What kind of suitable praise can lowly creatures like us offer to God?
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, my thoughts higher than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:9).
How can we offer praise to a perfect God whose ways and thoughts are so much higher than ours and well beyond our ability to fully comprehend?
Doesn't meaningful praise really work the other way. Isn't the most valued praise normally bestowed by someone of higher status on those below?
Perhaps genuine praise looks beyond status and titles.
Perhaps God, like any human parent, is simply pleased to be acknowledged by his children - regardless of their inability to fully grasp his greatness.
Perhaps Teilhard de Chardin's "Sovereign Someone" is a title and expression of humble praise that most suitably acknowledges a perfect God with less than perfect children.
