My mind is way too tiny to begin to even think about how great God truly is. Besides that, my natural man has an ego (short for Edging God Out) that falsely tells me that I know what’s best and that I control my fate. Add to that equation the sin factor and I am like Adam and Eve hiding from God when they disobeyed.
I think if God did not create some sort of veil between us and Him, it would be impossible for us to have a free will. Without free will, we would all be robots. I believe the most important concept we must understand about God is that He is Love. Being born with a sinful nature it would seem we are separated from God from birth. The finite mind, the ego, and as we grow from babies to adults our deceit grows more rampant. All of this only expands the great chasm between us and our Creator. Only His Love restores us to Him. We don’t call Him Father for nothing; although He could be called Father because He made us. I think He gave us the ability to be sons and daughters and mothers and fathers so that we may experience for ourselves how He must Love us. Whether we are children examining our parents or parents examining our children we are experiencing the Love of God firsthand, even if it is a microscopic fraction hardly measureable in comparison to His Love for us. When we think of Him sending His only begotten Son to suffer for us as He did, we remember His words written down by the apostles, Paul and Peter: Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift (2 Corinthian 9:15), He heard unspeakable things (2 Corinthian 12:4), Ye rejoice with joy unspeakable (1 Peter 1:8).
The human mind can neither comprehend nor put into words, written or spoken of God’s great Love. All we can do is reflect that great Love back to Him and to others, in our meager fashion, hold on in faith (another gift from Him) and wait for that beautiful day when that veil is lifted. One of my favorite verse’s from His Word: Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror, then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. (1 Corinthian 13:15) What a fitting end for the Love chapter.
God is Love
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love (1 John 4:8); And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. (1 John 4:16) Words, not just written in a book, but on the tablet of my very heart and soul! All I can give Him is a thank you from the utmost bottom of my being. He owns everything else and I am working on giving Him all of me. To say that I already have would prove me a liar. I still have areas in my life I need to work on. Until that day when the perishable clothes itself with the imperishable, I’ll just have to return His love to the best of my ability with the help of His Spirit and in my feeble human way.
Boy, I got way off track here! Just to answer that question gets me up to my neck in worship! Anyway, to make a long story short; He is my source, for all things both physical and spiritual, my salvation, my only pride (whoever brags, let him brag on the Lord) and my consummate joy! That’s about the best I can do for now. I look forward to the day when we can answer that question unfettered from these jars of clay and in His presence! Come Lord Jesus!
Amen,
Joel Emerson