What no eye has seen
Immortal, invisible, God only wise,
In light inaccessible, hid from our eyes. Walter Chalmers Smith
Read 1 Corinthians 2:6—10
I notice that the wonder of God is too wonderful, the greatness of God too great, the holiness of God way beyond us. So we often say what God is not, or what cannot be said rather than what can. ‘No eye has seen.’ ‘No ear heard.’ ‘No human heart conceived.’ Even otherwise competent song writers will write, ‘There is none like you.’ Or, more blandly, ‘You are my everything,’ which almost says nothing. But can I do any better? They are trying to acknowledge the vast distance between me and God. Yet it is a distance God himself bridged. He did not leave us with no name to utter, no relationship to amaze us. The amazement is all still there: ‘He calls a worm his friend, he calls himself my God.’[1] Another wrote, ‘Our God contracted to a span, incomprehensibly made man.’[2]
Prayer
The deep wisdom that lies behind and beneath all things, that governs all things, lies in you, my Lord and my God. And has made himself known to me in the one who bridges heaven and earth, who had come from the Father and now has gone to the Father. I pray that I may dwell upon him this night. In knowing him I know your final revelation. And he will reveal more of you. And one day I will see him face to face. And all creation will be consistent with him, and have its own glory in that. And God will be all in all.
[1] Thomas Olivers
[2] Charles Wesley