Billions and Billions of words have been written down about the ocean. I could gather up every single one of them; the most beautiful, vivid, accurate descriptions from fisherman, and marine biologists, and children, and poets, and vacationers. I could read every last, most eloquent word about the ocean to someone who has never been there, and it would never, ever do it justice. There’s simply no way to adequately describe the ocean in words. You simply have to experience it. I wish more Christians would admit that the Bible, at its very best, at it’s most perfect and inspired, is just a collection of words about the ocean. God is the ocean. God is the thing, and the Bible is made up of words about the thing, and those words point to something; to Someone, for Whom words simply fail. That doesn’t mean the words aren’t filled with good and lovely things that give us some frame of reference, some understanding, some insight, but ultimately God is far too big to be contained in those words. God is awe, and wonder, and mystery.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:13:53 +0000
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