1 Kings 8: ²⁷ “But will God really live on earth? Why, even the highest heavens cannot contain you. How much less this Temple I have built! ²⁸ Nevertheless, listen to my prayer and my plea, O Lord my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is making to you today. ²⁹ May you watch over this Temple night and day, this place where you have said, ‘My name will be there.’ May you always hear the prayers I make toward this place. ³⁰ May you hear the humble and earnest requests from me and your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, hear us from heaven where you live, and when you hear, forgive.

 

I was reading this last night and thinking... how often do we really recognize the truth of God's greatness... we feel His presence.. we imagine He is in the church with us.. in our house.. in our car... but solomon recognizes that even the highest heavens cannot contain the greatness and the vastness of our God...

 

now don't imagine I am saying that He is not around us.. not with us... that His presence can't be felt.. surely it can... I think too often I don't realize how great God really is... I can't fathom the emmenseness... the magnitude...

 

I agree with solomon and I pray that God will hear our earnest prayers and requests as we seek to draw nearer to Him.. that He will forgive us our sins.. even the ones we aren't recognizing... that He will lead us and guide us in the way He would have us to go.. but most of all... I just ask for Him to love me... and you.. because there is nothing greater than love... and no one greater to love us.. than God Almighty...