Greater than Highest Heavens

[S] 1 Kings 8:27-30 (NIV) --
27 "But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!28 Yet give attention to your servant's prayer and his plea for mercy, Lord my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence this day.29 May your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, this place of which you said, 'My Name shall be there,' so that you will hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place.30 Hear the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.

[O] Solomon's perspective of comparing the temple he built to the highest heaven gave me a reality check. So many times, what I do or "built" seems so "majestic" that I feel like nothing can top it.  But I'm sure Solomon's temple was by far greater than anything I've done (so far) and his confession of how greater the highest heaven must be and yet it cannot contain God's presence because He goes beyond that put what I did so infinitesimally small it's not even funny.  He goes on to claim that even that insignificant we may be, the vast God still gives attention to our prayers.

[A] Personally, I will continue to cry out to God of the greatest heavens who still listens to my cries to Him to shower down his mercy and grace.  I will claim His promises to be with me for eternity.  For our church, I am going to also claim that our church's sanctuary will be the place where people gather to cry out our hearts to the God of this universe and then some because You will give attention to each of our cries.

[P] Dear Father, Your name is far above all and to You we surrender our cries of joy as well as crisis.  May Your Spirit's unending ministry dwell in our hearts and our sanctuary.  In Jesus' name.  Amen.