A whisper of Him.

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell." ~ C.S. Lewis

This morning, cup of steaming coffee in hand, I read this verse in Job:

"Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways and how small a whisper we hear of Him? But the thunder of His power who can understand?" Job 26:14

Job had just been recalling all the wonderous works of God. The heaven adorned by His Spirit. The earth hanging on nothing in space. The boundaries of light and darkness. The storms and the cycle of seasons and on and on we could go.

And yet its only a whisper of God.

We live in the borrowed moments, the borrowed breath He gives us. Acts 17:25&28, "...He gives to all life, breath, and all things...for in Him we lives and move and have our being."

Every created thing depends on BOTH other created things and God to continue existing. We are so feeble. So dependant. Which we completely take for granted.

I woke up this morning and the first thought that I had was:"..Man. I don't want to get up and do the same things today that I do every day..."

I came downstairs and began reading as I drank my coffee..."These are only the edges of His ways..."

We stand with our toes in the ocean of God. Life gets boring and miserable but so often its because we refuse to wade in deeper. When really every breath we have is His anyway. Why not know Him more?

"All things were created through Him and for Him and in Him all things consist." We are held together by Him and Him alone. He is held together by no one. By nothing. We need Him desperately and He needs nothing. He created us and yet no one created Him.

The 6th chapter of The Knowledge of The Holy by A.W.Tozer is about the Self-Sufficiency of God. He says in this chapter, "The blessed news is that the God who needs no one has in sovereign condescension stooped to work by and in and through His children." (pg 36)

He doesn't need us. If every person on earth decided not to believe in the God of the Bible He wouldn't throw a temper tantrum trying to get our attention. He wouldn't lose any of His power. He wouldn't slowly melt away. He wouldn't pop out of existance when the last believer denies Him. We add nothing to Him, and we can take nothing away. He is God, the same forever and to Him nothing is necessary.

He doesn't need us. But He does love us. He stoops down to us. There is no greater love.