Another quick thot

You know, if I keep posting these little thots then when I'm done with this chapter everyone will think, "Ya, we've heard that before." Well, as I tell my little boy, "Tough-a-roni, Honeycake." This is something I've never noticed before and its just really cool. So I'm gonna post it.

So in this chapter of "The Omnipresence of God" that I'm still working on, I wanted to write about Solomon's comment: "Who is able to build a temple for Him, since even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain Him?" (2 Chr 2:6) And while reading Kings and Chonicles and all that stuff I noticed something really interesting. I wanted to get this quote from Solomon because I didn't think David made any such comment about God being too big. But he did. He just had a different perspective: "It was in my heart to build a house as a resting place for the ark of the Lord's covenant and as a footstool for our God." (1 Chr 28:2) He, too, was well aware that God was so big that this enormous, elaborate temple would only house God's feet!

So ... in two Psalms (99 and 132) when David says, "Let us worship at His footstool" he is talking about the physical house of God. I always thought he was speaking figuratively about an intimate moment with God, but it seems he was speaking literally about a communal moment with God and the saints. Fascinating. Never thought of that before.

Want a perfect little example of the phrase, "beyond imagination". The truth is that God was even bigger than David imagined. God himself said to Isaiah, "Heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool." Just when we think our minds have figured Him out ... we really have no idea.