Rubiks Cube

In the early 80's, some Hungarian guy named Erno Rubik came up with a multicolored plastic cube puzzle. This cube has been the number one selling toy worldwide with almost half a billion sold to date.

For the last two days I have been trying to figure this thing out. I managed to match one side on the first day and thought I was doing pretty good. I thought I had a system down and was on my way to completing all four sides. I soon realized I was nowhere near complete. I spent hours trying to get two sides and just got myself more mixed up.

Then I had an epiphany - it was simpler than 96 mixed up colors! I broke it down to three types of pieces: centers, corners, and sides. This helped me to see it completely different and got me a little farther. After another couple hours at it I realized that its complexity was even deeper than I could grasp.

I was humbled as I sat there trying to solve Rubik's cube with its 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 permutations. I was humbled because I tend to see God like that. He reveals a little glimpse of himself and I think I've got him all figured out. Then I go deeper and realize how complex and magnificent he is, and that my new understanding of him has only opened my eyes to one small dimension of his limitlessness.