What is your conception of God?

Our conception of God...

J.B. Phillips wrote, "We can never have too big a conception of God, and the more scientific knowledge (in whatever field) advances, the greater becomes our idea of His vast and complicated wisdom. Yet, unless we are to remain befogged and bewildered and give up all hope of ever knowing God as a Person, we have to accept His own planned focusing of Himself in a human being, Jesus Christ."

It's not in our knowledge, though, that produces wonder and deep conviction. It's experience.

When the truths of our knowledge become the experience of our relationship, we know that which surpasses knowledge (see Ephesians 3:14-20).

When we come into the grace of Jesus...
When we the love of the Father visits us...
When the communion of the Holy Ghost is upon us...
Grace... love... communion... bringing us to the unmerited, euphoric, intimacy with God...

In a sermon, the English Methodist brother, Dr. W.E. Sangster, succinctly said, "Three in One. God above us; God among us; God within us. God in origins; God in history; God in experience."

No matter where we turn, God.
No matter where we look, God.
No matter how far we seek back, God.
No matter how far we gaze forward, God.
No matter how acutely we look within, God.
No matter to what distances we probe the universe, God.

And to experience Him, this the great joy.
Our conception, growing with our experience, this the great adventure.

May our conceptions continually expand.
May our experience continually abound.

"The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all." (2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV)