Try explaining that to an 8 year old.  We as humans always try to put things into a category that we can grasp and understand.  Men have strived for decades to prove that there is life on other planets or that the “Theory” of evolution is true.  Matter of fact there have been many scientist who spent their whole career working on a theory only to retire or die before they are able to prove it.  What is this need of ours to try to understand and rationalize everything?  Why is it so hard for us to accept the unexplainable? 

¹⁸ “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! ¹⁹ Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O LORD my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you, ²⁰ that your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place. ²¹And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.”

2 Chronicles 6:18-21 ESV

In 2 Chronicles 6 we see that Solomon has completed the temple and he then dedicates it to God.   In this prayer of dedication we see that even though he doesn’t understand how God could possible reside in the temple he believes that He will…based simply on the fact that God said He would.   He then cries out to God to day and night hear the pleas of His servants and the whole nation and asks God to forgive all the sin.   Oh and by the way he also was praying this in front of the entire nation on his knees with his hands thrown upward to heaven (What an example of complete surrender).

In regard to our own lives; are we standing kneeling on the promises of God rather we can comprehend them or not?  Are we expecting God to move in supernatural ways that are His ways or are we settling for things that we as humans can understand?  Do we have to settle the argument “what came first the chicken or the egg” before we are able to praise God for creating Chicken pot pies?  Ok, that one may have been a stretch (but when it is cold and snowy chicken pot pies are a supernatural warming agent) but you get my point regardless.  Solomon knew that God could not even be contained by Heaven…so why do we think he can only work in ways we would think of?  I challenge you to get on your knees and throw your hands up to the God that can not be contained by Heaven.  He is waiting to hear your praise and your pleas!