katSermon Notes from the pulpit:
“If you think only standing in your position, you can’t see others and you can’t see the Lord, God, and the Holy Spirit.
The earth spins at a rate of 1660 km/hr (400m per second). Yet, you can’t feel it even though you are living on the earth because the earth is so big. Even though God created all creation in Heaven and Earth, you can’t feel it or believe it because it is so big. In the same way, you can’t feel how God loves you and all the things God does because they are so big. You would feel it if He loved you only a little bit. Because God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus are such tremendous and enormous beings, it is hard to believe when you’re told, “He loves you” because He is such a gigantic being.
The things big people have done are hard to perceive by small people. They will doubt and can’t believe it. The same goes for the things done by the Messiah, the Lord who is a big person of mission.
When you look at the big mountain while being up close to it, you cannot see the entire thing. The earth too, it’s so huge that you cannot see the entire thing while looking at it from up close, so you don’t know what it looks like.
However, when you look at the earth or a mountain from a distance, you can see them clearly and understand.
The same is true with the one who saves you, who is such a great figure. You cannot fully see him by looking at him up close and living with him.
Only when you look at him from a distance can you see him and realize about him.
If that’s the case, then how can you understand and realize about the great and Almighty God?
God is such a tremendous being.
That is why He sent Jesus to teach people.
When your faith is young it is hard to understand big things. You have to grow up over a long time, then you will come to understand.
Since the Word of God is so big and so great, it’s hard to believe even though you hear it. Only after you read it hundreds of times and take action on it can you believe it and understand what it is talking about. That is why people must be taught continuously.
About God too, we see and recognize the work He does on a small scale for individuals, but when it comes to the work He does for the entire mankind, it is hard to recognize because it’s too large.”
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We know you God from living up close with you, but if we see you from afar we can know you fully and truly. We can come to understand you not just from our own point of view or stories but from hundreds of lives and their experiences with you. That’s why the Bible is so great, because we can see you God through every generation from the beginning to the end.
If I only believed in my own experiences I could never believe in you Trinity. I wouldn’t trust Jesus because I’ve never seen him or lived with him. I wouldn’t trust anyone’s testimony of him.
It’s hard for small people like me to see big beings like you God, but I want to see you fully.
God, you are like a museum, filled with so much history you can’t even grasp or comprehend everything. Even if you spend the whole day there you can’t visit every art piece, or every exhibit. You definitely can’t read every description or writing. There’s just too much to see, admire, and learn. I’d have to visit the museum at least a hundred more times to see everything and then frequently visit so that I don’t forget. Human minds are forgetful so you have to do it repeatedly.
It’s hard to see the history of the world contained in a single museum; imagine how much harder it is to understand the history of God. If you only look from your point of view, you’ll never know the true God. We have to keep searching for your Word. Reading, listening to it, and learning it again and again. Keeping our hearts open to the one who testifies for you.
We have to ask the one who knows the most about you God, the one and only Jesus Christ. He knows your heart, every part of your body, every artwork.
From every galaxy to every star in the universe. From every ocean to every small stream of water. From every human being ever born to the greatest one. From every word ever written, to every stroke of a pen. From every war to every act of peace in human history. From every cloud to every water droplet. From every building to every brick, and the hands it took to build it. You know the tallest mountain and the lowest valley. You know the speed the earth spins, and yet we feel nothing. You know every single one of my ancestors and my predecessors. You see my entire being and yet every cell in my body. So I will trust when you say my image is beautiful and that I am worthy.
God, you are a museum and better than that! You know the history of the universe and my story better than anyone else. You know the history of the Heavens and the Earth better than anyone else. So I will trust you when you speak your Word.
You are God. You were at the start. You are the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. You know every step of each human being.
May it be you who paints every portrait in me, who crafts every piece of my life. May it be you who sculpts my future and adorns my spirit with jewels of gold. May you cover every wall in my temple now and for eternity.
I want to live in the Museums of Heaven forever, that I may see all of you, my God.
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Isaiah 55:8-9
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Psalm 139
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1 You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.
