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The Immeasurable God  





Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting
God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can
measure the depths of his understanding. He gives power to the weak and strength
to the powerless. Isaiah 40:28-29




How do you measure God?

His ways and thoughts are beyond our comprehension. His power is unfathomable and his love just keeps on going despite the misery our imperfect lives sometimes bring to others.

He holds our breath in his hands (Dan 5) and he can count the stars and the hairs on our head.


He was outside eternity and he came into eternity. He made the world and everything in it from his own blueprint by speaking them into existence. The God we believe in, isn’t some being who is a little bit bigger than we are, he is awesome and beyond anything and everything we can imagine.

He is unchangeable in his person, he is found wherever you are, he is always in control of his thoughts, his actions and his speech. He never tires, he never sleeps, he never gives in and he never fails.

He is and always will be. He can see you as you are now, and as you were before and as you are going to be in a moments time and as you will be for all eternity, all at once. God never judges you for one moment of your life he judges you according to the decisions you make during your lifetime.


He will reward you in the same way. He doesn't cease to love you when you mess up, because he can also see you when you are doing well, and either way God is not fickle. God is not one who can be tempted or accepts bribes or can be blackmailed.


He is satisfied completely with himself, he does not need anything, not even us, but he delights in us and it is his choice that he cherishes us in the way he does.


God is almighty and spectacular and yet is interested in your most miniscule problem. He cares when we call out to him and he cares when we ignore him. He is merciful all the time.


His grace is not based on our obedience alone, it just becomes more obvious when we are in his will, because he knows all about us and what is best for us. Don’t limit God, don’t try and fathom him out, don’t say God can’t help me, don’t ignore his ways. God is ever present, ever willing, ever able to bring power to the weak and powerless, in whatever situation.

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posted by Andy Hodson - Saturday, 22 September 2007, 21:42
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Are we really living?  

“If a man has not discovered something he will die for, he is not fit to live”
Martin Luther King, Equal rights Reformer

“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” Jim Elliot, Missionary to Ecuador

“Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it for eternity” Jesus Christ (John 12:25)

What do these three have in common, they all laid down their lives for the greater good of mankind and they will all spend eternity together.

They all cared little for their own life, this doesn’t mean they had a poor appreciation of the preciousness and sanctity of life, far from it, life to them on earth was a million opportunities to share the love of God.

When we read verses like this in the bible, we can become very defensive and shocked that someone would have the audacity to say such a thing, but then Christ could, because he lived it out to perfection and he had the authority as God to say something so outrageous.

Today many extremists will go to great length to destroy their lives for their agendas and causes, this is not your invitation to take your own life, but to give it over to someone else. It is like an all inclusive body transplant, you are the donor, God the Father is the recipient. But the rewards for the future ridiculously outweigh the giving in this world.

If we love our life as it is, why would we need Christ to come and sacrifice his life for ours, Our life without Christ is like looking into a scrap heap, no purpose all broken up and rusty. When we give him our life for his use we become a “new creation”, something sparkling and beautiful, and for a specific purpose and destiny.

Even as believers we can feel unworthy and not valued, we can feel useless and down, maybe it is because we have taken our eyes and our heart of our new life and started to enjoy the old one again.

The old one was never good enough before and will never be able to satisfy in the future, but when we are prepared to stand before God and say “all that I am is yours” we start to find fulfillment and excitement, which lasts far beyond the night.

Its your choice you only have one life on earth, make it the best by letting God mould you and take you to be the person that he predestined you to be.

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posted by Andy Hodson - Monday, 2 July 2007, 08:09
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