I have been  listening to a CD called “On The Shores” by Jonathan David and Melissa Helser.  One song in particular, “Endless Ocean”,  has captured my imagination.  Click here to listen to this beautiful song.  Better yet, listen to it while you are reading this article to get the full affect!

The words are captivating and mind boggling.

 

“In the beginning, You were singing

In the end You’ll still be, singing over me

In this moment, You’re right beside me

You’re everywhere, You’re in the air that I breathe

 

You are an endless ocean

A bottomless sea

 

In my sin, You kept loving

There’s no end to Your forgiveness, and mercy

Every morning, You keep coming

Waves of Your affection, keep washing over me

 

All those angels, they are swimming

In this ocean and they still can find no shore

Day and Night, night and day

They keep seeing new sides of Your face

 

There’s no end to the affection, You have for me”

 

You have probably heard the saying, “If God was small enough to fit inside of our brains, He wouldn’t be big enough for our problems.”

I had a teacher at YWAM who loved to teach about the limitless intelligence of God.  He was fond of saying with a smile on his face, “I think I’ll trust God because He is much smarted that I am. In fact, His intelligence fills the entire universe, which is always expanding.  And you know, my brain is so small that it actually fits inside my head!”

I have begun to encounter the God whose thoughts are higher than my thoughts, who is never limited by time or resources.  He is the God who can actually create something out of nothing.  Time and again He has revealed some dazzling truth to my heart, something that before that moment of revelation had been a non-reality to me.  So many times I stood face to face with impossible circumstances, yet found the faith to pray.  So many times I saw God do something that had NEVER, EVER entered my little mind and probably NEVER would have entered my little mind in a hundred years.

I heard a preacher once who said, “Every verse in the Bible is pregnant with divine meaning.”  I love that imagery. We can read a scripture and our mind in renewed.  We have something wonderful to think about.  Yet that scripture is a seed that can grow and bear fruit again and again and again, forever.  Ever have God descend upon you like a clap of thunder through a verse that you had memorized years ago and thought you already knew inside and out?  Then He reveals some deeper meaning in that familiar verse, and your world is rocked to its foundations!

We will be eternally learning new things about God, discovering new truths, being undone by greater beauties, being thrilled by higher heights.  Heaven will be full of adventure and explorations.  Yet the adventure is not just for heaven, it is for now!

Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on EARTH as it is in heaven.

This broken world is full of problems.  The earth seems to be sick and dying because of the selfishness and shortsightedness of the very ones who were supposed to rule and steward it.  Yet God has the answer to every one of those problems.  His answers are found inside the hearts and minds and imaginations of His people.  How will His people access these innovative and groundbreaking solutions?  By continually beholding the One who is always showing new sides of His face.  We can never reach the end of Him!  We will never be bored by Him!  It is true that we could never contain Him, that His presence will fill us until it is bubbling out all over the place.  All the trials and struggles of this life are intended to stretch us and expand us so we can hold more of Him; so we can experience more of His endless affections towards us.

I have experienced more love and mercy from my God than I had ever dreamed existed.  I have come to Him with a broken heart and a life in shambles because of my wrong choices and have heard Him say, “You are precious and honored in my sight, and I love you!”

He has lavished His love on me over and over, so much that it seemed almost inconceivable!  Yes, my mind is officially blown. Yet I know that what I have experienced is merely the first rays of sun peaking over the horizon at dawn; merely a small wave lapping at the shore.

Oh, how excited I am to venture into the deep waters and swim in this endless ocean of wonder and intelligence and love…forever!