{"id":6129,"date":"2011-01-11T07:16:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T13:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2011-01-11T07:16:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T13:16:40","slug":"incomprehensible-awe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110111-6129.htm","title":{"rendered":"Incomprehensible Awe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When I look at the works of men, I am overwhelmed with awe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Skyscrapers.<\/p>\n<p>Supercomputers.<\/p>\n<p>747s.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful artwork.  Soul-stirring music.  A well written book<\/p>\n<p><strong>It is too much for my mind to conceive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yet somehow, all these things were conceived of by the minds of <i>men<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If I cannot comprehend the immensity of these works of the mind of men, how can I begin to comprehend, to conceive the mind of God?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For He not only <em>comprehends<\/em> the minds that conceived these works which I find so awe-inspiring and incomprehensible&#8211;He <i>conceived<\/i> the very minds that were then capable of conceiving such incomprehensible (to me) works.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thus does my awe at man&#8217;s creations put me even more in awe of man&#8217;s Creator.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,<br \/>\n         The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,<br \/>\n What is man that You are mindful of him,<br \/>\n         And the son of man that You visit him?<br \/>\n For You have made him a little lower than the angels,<br \/>\n         And You have crowned him with glory and honor.&#8221;<br \/>\n~Psalm 8:3-5<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I look at the works of men, I am overwhelmed with awe. Skyscrapers. Supercomputers. 747s. Beautiful artwork. Soul-stirring music. A well written book It is too much for my mind to conceive. Yet somehow, all these things were conceived of by the minds of men. If I cannot comprehend the immensity of these works &#8230; <a title=\"Incomprehensible Awe\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110111-6129.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Incomprehensible Awe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[21],"tags":[127,293],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}