How Tall is God?

This is my inquisitive son, Jay. I don't know if all 4-year-old boys are like him or not, but Jay asks about 1000 questions a day. Sometimes it seems more like 1000 questions a minute:) If we are watching TV, he wants to know who all the people are, who's the biggest, who's the littlest, why are they happy, why are they sad, where are they going? He asks so many questions that he doesn't even watch the show or hear what is going on. When we read a book in the evenings, it's the same scenario. I can hardly get through a sentence without being interupted. Question after question after question after...

One of my favorite questions that he has asked is "How tall is God?" It was difficult to explain to Jay the concept that God has no size and that he is immesurable, but I made a nice effort. Immediately on the heels of my attempted answer came the next logical question, of course. "Dad, how tall is Jesus?" That one was a little easier to answer. I was able to explain to him that Jesus once walked the earth in a human body and that he was probably about 5.5' tall, and that now Jesus is in heaven and we're not real sure how tall he is now, but we'll find out some day.

Kids learn at warp speed because they know that they have a lot to learn and because they are SO inquisitive. As adults, we lose our speed of learning for the antithesis of these reasons. We think we no longer have a lot to learn so we stop asking questions.

I have a Master of Science degree in mathematics and it didn't take me long into the master's program to realize that getting an MS is really just designed to show you that everything you learned in your undergraduate degree was really just barely scratching the surface of the subject. There are worlds of things to be learned and even discovered in every scientific discipline and it doesn't take long to discover this. Every question that gets asked and answered opens up frontiers of new questions that have to be considered.

In many ways God is far simpler than the scientific fields because he can be known by even the simple minds of children. On the other hand, he truly is vast and immeasurable and far more complex than all of the scientific disciplines combined. So, why would we ever stop asking questions? How could we ever not think that we have WAY more to learn than we have already discovered? Why would we ever stop examining the Scriptures, reading and evaluating the "experts", and listening to great minds teach about him? I think that we have a tendency to get comfortable with where we are, what we know, and we don't really want to be challenged any more. We have God in our little box and that's where we want to keep him.

Destroy the Box!!! There's a false god in there.

If Jay stopped asking questions right now, he would stay socially and intellectually 4 yrs old. The same thing is true of many of us spiritually because we have stopped driving ourselves to know more of God and more about God. Question EVERYTHING, especially the foundations of the faith. Don't worry, it's true and it will withstand every question that you can throw at it, but there will be times when you get scared because you will realize that what you've thought, believed, and in same cases even taught others stands on the shaky ground of half-truth and false-hood.

Dig into the Scriptures and make your pastors and mentors shudder to see you coming knowing that you're about to ask them a question that they've never really put a lot of thought into. Make them think that you really believe there is still a vast world of knowledge out there and that the only way to attain it is to ask question after question after question...

I strongly recommend a guy named Ravi Zacharias (http://www.rzim.org/) in areas of apologetics. He has a great podcast on itunes and tons of resources on his website. Check him out and others as well.

How tall is God?