It’s been a long time, and I don’t remember where I was, but I know that I’ve looked down in a well before. I’m remembering an old time well that has a rock and cement top and is a few feet high and has a bucket that goes down in to draw water. Those wells stir up feelings of depth to me. We can only see down a few feet, but we know there is so much more. God is like that. We see his qualities now, but we don’t see the depths.
Another time I remember swimming in a lake that was very deep and trying to swim to the bottom. It took me several tries—mostly overcoming fear of what was down there and wondering if I would have enough air to get back up. This lake was deep enough that the sun looked like a tiny orangish brown spot when I looked up the bottom. I think our desire to explore the depths will be realized in eternity as we get to know God.
The Bible says that the Holy Spirit searches the deep things of God (1 Corinthians 2). I believe this is our destiny as Christians—to ponder, wonder, and discover the deep things of God for eternity. Those of us who have the son have live, eternal and abundant. Our eternal life will be a plunge into the depths of an infinite well, but we won’t have the fear of running out of breath. We won’t fear anything we find in the depths of God. We will know him fully even as we are fully known (1 Corinthians 13).
So what can we do now? When you read the Bible look for the depths of God’s compassion, justice, hope, peace, grace, and all his other great qualities. Praise the Lord when you find those qualities around you and in you. Reflect on the cross, the critical moment of history where God both died and lost a son. That’s a deep thought, and we have forever to ponder it.
