the nature and character of God

Well. Tony Gray was in for three days this week to try and 'teach' us about the character and nature of our massive, indescribable God. Which kinda made me laugh at first. How the 'chuff' can you possibly teach people about God?

Surely He's so incomprehensible to the human mind that it's impossible to do anything of the sort?!
It takes a knowing... from the HEART to expand your knowledge of Him, right?

Turns out I was wrong... AGAIN! I couldn't believe I'd so quickly settled back into the old way of thinking, forgetting that it takes both heart and mind to know and grapple with the concept of God. Duh Anna. Turns out there's more than just a link between KNOWING ABOUT God and KNOWING Him. I'll try and explain what I mean better...

For a lot of the three days, we were shown just how tiny we are in the scheme of the Universe; loads of galaxies and planets, ridiculous distances between everything in space, other things in space (which I can't quite remember the name of) that are mind-blowingly beautiful and perfectly symmetrical in every way etc. etc. YET GOD CHOSE US! He chose US to have an intimate relationship with, to have dominion over the earth, to save us through the death of His own Son.

To be honest, if I was God, I'd have chosen the "Perfect Spiral" - or whatever it's called! I bet it's much more obedient... and fun.

Things like that have never really interested me too much, I guess because they're so far away... and guess what? They're still far away, but seeing pictures of them and the vast expanse that they fill, and knowing that God created them too just blew my mind!

Then we were introduced to God as our Father. The Creator of EVERYTHING... is our Father. W H A T?? I've heard it so many times, over and over again, but never actually stopped to think about what that actually means for us. Imagine, if my amazing Pa (there you go Dad :) ) had created all, and thus ruled over all (and was chuffin' ridiculously genius and creative and loving and merciful and full of grace etc etc)... that would mean that someday... I will inherit it someday (ARGH!). How special does that make you feel?

And that's exactly the same for us here!