Striving to reach God

We spent the day at Angkor Wat. It was amazing. I kept thinking, "How did they do this before there were cranes to lift heavy rock?" Elephants could have lifted if they had gigantic pullies and very strong ropes or if they used movable ramps.

Since all of these temples were totally broken down, my other stunned issue was, "How do/ did they put this colossal ‘jigsaw puzzle’ back together from the piles of rubble?”

At the mother temple, I realized how quickly war, religious struggle, and trees could bring down human creativity. Note the way tree roots have taken over this temple.

One of the women with us, noted that all this creativity, energy and work was expended to try to reach a God they didn't even know. How strong the urge is to get to know the one who created us.

I got the giggles after we saw the “No Access” sign in front of the huge, steep stairway up to the highest level of the temple. Of course there is no access to God through work of our own, or by reaching higher or trying to be a better person.

We can only ‘reach’ God because God has already pursued us and sent Jesus as an example of how to approach God. ‘He has told you, what the Lord requires of you but to love mercy, to do justice and to walk humbly with your God.’ Micah 6:8