Have you ever been in a situation that has completely taken
your breath away? A situation that
has caused you to say “I don’t believe it!”
Some things are hard to believe. Usually, these things are in the extremes. We don’t have a problem with things
that are good, bad, easy, hard, complicated, simple, etc. It is when something is too good, too bad, too easy, too hard, and the like that our
understanding of the situation wavers and we are left exclaiming that we just
don’t believe it.
Those were my feelings as I stood on a boat in the Pacific
Ocean off the coast of Costa Rica.
As I stood, bouncing on the waves, while a humpback whale surfaced less than
15 feet from our boat. I cannot
begin to describe shutter that started in my bones, emanated through my body,
and escaped with a gasp at the sight of this massive creature. Whales are big animals. And next to that tiny boat bobbing in
the ocean, I appreciated for the first time just how BIG they are.
Faith is not easy.
I think one of the reasons we struggle to believe in God is that God is
extreme. God is so big, so powerful, so loving,
and so wonderful that we just can’t
believe it. We literally cannot
understand, cannot fathom just how BIG God is.
God is more than we will ever be able to describe. God is more than we will ever be able
to know. And God is here, with us
always, whether or not we believe it.
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