As I shared at the beginning of the year, I changed my morning devotion time a little. I am not reading a large amount of scripture, but taking a smaller portion and allowing it to speak to me personally. I started with Psalms (one each day) and Proverbs and, of course, am still meditating on a psalm each day. It has been very enriching and sometimes addresses the very issue I have been dealing with or seeking the Lord on.

One of the themes I come back to regularly is the greatness of God. David had such an intimate understanding of God’s greatness. He had learned to rely on God’s protection and intervention since he was a young shepherd boy. He sat out under those starry skies night after night pondering creation and the Creator, fellowshipping and getting to know His God better and better. Over and over throughout the psalms, David declares the greatness of God.

When we use that word to describe someone or something, we may be comparing them or it to other people or something similar. A great book, for instance, is one that stands out from among the rest. Maybe it is recognized and becomes a New York Times bestseller.

Of course, to me, the greatest book of all is the inspired Word of God. It is God’s own love letter to His people, teaching us how to come to know Him and walk with Him. A great person is usually one that has distinguished himself or herself in some particular area — be it sports (think Babe Ruth, Arnold Palmer), as a statesman (Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, George Washington), scientist (Albert Einstein, George Washington Carver), a humanitarian (Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi) and the list goes on and on.

You may know some people you consider great because they have distinguished themselves in your eyes and possibly the lives of others.

I have been thinking about the greatness of God. There is no one to compare Him to — that is why He is called Holy. Holy means entirely set apart, something totally different from the rest. Because we “see through a glass darkly” we do not fully understand what that word means unless Holy Spirit gives us some understanding and revelation. Do you know the one word that is said/sung around the throne of God by the elders, the angels and the seraphim? It is the word “Holy” — over and over and over again.

Someone has suggested that every time they say it they are getting a fuller revelation of God’s holiness and majesty. Makes sense to me. Because we are “seated together with Christ in heavenly places” we must ask the Lord to reveal more of His greatness to us. We will see without veiled eyes one day, but for now His Holy Spirit can enlarge our understanding of His greatness and holiness.

One of the ways my understanding is expanded is by pondering on the many wonders of our natural universe. That has been sort of a hobby for me off and on since I was in junior high school, where I joined the Astronomy club. Our sponsor/teacher would get us together in the evenings to look at the stars through his telescope.

Since that was over 50 years ago, I would imagine that even an inexpensive telescope today would show more than his did then. We have access to the internet and can see amazing pictures of our galaxy and universe that only a few eyes would have beheld prior to this time.

I have also looked under a microscope and also the internet, and seen pictures that my natural eye cannot behold. I must say, one of my very natural responses to it all is: Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. His greatness is unsearchable.