Comprehending the Incomprehensible (Part 2)
22/04/07 00:01
What
does it mean to know the Unknowable and what benefit
does it offer? In other words, why strive to possess
a knowledge of something that transcends all created
possibilities?
(I realize that I am speaking very philosophically
here and possibly beyond my ability to speak it, but
that only proves my point all the more. I believe
that if you press on to understand this small bit of
knowledge of God that it will help you in the long
run. I know that my problems are bigger than me and
therefore, I need Someone bigger than my
problems
to get them solved in my life. If you can grasp this
knowledge of God it will help you with the problems
that are in your life.) Life
is good, well it was suppose to be! But we all know
that life is not good. Something has thrown itself
into the mix and life has been troubling ever since.
That something is sin and it desires to rule over
each of us (Gen.4:7
)
but we are to master over it. By doing so, our lives
will be more peaceful and that will allow us to enjoy
them all the more. We want our lives to be good and
the only way that is possible is by knowing the Good
that transcends all goods.
God is the essence of all that is good, in that, if there is any good in anything, that good came from God. He is the righteousness that I long for, the perfect attitude of mind that I seek and every right decision that I want to choose. His way is the only way, and any other way would be imperfect and thus futile to choose. God is never wrong. He never makes a mistake and there isn’t any minute bit of knowledge that is beyond His knowing. God knows all things at once. I cannot picture God as reasoning out anything in His mind. In God, things just are. God not only knows if I will be saved at death, He also knows what I’ll be doing ten billion years from now. He knows it now and that is without thinking about it as you and I would think about it. God is both terrible in glory and intimate in love, two things I cannot perceive as compatible within the same being. How His holiness condemns me and yet, His love receives me without contradicting Himself is more than I can logically rationalize. How He is nowhere, and yet, everywhere, inside me, and yet, on the Throne outside of this created universe, takes my breath away. Isn’t it amazing that He can reveal Himself as One and Three at the same time?! Even though He has chosen to reveal Himself in this way I can think of it as perfectly possible –even though I cannot comprehend it. How can He give life and take it away? When I perceive life to be so powerful and precious, He dispenses it as if it were a tool. How did He create all things out of nothing while He is omnipresent (everywhere at all times)? How can time be nothing to Him? How is it that He is not accountable to time? For, I know, that He always was, He is now and He always will be. These thoughts are precious to me. They give me motivation when my life wears me down. I need to see Perfection that has no limits!
God is the essence of all that is good, in that, if there is any good in anything, that good came from God. He is the righteousness that I long for, the perfect attitude of mind that I seek and every right decision that I want to choose. His way is the only way, and any other way would be imperfect and thus futile to choose. God is never wrong. He never makes a mistake and there isn’t any minute bit of knowledge that is beyond His knowing. God knows all things at once. I cannot picture God as reasoning out anything in His mind. In God, things just are. God not only knows if I will be saved at death, He also knows what I’ll be doing ten billion years from now. He knows it now and that is without thinking about it as you and I would think about it. God is both terrible in glory and intimate in love, two things I cannot perceive as compatible within the same being. How His holiness condemns me and yet, His love receives me without contradicting Himself is more than I can logically rationalize. How He is nowhere, and yet, everywhere, inside me, and yet, on the Throne outside of this created universe, takes my breath away. Isn’t it amazing that He can reveal Himself as One and Three at the same time?! Even though He has chosen to reveal Himself in this way I can think of it as perfectly possible –even though I cannot comprehend it. How can He give life and take it away? When I perceive life to be so powerful and precious, He dispenses it as if it were a tool. How did He create all things out of nothing while He is omnipresent (everywhere at all times)? How can time be nothing to Him? How is it that He is not accountable to time? For, I know, that He always was, He is now and He always will be. These thoughts are precious to me. They give me motivation when my life wears me down. I need to see Perfection that has no limits!
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