God's Greatness Demands Expression

Who can describe the greatness of God? Surely not I. Yet over and over the Psalms cry out for us to extol God's greatness, to publish it to the world. Therefore, in an act of simple obedience, I choose to make use of this medium to express some of my own meditations upon God's greatness.

I refer to these thoughts as “meditations” because it is impossible to write anything truly definitive on the subject. God is infinite and finite creatures cannot comprehend the infinite. God’s greatness defies definition. Nevertheless, God has chosen to relate to us lowly mortals, and it behooves us to give careful contemplation to the nature of the One upon Whom our very existence depends.

God’s nature transcends gender. Our concepts of masculine and feminine have no bearing upon God. It is important to note that in the discussions to follow, any reference to God using gender specific terms is due to the limitations of language. While in English it is possible to remain gender neutral, this effort sometimes involves convolutions of speech that do not flow well. When that sort of structure becomes a distraction from the point being made, I shall bow to convention and use the masculine.

It intrigues me that the Psalms cry out for us to contemplate the greatness of God when God’s greatness cannot be grasped. God is beyond any terms we can use to define Him. Talking of God’s supremacy seems to miss the point. God is not just over all. God is not just more powerful than anything else. All that is owes its past, present and future existence to Him.