Can we really measure God? I am taking this week\’s matter from Isaiah 44:9-17. I began thinking one day how pathetic my matter could have been had it not been grace. Everything in life is measured, therefore some people think it became OK too to measure God.
Permit me to say that at some point in an adult\’s life, he or she has measured God using tape measure, ruler, straight sticks and compass.
When I was a young girl, I zealously participated in measuring out a god. I was so exited because a god was going to be stationed in my father\’s house, it was going to be easy to reach this god, we did not have to travel far to communicate with this god. My parents and their sculptor were very enthusiastic about this \”laudable\” project, they had invested their money, time and everything to make sure this god came out beautiful.
I can still visualize the sculptor measuring the size of the god, I can remember my parents discussing the king of sand to us that could make a fine mortar that would be pliable, good enough to mold this god.
The job was done, and my father who was very meticulous, examined the job and quickly noticed that one eye was bigger than the other, and he called the sculptor, who saw himself as a superstar, had to return to do his duty well otherwise he would not receive his full pay for making a god.
Isn\’t this amazing? They corrected the eyes, the hand and the legs of the god, and interestingly, they made a wife for the god too.
Looking at this scenario, you could see the Israelites asking Aaron to \”make us a god right here and now\”. We can even begin to see how urgent it became that Aaron said OK, now gather the gold and let us make ourselves a god. I could see them melt the gold and weigh it so that the legs might be equal and so on.
Are you there measuring God? Can you see the foolishness? A few years later, I met with the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. After that encounter, I travelled to my home town to see if there had been any difference in the god and its wife, and or whether their circumstances had changed; but behold, l met them as stagnant, stale, stiff, useless and unoccupied as they were the day they were made by men. At that juncture, I knew that all what I, my parents and their sculptor had done was rubbish plus ignorance equal to foolishness!
Are you there measuring God? Quit ignorance and foolishness. I was involved in the making of a measured god, but what\’s most amazing is that I participated fully in tearing it down like Gideon did in Judges 6.
When we ask God \”can you fix meal in the desert? We are measuring God. When we doubt God and the Power of His Might, we are measuring Him with sticks, tape measures and all that.
Let us point the Light of This Great God to our posterity. Jesus Christ can not be measured or quantified by the works of men.</br?>
