this through immediate revelation. We don’t get zapped with this knowledge, but it’s in words taught by the Spirit. What the Holy Spirit inspired the authors of the Bible to write. The Bible is not man’s word, but God’s Word. It’s not man’s wisdom, but God’s wisdom, combining spiritual truths with spiritual words. Only through Scripture can we learn what God has done to save us.
From nature, we can tell that there is a God, and from our consciences we can tell that he has rules for us to follow. But only in the Bible can we learn what God has done to save us. Jesus, the Son of God, died on the cross to forgive all of your sins. That’s something that we can never learn on our own. That’s something that the Holy Spirit working through the word can teach us. Amen.
