Psalm 124
Our help is in the name of the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
I have said it before, though I am not sure if it has been in one of these now 124 devotions, but sometimes I wonder what all God has saved me from. There are the obvious answers of course, those things that I have not done because I am walking the faith path in the first pace, the ultimate punishment that is due me for the sins that I have willingly and unwillingly committed. There are also less obvious ones, for instance the consequences that could have been from acts that I have done that have passed over me because of the presence of God in my life, perhaps even the accidents that could have come my way had God not being protecting me. Of course those less obvious answers lead to complicated theological paths. If God has protected me from certain things, why hasn't God protected me from others, or perhaps even more difficult, why hasn't God protected others from what I have been protected from?
You see, I believe in God and I believe that God is in the protection business, but I also understand that the reasons God does and does not protect us are quite beyond our understanding. It is that latter thought that has been on my mind recently, the vastness of God and the limitness of us. In other words we are merely human and we cannot fully comprehend God. That fact, and it is a fact, is a difficult one for me to accept, after all I consider myself a creature of logic and would much rather be able to explain God to myself at the very least. The problem with fitting God inside our logic is that it is placing God inside of a box, a box of human understanding. God is bigger than the box, this is true in all cases, but especially true if the box we are talking about is the human mind. The mind can no more contain God than this devotion can contain every thought that rattles around my mind. The Gospel of John ends saying that if every thing that Jesus did after his resurrection were written down it would fill all the books in the world, and while that may have been hyperbole it is definitely true about Godself, our pages aren't big enough, our boxes aren't big enough, our minds aren't big enough.
+ How has God protected you?
+ How has God shown Godself to you in ways that blow your box apart?
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