The smallness of man?
Maybe these concepts are just too much for us to comprehend.
An maybe our perception has been clouded for far too long.
We have to reconsider, reassess and redress our thinking.
But, how?
Where do we start?
We are told that the greatness of God, YHVH, is infinitely bigger than what we can imagine. His mercy, His kindness, His goodness, His love, His affection is ... incomprehensibly, outrageously immense and without boundary. And it is true.
How do I know?
From personal experience!
But in 2 Chronicles 2:6 Solomon, as he is about to build the temple in Jerusalem, declares:
But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
The great Solomon, with rare awareness of the greatness of God.
... and then, having built the temple, he again contemplates the greatness of God and declares in 2 Chronicles 6:18:
But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
Heavens cannot contain Him?
It is interesting to note that king Solomon [pointing to Jesus, Shalom Himself - completeness, absolute peace, health, wellness, contentment, secure, wholeness] built a dwelling place to receive the Almighty God, a dwelling place destined toward intimacy with the beloved (David).
It is interesting to note that king Solomon [pointing to Jesus, Shalom Himself - completeness, absolute peace, health, wellness, contentment, secure, wholeness] built a dwelling place to receive the Almighty God, a dwelling place destined toward intimacy with the beloved (David).
Contain is the Hebrew root word kûl meaning to keep, abide, hold, calculate, receive, feed off.
The pictograph for kûl depicts an open hand to (receive) authority.
The pictograph for kûl depicts an open hand to (receive) authority.
But Solomon's prayer is larger than life
Solomon's prayer in 2 Chronicles is one of the most beautiful prophecies declaring the purpose of the cross many years later.
Solomon's prayer in 2 Chronicles is one of the most beautiful prophecies declaring the purpose of the cross many years later.
When Solomon says the heaven and heaven of heavens can not contain God, he uses the intensive form of the word in the Hebrew for the word heaven.
He says in all creation that exists and beyond ... beyond the greatness and vastness of the expanse of the heavens and wider still ... there exists nothing great enough, nothing with the infinite ability to contain the greatness of God.
The prophecy in this?
He says in all creation that exists and beyond ... beyond the greatness and vastness of the expanse of the heavens and wider still ... there exists nothing great enough, nothing with the infinite ability to contain the greatness of God.
The prophecy in this?
In verse 15 comes the prophecy: Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
Abba God, through Yah'shua, Jesus Christ revealed what the beloved was originally purposed and designed for.
The beloved was purposed for Yah'shua.
But man is so small!
Solomon prophetically makes a call onto Yahshua and will happen beyond ... onto the beloved.
Here is the mind-boggling part. The Great Creator God, Who could not be contained in the greatest of great places - the heavens of heaven, became flesh containing all the fullness of the Godhead in one Man, Yah'shua, Jesus ... revealing the original purpose and design of man ... of God's beloved - us!
It is physical.
And then it becomes spiritual.
God in Man?
Yah'shua, Jesus, fully man containing the fullness of God, but He would not keep all of His fullness for Himself. Jesus explains in much detail:
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. Joh 16:13-15
God in man!
How much of Him abides in you?
How much of Him abides in you?
Just a part?
I submit to you that He abides in you in His fullness! Father, Son and Spirit!
The 100% Holy Spirit is 100% Jesus and 100% Father and He abides in you in that exact same proportion and fullness!
The 100% Holy Spirit is 100% Jesus and 100% Father and He abides in you in that exact same proportion and fullness!
Sure you have a choice!
But if you made that choice to receive, His fullness fills you.
In all the heavens there is not enough space to contain the greatness of our God, but in man Jesus reveals the perfect container (house, temple) (see this post if you are uncertain) for our awesome great, Great God to dwell in!
Oh, HalleluYAH!