# “The same love that looks after a star” by Bobby Jamieson

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- Published: 2025-05-17T08:00:00-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“In a life devoted to the one true God, fear is inseparable from joy and joy from
fear. Joy in God is disturbingly interlaced with fear of God.

God is the object of your deepest desire and adoration. He is your refuge, your 
happiest hiding place. And yet God stands over you, above you, often seemingly against
you.

As Job confessed, “_Though He slay me, I will hope in Him; yet I will argue my ways
to His face._” (**Job 13:15**) Taking refuge in God is intertwined with the knowledge
that He who made you and sustains you and loves you can also undo you.

Like the ocean, God’s ways are beyond our understanding and control. Surfers continually
puzzle over the intricate intersections of forces and features that produce well-
shaped waves, wondering about swell size and period and direction, wind and tide,
drifting sand daily recontouring the ocean floor.

But, per [Finnegan](https://amzn.to/4mllMwA), “_When the surf is big, or in some
other way humbling, even these questions tend to fall away. The heightened sense
of a vast, unknowable design silences the effort to under-stand. You feel honored
simply to be out there_.” ([335](https://amzn.to/4mllMwA))

When you glimpse a humbling sight of God’s hugeness or holiness, questions fall 
away. Though you cannot know His design, you do know it is vast.

The more acutely you sense Him, the more complete the silence that blankets your
soul. You feel not merely honored but stunned to be loved and looked after by the
same love that looks after a star twenty-eight billion light-years away.”

–Bobby Jamieson, [_Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes’ Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593601319?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
New York: WaterBrook, 2025), 195.

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