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Our God is astounding.

He is vast, but not in a way that is simply a larger version of ourselves.

He is not the giant at the top of the beanstalk.

He is other.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Yet He did not create in the way that we as artists create, taking what is already there and crafting it into something new.

God’s creating was closer to the way we give birth. Out of Himself, He brought forth a completely new, unique, original thing.

Yet even that is not exactly what God did.

We do not craft our children.

God, using only Himself, bringing forth out of nothing but Himself, crafted precisely and perfectly an entire universe.

Sit with that for a moment.

The Lord is a God of knowledge.

God knows everything.

Yet He does not know in the same way that we know.

The most intelligent and well-educated people in this world must learn in order to know. They must study what is outside of themselves in order to know.

Most of the time, we must learn even to know what is inside of ourselves.

God knows because there is nothing that is outside of Himself. All that exists came out of God Himself, and thus He knows all things in a much different way than we can ever know anything. His knowledge comes from a much different place.

Sit with that for a moment.

Sit with the otherness of God,

then praise Him for who He is.

Art Credits: space photos from NASA; all other photographs copyright Made Sacred 2018