BH Bulletin - Tuesday 30 March 2021

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

    God cannot be fully known
 
     Our God is so BIG, so strong and so mighty
       There are some things God cannot do.
 
C.S Lewis is brilliant. He has written so much gold. I think this is my favourite quote of his and surprisingly, it’s from Prince Caspian!

“Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger".
"That is because you are older, little one" answered he.
"Not because you are?"
"I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.”
Aslan of course represents God/Jesus in Lewis’ writing and he’s touching on something truly wonderful: our God cannot be fully known.
 
Psalm 145:3
3 Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise;
    his greatness no one can fathom.
 
This is what clever people call the incomprehensibility of God the idea that cannot be fully known. This may sound like a bad thing; I mean in schools something being incomprehensible is a bad thing (!) like me trying to wrap my head around Standard Deviation I couldn’t comprehend it so I gave up.
But with God, incomprehensibility is BRILLIANT. It reminds us that He is the Infinite Creator and we are Finite Creatures. If we have understood that God is Infinite (see 16.03.21) He has no boundaries or limitations whereas we are finite creatures then how could we ever expect to come to the end of knowing God there will always be more to know!!?
 
Yes, He’s incomprehensible (we’ll never know Him fully) BUT He is knowable. We cannot know all there is to know about God but we can know all we need to know about God. He’s told us in His Word everything we need to know about who He is. We can know Him truly if not fully.
This makes God very different from us! We can be fully known, and we are, by God.
 
This has a lot of implications on us:

1. We are not experts on God.

 
If you were to go on MasterMind, what would your specialist subject be? Mine might be Cypriot Cuisine or Pokemon?! But there is no one on this earth who could say, ‘God is my specialist subject, I know all about Him.’ God is incomprehensible! There is always more to learn, as we plumb His depths and find out about Him we realise there is EVEN more to find out about like Lucy and Aslan above, we can never master the Lord! Isn’t that thrilling? When you come to church or in your quiet times and look over a familiar bit of Scripture, remember God is incomprehensible there is still more to learn!
 

1. We are not experts on ourselves or our neighbours.

 
We are not incomprehensible. We can be and are fully known by God.
So we need Him to diagnose what we’re really like, to see beyond our feelings about ourselves and tell us the truth. This also tracks for how we think about other people; we don’t fully know them, God does, so we cannot and should not judge or pick fault in our neighbour.
God cannot be fully known, let us devote our lives to the joyful study of knowing Him better!
Stephen

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The Easter Garden Update from Laura Thaxter

Thank you so much to all of you who have contributed to the set up of the Easter garden. Special thanks goes to Steve Funnell, Harold Turner, Sarah Sinden, Carol Head and Kwikfit Hove.
We would love the whole church family, along with the wider community to be involved so do bring a plant with you and use the spades provided to plant it, bring a painted stone or a little cross made out of sticks to leave there too.                                                                                             
As well as this, the garden is there to be enjoyed so why not meet a friend to pray, bring along your children/grandchildren, ask a neighbour to visit it with you or pop in on your daily walk. (Government guidelines apply so see instructions displayed.)                                                 The garden is open to use every day, we’d love it to look amazing by Easter J
Do be praying this garden will be used and point people to other events at BH.
Enjoy celebrating Easter in God’s creation!
  
See video below for a virtual tour of what the garden looks like so far.​

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