A Gentle Whisper

  It’s been less than a year since I last visited Stonehenge and to no surprise it hasn’t changed.  The oversized monument stands just as strong as it did last July and as it has since 2600 BC. The stones cling tight to the legend surrounding them and refuse to let their mystery ever be solved. However, from time to time it allows for lucky tourists to have their own epiphanies. Epiphanies which are not about the rocks themselves but answers to questions in their own lives. 

  For some of my fortunate classmates this held true, but for me… Well I had no such great revelation. It wasn’t until I was sitting in the classroom this morning listening to my friends share their insights given to them by the great stones that my own little realization came, like a gentle whisper it came. It was not a new idea or thought but more of a reminder about something that I had learned last semester when a few friends and I read The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer. 

  In his book, Tozer writes about the great mystery of God. He explains that if God was capable of being understood than He wouldn’t be God. Instead He would be of no greater importance than you and I, but lucky for us He is beyond all comprehension. He is the rocks of Stonehenge, much of which are hidden beneath the ground unable to be seen by the human eye. His mystery draws people in who are hoping they will be the one to solve the great puzzle. Instead these same people (myself included) are left simply humbled and captivated.

  "The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper." -1 Kings 19:11-12

"Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens--what can you do? They are deeper than the depths of the grave--what can you know?" -Job 11:7-8

The Great Stonehenge

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