“But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!
God is really BIG! That might be the wrong way to express the above verse, but Solomon is trying to tell us that God does not fit into the box we design for Him. The above verse is taken from a prayer of Solomons as he was dedicating the Temple he built for God. When he started out to build the Temple, Solomon had the same mindset:
The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods. But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him?
What we learn from this is that God, if He wants to dwell in man-made buildings, He has to choose to fit Himself into a box. Think about the incarnation of Christ. When the Son of God came to earth, He came in the form of a baby. He grew to be a man. God had to choose to “shrink” to fit into a bouncing baby boy’s body. This is what Paul is talking about in Philippians:
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
God came in the Incarnation of Christ and to be contained by "flesh,” even though flesh can’t contain Him. This is the amazing God we love, honor, worship and place our hope. God is too big for a building, but, willingly, small enough to become a baby. Amazing!!
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