I preached on rest last Sunday and what it means to keep Sabbath rest in our lives. In tackling the subject, I used the illustration of rhythm. Interestingly, what makes a beautiful rhythm or melody are not just the notes played (the musical activity done) but equally important are the rests, or the ceasing/resting of activity in the music. If the ceasing of sound did not occur, then it would be just noise. I related the Genesis creation account to this (on the seventh day God rested/ceased then blessed it and called it holy) and that God has establish a rhythm of rest that we as humans, too often, war against. This warring comes at great cost to our lives and relationships as it was never how we were created to live.

What would it mean to live in a proper rhythm of activity and rest in our lives, that when working together, would create a beautiful sound scape?

This Sunday I preached on the concept of time. Among other things, I communicated that time, unlike our marred concept of it, is beautifully and wonderfully created by God and in Genesis is called ‘good.’ In the process of my sermon preparation I keep coming back to the popular, yet not completely accurate, phrase: “How big is your God?” The reason I wonder about the accuracy of the phrase is that since all matter is created by God, then God isn’t “bigger” than it. God is not bigger than anything, because God created the conceptional nature of size. God would, by definition, be “beyond size.” That does mean, even more profoundly so, that the universe pales in comparison to God who created all that we know and experience.

So…”How ‘beyond’ is your God?“