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“The depth of our questions determines the bigness of our God.” Now that’s what I’m talking about! Our pastor said that in church on Sunday. We’re in the Book of Acts and the sermon was called, “Faith on Trial.”
“The depth of our questions determine the bigness of our God.” Ahhhhh, that’s just like pulling the tab on a root beer on a hot day. That’s just like a cool, refreshing drink for my soul.
I think a big problem in our culture, in our country right now, is that we seem to think we have all the answers. People are quick to take offense, to draw lines in the sand, and to create division, because we think we know it all, because we think we have all the answers. Gone is all wonder and curiousity, too. In comes anxiety and depression to fill the void…..
There’s an old saying that always gives me a chuckle, “those of you who think you know everything annoy the hell out of those of us who really do.” This is going to sound like the motherlode of all hubris here, but some of us actually do know a thing or two.
Because we’ve already spent a lifetime asking some impertinent questions….
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I love that old saying. Thanks for the chuckle.
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What a great saying! Another good one from someone whose name I can’t place and whose words I’m surly butchering is “the beginning of knowledge comes only after you realize how little you know.” Or something like that….
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Amen, Tricia! That’s kind of like, “all great journeys to the Truth begin with, I am a moron.” I realize that concept can cause offense, but the one time we can be certain we are probably just a few screws short is…. when relating to the Creator of the universe.
Love that verse in Job where God says, “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” Basically, you didn’t hang the stars in the sky so there’s a slight possibility you don’t know everything. 🙂
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I am so laughing. The first recorded question ‘Adam, where are you?’ is m.i.a. and the implications, now the modern day know it alls ask ‘God, where are you?’ and truth be told, He has neither moved or changed.
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Ha! I love that juxtaposition, Colorstorm. You’re quite right. I used to ask that very question, “God, where are you?”
When the kids were small we used to cover our eyes and pretend we couldn’t find them. They would laugh like it was the funniest thing in the world and proclaim, “I’m right here, just open your eyes!”
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I adore impertinent questions! The people that attempt to answer them amuse me. I guess that’s why I love Terry Pratchett and Christopher Moore.
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You’re right about how people ask the trival questions…instead of the big ones
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Amen, good stuff. The bigness question reminds me of the C.S. Lewis quote from “The Weight of Glory”:
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
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Amen, Mel! Loved your wife’s talk about “comfort zones.” My comfort zone was once about making God too small, just as CS Lewis described. Comfortable just making mud pies when He wants to give us the whole world.
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