Google Mapping God

Last night I was listening to a song called "What Would Jesus Do?", and while I do love the song, it made me realize just how many questions we ask. We ask so many questions that it gives the impression that we're trying to look at "the big picture" (God) to try to understand Him more... But I personally think that's a problem.

I look at it as Google Maps: It you zoom into the map you can see the detail of everything, but if you zoom out of the map you can see the whole picture. I see us viewing God the same way...
While everyone is asking their own questions, my question is this: Why are we trying to look at "the big picture" if the picture will always be too big to see? We zoom out on God so much that we miss the special details of who He is and what He's doing.
The fact is: We can zoom out and try to look at God as a whole picture, but He will never be a picture that can be fully seen.

All this doesn't apply so much to those who don't believe (though it can), but to those who DO believe yet still try to figure out what they can't. In the meantime, they're missing the special details of God! We don't KNOW Him because we're asking too many questions. We're standing from a distance thinking we'll find the answers from far away!

The best information you can get comes from an actual relationship with God. Have you prayed lately? Do you even KNOW what prayer can do? Have you read what GOD says about who He is? Have you even considered that it's the TRUTH?
The problem is we search for God our own way (and end up finding other things) and don't even consider His way...

"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."
~ Jeremiah 33:3


Have we become so obsessed with our own "knowledge" that we refuse to search for the Truth? We (as Christians) sometimes try to examine God as if He's some kind of magical object, and don't see His character as our Father. A Father who loves us and wants nothing more than to take care of us. The best way we can receive information is from the source itself, and God has NOT eliminated Himself as a source of information, so why are we looking to other people and books and things? Why is God not good enough to provide us with what we need to know? Or is faith just too tiring for us to live by?

God is a picture that we will never be fully able to zoom out on because He's completely eternal. It's impossible to get to the end of eternal! But go ahead and wear yourself out trying to get there... but even I can tell you it's not God your looking for, it's knowledge.

We're way too concerned about what God looks like from a far point of view that we're missing the details of His character.
He is God
He is our Father
He is our Rock
He is our Salvation
He loves us
He provides for us
He takes care of us
He speaks to us
He died for us
He forgives us
He is eternal
He is preparing a place for us
He saves us
He protects us
He is our strength
He is our Creator
He is powerful
He is gracious
He gives life
He takes life
He IS Life
He knows our thoughts
He knows our worries
He knows our struggles
He answers our prayers
He desires our hearts
He doesn't change
He is exactly who He says He is
He turns bad into good
He hears our cries
He is by our side
He is our Shepherd
He is our King
He is our everything
He is more than we'll ever know!

When it's your time to be judged, He's not going to care about your knowledge... He's going to care about your heart and how you lived for Him. So stop zooming out on a picture that comes with so much detail! Get to know your relationship with Him above anything else, and THEN things that matter will be revealed to you! : )
(Things I learned through experience.)