And who is this god?

And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?” Daniel 3:15

Who is this God indeed?  Really, is that not the point of It All?  That He might be revealed and known?  The glorious pouring out of creation in all of its magnificent detail and marvelous, as in Stand Back and Be Amazed, beauty and drama and connectedness.  Reaching from eternity to eternity.  From handing out Nobel prizes for exploring the most fragile of quantum states, the relationship between light and matter, to the Hubble shots of a galaxy that may be 12 billion light years away, we seek His face.  And everything in between.  Say whatever you may about Facebook, part of my heart is wandering today from the steppes of Mongolia, through the Georgia backwoods and cotton fields, past malaria pills and monkeys in an organic, sustainable farm in India to Nyeri, Kenya where Mariah reads stories to Moses, Peter and Rose in a children’s home.

The revelation of Creation, His eternal power and divine nature, only leaves man without excuse.  Nebuchadnezzar,whose great golden statue represents all the aspirations and pride and power of man, has been totally schooled in the fiery furnace.  But there is something more.

Last night, for whatever reason, as Alan sat in his hammock reading Uncle Ted’s underlined Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and discussed what mixture of Classic or Romantic Thinkers we were, I picked up C. S. Lewis and Mere Christianity to peruse from the round woven chair.  Maybe because Fred wrote yesterday and said he finished it at last, and passed it along to his mother.  

In the same way we must think of the Son always, so to speak, streaming forth from the Father, like light from a lamp, or heat from a fire, or thoughts from a mind. He is the self-expression of the Father-what the Father has to say. And there never was a time when He was not saying it... Before going on, notice the practical importance of this. All sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that 'God is love.' But they seem not to notice that the words 'God is love' have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons. Love is something that one person has for another person. If God was a single person, then before the world was made, He was not love... the living, dynamic activity of love has been going on in God forever and has created everything else.

And for this, so that we might know and experience this unspeakable love, God gave us the walk and talk of His only begotten Son.  Who not only lived this love, but died it, to smash through the aspirations and pride and power of man-who-would-be-god, and bring us into this relationship, this dance... And that, by the way, is perhaps the most important difference between Christian and all other religions: that in Christianity God is not a static thing - not even a person - but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.

In the secret, in the quiet place

In the stillness you are there

In the secret, in the quiet hour

I wait only for you

Cause I want to know you more

I want to know you

I want to hear your voice

I want to know you more

I want to touch you

I want to see your face

I want to know you more