Part of my "Whimsical List" is seeing God in different types of literature, such as poetry. This hasn't been easy, mainly because there is a lot of poetry I don't get and as I read it my mind wonders to stuff like "why do kids eat their boogers but won't eat their vegetables?" But I'm sticking with it because I have come across some poetry that reaches my very core. Donald Miller writes in one of his books that the reason we find poetry in the Bible is to explain what cannot be explained my mere facts.
Now I'm not bashing systematic theology, it was one of my favorite classes when I was in college; and I'm not bashing people who think more on the side of facts and reasoning. There are a lot of Truths in the Bible that are describe in fact, one of the most beautiful Truths in the world, that God would send His only Son to Earth to die for you and me on a cross. What I'm saying is, for me when I started focusing only on fact, when I made everything black and white, a lot of things about God didn't make sense to me. When I started thinking of God in a "facts only" type of mind set, a lot of the beauty of our complex and wonderful Creator slipped away. Idea's such as how I could tremble in His holly presence and at the same time feel completely safe in His mercy and love. Like trying to describe the way the sun rise seems to illuminate the morning dew, the same beauty of a life with Christ cannot be fully justified with facts alone.
Our God is bigger than the words we use, or the facts we know can hold. My prayer is that we don't get so caught up in knowing everything, but rejoice in the fact that we serve a great God who lets us know what we need to know. May we allow ourselves to be swept away by mystery that is God's love.
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