Here and There

I've been investing lots of time here. I love spending time here. I have a hunger for a clearer understanding of God's word. I've been spending hours studying it, researching, investigating, and rereading it. I exert a very limited amount of physical energy but nothing tires me more quickly or drains me more completely. Why is it that when I get up from that chair I feel like I have ran a marathon yet I haven't moved more than a few feet? Why is it that I spend hours studying and yet I walk away with more questions, less understanding and a cloudier view of it all? Just when I think I have a passage of scripture or a word nailed down I am challenged or enlightened in a new way that creates more questions that leads to new answers that lead to new questions. Yes indeed His ways are higher than my ways and His thoughts are higher than my thoughts. It's so amazingly frustrating, tiring and awesome. I love spending time here.




But I experience different thoughts and feelings of awe and amazement when I am standing here looking out my back door. When I spend time here it all becomes so much clearer. Clearly He is God, and He is powerful, and He is beautiful, and He is in control, and I am abundantly blessed and humbled.