Lord's Day Devotion - God is Immense

"God is Immense." 

 I heard this phrase from one of Alistair Begg's sermons about God's grace.  The phrase stuck with me and I wondered at its parameters.  There are none of course, because God is infiinte.  He cannot be measured.

Trying to define God's immensity leaves us mostly speechless.  By illustration we have the saying, "It's only a drop the bucket."  Or another one, "It's only the tip of the iceburg."  There is so much depth, wideth, height, and core mass, it's all beyond our comprehension and even broadest imagination.

Just think of the universe He created for us human beings to live in.  The earth, and all the other planets, the sun, moon and stars - 'out there' beyond the beyond; it's sooooooo vast!

Think of it.  God plunked it all easily into space, time, matter and energy:  galaxies, stars and planets.  None of us could ever plan it.

Besides His Creator -ness, we could explore God's love, goodness, grace, mercy, His righteousness and more.  Most is inconceivable to us.  How can we even begin to fathom this 'drop in the bucket' or 'tip of iceburg'?

If we're to know God, we must explore the Holy Scriptures

 "which are able to make [us] wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus," 

and more.  Would this be enough to begin? 

Partly.  Begg did mention the word 'experience,' which he went on to define.  Spend time with Him, read and meditate on the scripture.  Listen to Him.  Don't babble on ourselves if we wish to hear from Him.  Then whatever the Lord is saying to us, we need to put it into practice in our lives.

Praying and seeing how the Lord works in our lives, gives us the experience with God.  This is how we can begin to truly know our immense God who loves us.

It's been said that the life of a Christian is not a religion but a relationship with God, Most High.  Building up this relationship with our Heavenly Father, God, is essential to coming to know Him.  We have to connect regularly with Him who first loved us (see 1 John 4:19 NIV).

In closing, I'd like to leave this verse from John, who must have also begun to realize the vastness of God and Jesus.  He wrote,

"And there are also many other things which Jesus did, - the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.  Amen" (John 21:25 KJV).

This is the God who loved us and sent Jesus to buy our pardon and provide salvation for the 'whosoever will' who accept His gift (see John 3:16).  This Lord's Day, as you meditate upon what God has done for us through Jesus, burst into praise as you partake of the broken bread and drink from the cup of wine.  As you reach for these emblems representing Jesus' sacrifice for us, be in awe and full of gratitude.  He is our God of Wonders!

Let's then sing, "Hallelujah!" until He comes.  We will have all eternity to know Him and His immeseness more, not as theory or head knowledge but in practice, experience and relationship. 

 No book can contain the whole.

                                                ~  ERC  February 2026  ~

Based on Romans 8:31-39 ESV and 2 Timothy 3:15.

Sing, God of Wonders, along with Paul Baloche.