When things get big it is very hard to grasp their magnitude. A mountain from far away looks small. However when you are close to a mountain, it is too big to see it all. The enormity of what is in front of you can only be glimpsed but never truly grasped.
God’s work, His Kingdom, the power of His name, the wonder of His ways, the glory of His presence – the enormity of Him is beyond comprehension – by grace we can glimpse, yet we remain in awe of what can not be grasped.
“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone– while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? “Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place, when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’?
Job 38:4-11