Sensible God

Sensible God

There is a God.  

He created the universe.  He is big enough to orchestrate everything in this universe, from the flight of the bumblebee to the dances of sugar-plum fairies.  He has the power over all things, has knowledge over all things, and has presence over all things.  He is infinite, just looking at the universe we see its vastness and the measurements that cannot be calculated.  A light year is the distance it takes light to travel in a vacuum in one julian year, and astronomers have used a gigalight-year abbreviated "GLY" used to measure supergalatic structures and quasars.  There is only one abbreviation that is suitable, "OMG." Oh, my God is the only response that is applicable for a situation called this universe.  All this, all this beauty, all this complexity, all this grandeur, all this for Him.   

There is a God who empathizes.  

Amid all this creation.  Despite all the reasons for attention this God empathizes with people.  He choses to focus on people.  People are feeble.  We are not the biggest, most powerful, and sometimes the smartest.  In fact, we are not lovable at all, we have rebelled against God by sinning against Him.  We have all given Him "the bird" at one time or another.  This is reason enough for us to be the most despised of all creation, but He empathizes with us.  The way that we empathize with others is if we experience things, with ours senses, the things they experience.  How could someone empathize with me?  If they saw the stars in the sky,  if they heard the crickets make annoying sounds, if they smelled the flowers that i love to smell, if they tasted the savory plums gush with flavor, and embrace in the hugs from my fiancee.  Someone must go through it.         

There is a God who has come.  

This is the answer to all our questions.  God has come to be with us.  Jesus has come down and taken on the human form to go through the things that we have gone through.  He experienced weakness, limitedness, hunger, temptation, pain, opposition, loved-ones dying, frustration, anger, suffering, persecution, and even death.  He "senses us," because Jesus has come.  God is mindful of us, He hears us (even when we pray all the time), He sees us (when we want God to see what we are doing for Him),  He even smells us (when we are being presented as a holy sacrifice), He tastes (he experienced what we experience) , he touches us (with His holiness, love, etc.).  

So, He is a sensible God.  He senses us, and is mindful of us.  Since He is sensible He is aware that we need salvation, life, holiness, love, and a relationship.  God has come to give us all of this.