Daniel 10:6-9
6 His body was like chrysolite, his face like lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
7 I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision; the men with me did not see it, but such terror overwhelmed them that they fled and hid themselves. 8 So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision; I had no strength left, my face turned deathly pale and I was helpless. 9 Then I heard him speaking, and as I listened to him, I fell into a deep sleep, my face to the ground.
Questions
1. What is significant about God being transcendent, unimaginable, and exalted beyond any measure we can use on Him, or any thought we have of him?
2. What should our response be to a God like this in our everyday life?
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Transcendent means that something elevated above the universe and human thought cannot measure or imagine it. It’s pretty amazing and kinda frustrating to think of God as transcendent. I’m always wanting to wrap my mind around everything in my life. I feel like when I wrap my mind around something, whether it’s a concept, or a situation, or a person, I’m a lot more comfortable. I have some categories and some kind of framework to deal with that concept, situation, or person.
What’s awesome, but let’s be honest, really frustrating about the attribute of God that this chapter mentions is that God is not something we can wrap our minds around. He’s unimaginable and he’s uncomfortable. He’s uncomfortable to me, because I can’t put him in a box that I can pull out and use or think about whenever I want. He is continually mysterious and unimaginable to us. We can’t put him in a box, be we have seen experiences in the Bible where people, like Isaiah in chapter 6 of Isaiah, or Daniel in chapter 10 have a supernatural encounter with God and fall face down because they realize how incredibly exalted, transcendent, perfect, etc. God is in comparison to who they are. I don’t know if we’re ever going to face God sometime in this life. It sounds like it’d be a pretty amazing experience that would put us to shame. Chances are we probably won’t, but I think we can learn from the response of the guys in the Bible that God is not someone to mess around with. With what little God has revealed about himself in the Bible I think we know that our response to a God like this has to be fear, obedience, and reverence. Fear because we know that going against his plans are going against the one who is immeasurably wise in his thoughts about how this world should be. Reverence in our worship, prayer, and moment by moment, daily lives for how little and sinful we are and how infinitely good and holy he is.
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