I love this topic. It is a beautiful thing to think of God, to attempt to understand the existence and mind of God. Better still to chase after the heart of God. But at the same time, from our limited perspective, we cannot graap all the Greatness. We cannot house within our selves the full scope.
It is human pride that says we can know these things fully and completely. Man can put God in a box and say this is God. But in its own way, is this any different from carving a statue and sayng that is God? We have only crafted it out of words rather than stone or wood.
Remember, Christ spoke in parables in an attempt to translate ideas beyond human comprehension. He did not lay out rule after rule, law after law, doctrine after doctrine. But instead He spoke to what already existed in human minds, with religion and law, and took us steps forward from there. In fact he challenged us to reach higher than what was previously believed to be enough.
Any cult leader can give you a doctrine, a belief, a definition of who or what God is. And then redirect your eyes back to the earth, and usually back on to themselves. They work with fear, hate, and destructive ways which usually catch up with them.
But Christ said He was the Way, the Truth, and the Life. He was not the end of the path but a doorway to be passed through that leads to the Father.
This seperates Him from cult leaders who live from a place of ego and feed upon their followers, leaders who are themselves the focus. Christ guides your eyes to the Father. He lights the path, revealing Truth, and being that Truth Manifested. He embodies the New Man, and shows us by example the lives we are called to live.
Because of this we know the difference between Wolves who feed themselves upon you, and Shepherds who guide you to safety when you don’t know the Way. The Shepherd lays down His life for you, that not one be lost. He faces the threats to keep His flock safe. He remains invested in our present struggles, in the outcomes, and in our future.
With that said, if You believe the Lord is your Shepherd, then you must trust God is still guiding us in all these things. And wrong turns will be met by a staff and rod over our lives, that we are constantly being pulled back and nudged forward. God does not leave investments unattended.
It should also be noted- if Love is the Law, and other people took a train rather than a plane to get there, maybe we can bring the Gospel into the conversation without fighting or wrestling with the groundwork God has already laid down in order to get them there.
Unless you believe false idols can teach manikind how to be thoughtful, kind, considerate, compassionate, to be self sacrificial, to search for God beyond themselves, to question the corruption of a sinful selfish world and pursue justice?
If God could make the stones praise Him, because no one else was around to praise Him (if praise was actually what God was looking for…) , couldn’t He also use a stone to save those people who did not know Him? Until He finally broke the stone apart in revelation, burning the bush, and saying, “I Am.” The bush was after all not God. But it was an instrument by which Moses could see that which no man could lay eyes upon.
Even the early church took the gods of Pagans conquered by Rome and turned them into “Saints” in order to make it easier for them to know Christ, who guides our focus to the Father. Even Paul spoke of the the temple or alter to an unknown God in a place of many Gods and used it to speak of Christ. And did he not say, I have become all things for all people. Didn’t he or am I mistaken? So the question becomes, would God use all things in Creation to point humaniity back to Himself?
How can God be both seperate and engaged? Maybe it is the same difference between Christ being both God and Man. Or Father and Son. A child cannot be born without being a part of the parent. This was the design of creation. And mankind was created in the image of God. And through Christ, God has merged with man- the blue print of the New Adam.
As the Holy Spirit joins with us when we recieve Christ into our lives, and we become a new Creation.
In this, there is some semblance of God being more internally woven someday into existence if this is not alteady the case.
When you look at objects deep enough with a microscope you will find there is no glue or gears that hold it all together. If God is not there, then please tell me what is in all of the empty space. What keeps everything from falling apart?
Faith? Belief? Doctine? Or God?
Again, I don’t focus on doctrines as much as parables. So I could be wrong. I am not about telling people what to believe. I mean, who am I to do that? But I know what I have wrestled with because I do spend time thinking upon God and trying to engage THAT, which I cannot begin to understand. I can only begin to attempt to follow and trust and know. And Love.
And God, who knows your future without Him, injected Himself into a single moment in time and space, multiple times, in order for you to be saved. A Being Who is unlimited by the dimensions that contain us, bore those parameters in order to intervine. To save us. To guide us home by giving us a Better Way Forward. Where as our old path lead us all to our death and doom, the death of all things, His Path leads us to Life. Life made New. New Chances. New Beginnings. A New Future. Because He first loved us. That is the Gospel. And we must live that Way Forward, allowing God to Transform us to prevent whatever dark fate was once before us so it will never come to pass.
Is that Doctrine? Is it Truth? Is it Inspired? I can’t tell you. I don’t know. But we are living as if all prophecies are meant to be. But God sometimes gives us a choice with that vision of what may come. He tells us of our choices so that we might choose different. And in Christ, we have the hearts that might choose better.
