Me: What a nice day at the beach Prodigal!
Prodigal: Yes, when you look out all you can see is the water. It is so vast and all those droplets of water.
Me: That is a good way to describe God’s Spirit.
Prodigal: God’s Spirit is droplets of water?
Me: No, not exactly but I will share with you from Billy Grahams book Peace with God.
As human beings deprived of the unlimited vision that God originally intended His creatures to have, we cannot comprehend the glory and the magnitude of the Spirit that lies so far outside ourselves. When we hear the word “spirit,” we immediately try to reduce it to our puny size, to make it fit within the scope of our small minds. It is like trying to explain the sweep and majesty and awe-inspiring grandeur of the ocean to a person who has never seen a body of water larger than a mud puddle! How can such a person envision the boundless sea? How can such a person, looking into a shallow, murky pool, fathom the bottomless depths, the mysterious life, the surging power, the ceaseless roll, the terrible ruthlessness of ocean storm or the all-surpassing beauty of ocean calm? How could anyone who had only looked into a mud puddle know what you were talking about? What words could you use to describe the mighty sea convincingly? How could you make a person believe that such a wonder really exists?
How infinitely more difficult it is for us to grasp what Jesus meant when He said: “God is Spirit.” Jesus knew! His mind was not limited as our minds are limited. His eyes were not focused on the mud puddle of life. He knew full well the borderless reaches of the Spirit, and He came to try to give us some understanding of its wonders, its comfort, and its peace.
The Bible tells us that because He has no such limitations He can be everywhere at once–that He can hear all, see all, and know all.
We can’t do any of that, and so we try to limit God as we are limited. We try to say because we can’t be everywhere at once, God can’t be either!
God is everywhere! Look at your day right now and do you see God as a mud puddle or do you see him as that vast ocean?
