The Attributes of God - The Immensity of God

The Immensity of God (Pt 2)

A Journey Into the Father’s Heart

A.W. Tozer (Volume 1 - Pg 23-24 PT 2)

Scripture teaches the immensity of God. It says in Isaiah:

"Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,  

And marked off the heavens by the span,  

And comprehended the dust of the Earth in a measure,  

Weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?"  

—Isaiah 40:12

Imagine going out millions of light years into space and finding a body so vast that you could throw our entire solar system into it like throwing a shovel full of coal into a furnace. It would simply swallow up our solar system and go on. After you’ve thought of all that, remember that God contains all of that. Remember that God is outside of all things, inside of all things, and around all things. Remember that our God made it all. That is the immensity of God. The Holy Ghost is bigger than all the universe.

This little hazelnut that Julian of Norwich saw: "Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket" (Isaiah 40:15). You know, it’s awfully hard to get a Christian scared. It’s hard to panic someone who truly believes in God. If they’re just a church member, you might be able to panic them, but if they really believe in God, it’s very difficult. It’s very difficult for someone like Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s, to scare anyone who truly believes in God. Khrushchev is beginning to sound more and more like Adolf Hitler. And where is Hitler? The same God who disposed of Adolf can dispose of Nikita one of these days.

"Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket and are counted as the small dust on the scales. Behold, He takes up the isles as a very little thing" (Isaiah 40:15). So small He doesn’t even notice them. All the nations before Him are as nothing, and they are counted to Him less than nothing and vanity (Isaiah 40:17).

Old Dr. Neighbour used to say that the word "vanity" in Hebrew meant a soap bubble—something that floats along on an infinitesimally thin skin. You touch it, and it’s gone. No one can find it again. That’s what it means. All the nations of the world are to Him as a soap bubble.