Posted by
Red Meat & Cigarettes on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:29:46 PM
I always find it amazing that people continually close their eyes to the many ways God reveals himself to us. It is human nature to do this but we are constantly called to rise above the more harmful elements of our human weakness. Over the years of thinking about this subject I have had a few useful revelations..... I like to think of God as something or someone that we can't fully understand because of our limitations. I also think that God "is" and always will remain the same, but we all see God through the filter of our limited understanding. This, I believe, is by design.
Many people through the centuries have pictured God as An old man in the clouds, or nature, or a fat man with a large belly or the sun or any number of things, in fact I picture God as a man. I think he displays little pieces of himself everywhere through compassion, nature, wisdom, science and especially to me through Jesus, whose words are the simplest and most stunning. Love thy neighbor and love thy God. So simple anyone can access them, even a child or someone who is mental disabled. God is such an awesome thing that a professor or scientist can even see physics and biology as just a peek into the language and method of God.
Just as cells are to living creatures, we are cells to the larger body of God. That's what it means when he says we are created in his image. When a cell acts against the interest of it's own body ( like Cancer) it only ends up jeopardizing itself ultimately
The truth has a certain gravity to it... that's why cultures from the beginning of recorded history and in every part of the world have believed in God, And it's really only in the last few hundred years that Brilliant scholars and men and women of reason who have fallen so in love with his awesome works, revealed through studying science and nature, will not give him credit.
Even an atheist has to have an idea of what God is, to not believe in their own perception . The Filter of our own understanding is how we see God. God doesn't change.... we do.
I recently had a dream:
In the dream there was pure , strong light shining through Black cloths, Each persons cloth had a different amount of holes and different patterns, and the pinholes shined an image on each person Some peoples pattern looked like jesus, some others looked like Buddha, And there were many other patterns, but I noticed that some peoples cloths had no holes at all.