Join me in a thought exercise.

Background:
People like to say the God is omnipotent. In other words “all powerful”. Without realizing it, I believe that this actually reduces God. How? Because we use our little brains to assign “all power” to God…. more clearly, all of the power that we know and understand. Of course, just by the fact that there are discoveries in physics/science made daily, it is obvious that we have no clue as to what “all power” encompasses. In fact, even though the term infinite is used to describe something that has no end, but we “little-brains” like to even encapsulate that as “understandable”. So, how can we realize just how big God is???

Considering:
1 - God is the creator/maintainer of the universe.
2 - God is everywhere (all and in all).
3 - The universe, for all intents and purposes is infinite in size and mass.
4 - God does not exist in a time-limited dimension as we do (his name = “I AM”).
5 - Whether you are a believer that the Universe is only 8000 years old, or that God created things billions of years ago, the fact that an “instance in time” is infinately small, means that there are infinite snapshots of time from the beginning to the end of the universe.
6 - The “bubble theory” states that there are an infinite number of universes
7 - If God created one universe that runs on the laws of physics that says there are other universes, then he also created the other “bubble” universes.

Then:
- Based on 1, 2 and 3: God is infinite in size and power (non-ending, no-limit, no comprehension possible, no definition can hold Him) if measured at any instance. Thus God = infinity
- Using 4 and 5: God is infinite in size and power at an infinite number of moments in time (since He exists in all simultaneously). Thus God = infinity x infinity or infinity²
- Using 6 and 7: God is infinite in size and power at an infinite number of moments in time in an infinite number of universes simultaneously. Thus God = infinity x infinity x infinity or infinity³

Result:
There is no end to the awe, fear and wonder we should have when we think of God. He is so incredibly beyond anything we could even imagine. There is no box or definition that can hold him.

And they chanted night and day, never taking a break: Holy, holy, holy Is God our Master, Sovereign-Strong, THE WAS, THE IS, THE COMING. Every time the Animals gave glory and honor and thanks to the One Seated on the Throne–the age-after-age Living One– the Twenty-four Elders would fall prostrate before the One Seated on the Throne. They worshiped the age-after-age Living One. They threw their crowns at the foot of the Throne, chanting, “Worthy, O Master! Yes, our God! Take the glory! the honor! the power! You created it all; It was created because you wanted it.” (Rev 4:8-11)

And yet, he cares for us??? A mere “smudge on a window”??? How amazing!!!

Look at him! GOD, the Master, comes in power, ready to go into action. He is going to pay back his enemies and reward those who have loved him. Like a shepherd, he will care for his flock, gathering the lambs in his arms, Hugging them as he carries them, leading the nursing ewes to good pasture. Who has scooped up the ocean in his two hands, or measured the sky between his thumb and little finger, Who has put all the earth’s dirt in one of his baskets, weighed each mountain and hill? Who could ever have told GOD what to do or taught him his business? What expert would he have gone to for advice, what school would he attend to learn justice? What god do you suppose might have taught him what he knows, showed him how things work? Why, the nations are but a drop in a bucket, a mere smudge on a window. Watch him sweep up the islands like so much dust off the floor! There aren’t enough trees in Lebanon nor enough animals in those vast forests to furnish adequate fuel and offerings for his worship. All the nations add up to simply nothing before him– less than nothing is more like it. A minus. So who even comes close to being like God? To whom or what can you compare him? Some no-god idol? Ridiculous! It’s made in a workshop, cast in bronze, Given a thin veneer of gold, and draped with silver filigree. Or, perhaps someone will select a fine wood– olive wood, say–that won’t rot, Then hire a woodcarver to make a no-god, giving special care to its base so it won’t tip over! Have you not been paying attention? Have you not been listening? Haven’t you heard these stories all your life? Don’t you understand the foundation of all things? God sits high above the round ball of earth. The people look like mere ants. He stretches out the skies like a canvas– yes, like a tent canvas to live under. He ignores what all the princes say and do. The rulers of the earth count for nothing. Princes and rulers don’t amount to much. Like seeds barely rooted, just sprouted, They shrivel when God blows on them. Like flecks of chaff, they’re gone with the wind. “So–who is like me? Who holds a candle to me?” says The Holy. Look at the night skies: Who do you think made all this? Who marches this army of stars out each night, counts them off, calls each by name –so magnificent! so powerful!– and never overlooks a single one? Why would you ever complain, O Jacob, or, whine, Israel, saying, “GOD has lost track of me. He doesn’t care what happens to me”? Don’t you know anything? Haven’t you been listening? GOD doesn’t come and go. God lasts. He’s Creator of all you can see or imagine. He doesn’t get tired out, doesn’t pause to catch his breath. And he knows everything, inside and out. (Isa 40:10-28)

It’s almost 4AM and the question comes to mind…. why am I still up? Personally, it’s getting more and more frustrating that I can’t seem to shutdown and go to bed at a logical time. You know, a time that allows me to interact with the rest of the world. I could easily do all the work that I currently do at night, after getting up earlier in the morning. And would my business really fall apart if I didn’t work 20 hours a day? I guess I just don’t know. I do know that if I could become more efficient with my time, I could get as much done in say 18 hours. Then I could go to bed at the early time of 1 or 2am, get up at 8am and have the whole day in front of me. What a freaking concept. I hate this! I guess I need to do a Dr. Phil and figure out “what I’m getting out of this”, so I can quit it once and for all.

Of course the real pain is that now I’ll go to bed and lie there staring at nothing for at least an hour before my brain will shut up enough to allow me to sleep.

Anyway, at least no one reads this thing. I guess talking to myself works better when I type…. annoys less people anyway.