3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable (Psalm 145:3).
God is great, God is good….These are words we have spoken as a prayer before meals since childhood. But what does it really mean that God is great? To begin with, it is certainly a statement of fact that God is great. So we are stating truth when say that God is great. We praise God through stating the fact of His greatness. A profound part of this praise is that we acknowledge that the Creator is supreme and that we are in submission to Him. The distinction between the Creator and the created is, in part, a distinction of greatness. It is also a distinction of understanding. We can only know in part and incompletely. So, our understanding of the greatness of God is partial is beyond our complete human comprehension. When we call God great, we are expressing a sense of wonder and amazement, the extent of which we only partially understand. And this then becomes praise. It is praise for God’s amazing greatness, beyond all our collective understanding and power. God is great.
God is great, God is good….These are words we have spoken as a prayer before meals since childhood. But what does it really mean that God is great? To begin with, it is certainly a statement of fact that God is great. So we are stating truth when say that God is great. We praise God through stating the fact of His greatness. A profound part of this praise is that we acknowledge that the Creator is supreme and that we are in submission to Him. The distinction between the Creator and the created is, in part, a distinction of greatness. It is also a distinction of understanding. We can only know in part and incompletely. So, our understanding of the greatness of God is partial is beyond our complete human comprehension. When we call God great, we are expressing a sense of wonder and amazement, the extent of which we only partially understand. And this then becomes praise. It is praise for God’s amazing greatness, beyond all our collective understanding and power. God is great.
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