Scripture Verse that caught my attention today: 2 Chronicles 6:18 “But will God indeed reside with mortals on earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!
Observation: We really can’t confine God.
Application: For some reason humans love to try to confine God. Although Christians and non-Christians alike denounced the May 21 doomsday predictors as exercising futility, truth be told, many of us fall into that same kind of trap, albeit in less dramatic fashion. We latch hold of a particular verse or view in Scripture and triumphantly use that as the basis for confidently declaring that we know what God thinks. Yet the very moment that we claim to know such things, we are in essence trying to define or confine God. Such is neither within our job description or ability. Solomon had the right idea. We can build a temple for God, but we cannot force God to stay there. On the farm we used to say, ‘you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him/her drink.’ If we can’t do such a small a thing as that…
Prayer: Lord, let us spend more time giving thanks for you and less time trying to confine you. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
(Readings today included: 2 Chronicles 6-7, Psalm 135, Romans 4)
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