Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance? Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord, or instruct the Lord as his counselor? Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge, or showed him the path of understanding? (Isaiah 40:12-14)

We must continuously remind ourselves of whom God is, or better yet, cry out to Him and ask Him to show us who He is.

I am always aware that my understanding of God is a sketch at best.  As soon as I imagine Him I have already limited Him.  As soon as I speak about Him my ignorance of Him is known.

To say that He is love is to assume too much because your understanding of love is based on your own experience of it, and none of us has ever learned to love the way that God loves and therefore we are always learning His love more and more.  And that is the nature of our journey into God.  We are constantly learning and re-learning Him through the things that he says of Himself.

This Scripture in Isaiah reminds us of how big God is and how great is His mind.

No one can truly understand the magnitude of God’s thoughts, or all the calculations that rage inside of His mind, the many multiples that He considers each nanosecond.

Just think of the trillions upon trillions of considerations that go into our galaxy alone over the course of a mere second. Now multiply it by the 500 billion plus galaxies in the known universe.  My God, how great you are…

It is enough to be known by God.  It is enough that He knows our name.  The revelation that He gives of Himself through nature, through the word and through dreams and visions is precious.  We can understand Him in part because He reveals Himself to us.

One of the greatest prayers is what Paul prayed in Ephesians 1:15-17: “For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better.”

And this is how we come to the knowledge of Him.  We humble ourselves before Him in prayer and ask Him to reveal Himself to us.  And each glimpse of God that I receive adds to my understanding of Him and yet I know that I will spend the rest of eternity in the pursuit of even greater understandings of Him.

There is no end to this journey of understanding.  God is infinite and I am finite.  I am thankful for His protection and His love.  I am thankful that He protects me from His great power as I snuggle up closer and closer to Him learning more and more.

I pray that today you also will always be engaged in this great pursuit of God and that revelation of His nature and love for you will fill all your senses.  May God bless you more and more as you pursue Him more and more.