incomprehensible.

I thought long and hard this week, and honestly even struggled, to find something to post about from the devo on prayer. Nothing really jumped at me as something that was worth writing about. Three or four times last week I just re-read the devo, hoping that something, anything, would pop off the page. 

Finally...it did. "He is not an observation for you to comprehend." Dang...to quote Mike Corsetto from a few posts down... "Can I just tap out on that please?" It took me three times reading this to realize just how crazy that is!! The vastness of our God is not to be comprehended. The greatness of our God is not to be comprehended. The power of our God is not to be comprehended. Yahweh himself is not to be comprehended.

I don't know about you guys, but I feel that I am constantly on a quest for new knowledge (especially as a student). I am constantly trying to comprehend the latest lecture I listened to, trying to comprehend the all of the new information that is being thrown at me by professors like 100 mph fastballs. And I think many times this translates over to trying to comprehend what God is doing, who God is, where He is, etc. Sometimes, I think my focus on trying to figure things out ("God what does this mean, what should I do?, etc.") gets in the way of me just communing with my Daddy. He wants us to just be with Him and experience who He is. My focus on comprehending all that God is, often hinders me from experiencing all that God is.

This is not to say that I think searching for knowledge about our Creator is a bad thing, but when it takes away from times when we can just sit intimately with our God, I think we've gone too far. He is too big, too powerful, too great, too EVERYTHING to fully understand. So let's just experience Him. 

And we experience Him through daily intimate communication with Him. Through this intimate communication we will be led even further into the mystery...to "the mystery of the gospel. Christ crucified." Through prayer we will experience, but never fully comprehend, Christ crucified.