Mystery

Oh, How Great Thou Art

How Great Thou Art

For no word in the human language can describe

Your magnificence

Indescribable, no one can comprehend

Yet my spirit yearns to know you

To understand you

Omnipresent, fills the world and fits inside of me

Transcendent yet immanent

Cannot be objectified or held within our grasp

Not only hears but listens to the cries of his creations

Moves the hearts of human beings

Holding inside the power to do the possible for

Therefore genuinely possible

Yet not doing what is possible

Therefore completely impossible

The only true and living God

Spirit, infinite, eternal, unchangeable

Wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness

Truth

And yet these cannot describe

Owing us nothing yet

Giving us everything

He is a mystery that encounters us

Beyond our knowing

Holding the universe in his hands

Securing me in his heart

Who is he?

Father, lover

Redeemer, deliverer

First and the last

Beginning and the end

King of Ages

King of Heaven

King of Glory

King of Kings

The Way, the Truth, the Life

Name above all names

Spirit of knowledge and understanding

Kadosh, Abhir

Yahweh, Elohim

Adonai, El Elyon

El Shaddai

Author of life, Creator

Comforter, counselor

Jehovah

And yet I cannot describe

The Almighty One

Loving the unlovable

Finding the lost

Giving hope to the hopeless

Healing the dying

Knowing the number of cells in my body to stars in the sky

Creator of every beautiful flaw

For we cannot see your face

Yet we see you everywhere

In that bird sailing smoothly through the air

In the astounding sun that rises and sets so beautifully

In that innocent laugh of a baby

To that desperate heart that lies within a woman

Everything that is good and perfect is he

Never too much

Reveal yourself to us