“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have built?” - 1 Kings 8v27
Solomon knew that the temple he had just built could not really hold God, but that God chose to come into the temple presence. There was no misconception, Solomon knew that God transcended time and space and nothing could contain Him.
It is amazing how often we try to put this infinite God into our little God box and make Him fit our mould or fit Him into our plans and our schedules. We try to limit God to what we understand and how we see things. God’s only limit is His perfect will and we cannot hope to understand that.
Our God will be no more bound by our human limitations on Him that He was by the walls of that temple. Heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him. Let us remember that our knowledge cannot contain Him either.
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