Did you ever ask, “Where are you God?” Some ancient people would answer: “In the sun.” Others believed that the “gods” lived on Mount Olympus. Some believed that God was in the trees.
This week’s message, “The Heart of God: God the Revealer,” based on Psalm 139, explores where we can discover God. Lawrence Kushner explains: “In Judasim the world is viewed as one world which is material and spiritual at the same time. The material world is always potentially spiritual. For Judaism all things – including, and especially such apparently non-spiritual and grossly material things such as garbage, sweat, dirt, and bushes – are not the pediments to but dimensions of spirituality. Jewish spirituality is about the immediacy of God’s presence everywhere. It is about patience, and paying attention, about seeing, feeling, and learning things that only a moment ago were inaccessible.” (From “God was in this place and I, I did not know.’)
In Psalm 139 we discover a God whose love is inescapable. It reaches beyond the highest heaven to the lowest places of the earth.
Let us celebrate this weekend our God whose love cannot be contained by time or space… a God who is with us, always!
Peace,
Pastor Cathy