BH Bulletin - Tuesday 16 March 2021

Thought for the Day by Stephen Demetriou
​(Youth Minister)

      God cannot be measured
 
      Our God is so BIG, so strong and so mighty
           There are some things God cannot do.

In our primary school there was a craze of the bendy rulers. Was that just a London thing?
Now, bendy rulers are useless for drawing straight lines but everyone seemed to own a bendy ruler where I was, they were cool and fun. So of course I had to have one too.
I remember getting this ruler and measuring everything. Shoe size, mug circumference, the length of my fingernails – I had my ruler so nothing was off limits!
 
You may chuckle at my sadness (!) but I think it’s a human condition. We humans LOVE to measure things. We ask how tall are you? How wide is that sofa? What’s the calorie count of that Galaxy chocolate bar? We want to know! Because measuring something, it makes us feel safe, we can quantify and compare and it gives us that feeling of control and comfort.
 
Just look at Isaiah 40:
 
12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
    or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens?
Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket,
    or weighed the mountains on the scales
    and the hills in a balance?
13 Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord,
    or instruct the Lord as his counsellor?
14 Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him,
    and who taught him the right way?
Who was it that taught him knowledge,
    or showed him the path of understanding?
15 Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket;
    they are regarded as dust on the scales;
    he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.
 
God measures out EVERYTHING and no one and nothing can measure out God.
Do you see how on human scales He is off the charts!!? There is no ruler big enough, no scale large enough, no tape measure long enough; God is off every chart and rips apart every scale. It’s like Isaiah is trying to depict God’s greatness but struggling to come to terms with it! This is a God we can’t conceptualise; we spend so much time wanting to know measurements but God doesn’t fit into our boxes.
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Clever theologians call this God’s Infinity, nope, He’s not like Buzz Lightyear!! Infinity means limitless, boundless, uncontained, not finite, unmeasurable.
God is not like us, He is infinite, we are very definitely finite.
God cannot be measured.
 
Woah.
Isn’t this incredibly humbling? And a little bit scary?
Let that thought inspire you to humility but also to worship, why not use the words of Romans 11:33-36 to praise and worship the God of no limits. What. A. God.
 
3 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
    How unsearchable his judgments,
    and his paths beyond tracing out!
34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord?
    Or who has been his counsellor?”
35 “Who has ever given to God,
    that God should repay them?”
36 For from him and through him and for him are all things.
    To him be the glory forever! Amen.
Stephen

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Prayer for Alpha

Thank you for praying for Alpha and pleas pray for our meeting tomorrow evening looking at 'Why and how should we tell others?

Thank you for praying for my niece and nephew Josh and Meg ,they've now finished their Alpha but still have lots of questions so do pray on for where to go next.

We showed the attached video 'Great is Thy Faithfulness' at our Office Alpha and they loved it so we thought it may be a blessing to you too.
https://youtu.be/xsgZmAywiio
​Thank you for standing with us in prayer.

Love Judith and Donald

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