Christ Community Church

When was the last time that you were amazed by your Creator? Were you far away from the glare of civilization with only a billion-billion of his starry worship leaders for company? As you gazed into that velvet, jewel studded, garment synched together by the Milky Way, did you gasp and whisper words of worship? Where you in awe of the One who flung it into existence?

Or was it a storm: bolts of molten silver, amber glowing edges, running through the craggy gorges of the clouds and plummeting, striking the drumhead of earth, issuing thunder so mighty that it you felt its percussive punch against your ribs?  Did the breath forced from you issue in praise? “Our God is an awesome God!”

Was it something more mundane? What about that sweltering day when your air-conditioner couldn’t hold the heat at bay. It soaked through your walls and you imagined that they might start glowing with the dull red heat? But then heaven’s breath came across our blue eastern boundary and dropped the temperature all over Lake County by fifteen degrees. Have you ever considered how inept men would look if we asked them to air-condition a state, a county or even a small town? God does it without effort.

Perhaps, like me, you’ve stood and watched Vernal Falls in Yosemite. The water droplets freed by the sun escape the frozen mountains, trickle, then gather in small columns, then in rushing jubilant throngs leap from the lofty heights. Their courses, whiter than the snow from which they came, form a million hands and beat out a tumultuous rhythmic praise to their Creator on ancient granite drums. The smallest droplets have the greatest privilege of praise, for they swirl in the sun’s illuminating rays writing anew God’s old covenant with man in all the colors that can be beaten out of white light. Does your heart burst with thankfulness for God’s greatest wonder … His mercy?

What do you expect me to say next? Shall I talk about nature’s marvelous ability to reveal the might and power of God? No … I will talk about its weakness. Or, I will let these words from Job inform you. Here is  the reality of those times when you felt so close to grasping the greatness of our God …

Job 26:14

“And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
   how faint the whisper we hear of him!
   Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”