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"As nothing is more easy to think," says Thomas Traherne, "so nothing is more difficult than to think well." If we ever think well it should be when we think of God.
I like to think.
If I ever tell you I'm not thinking about anything, I'm lying, and you should call me out on it.
I like to ponder truths that I may never know the answer to until I leave this world.
I am getting to the point where I am okay with not knowing all the answers.
Are you?
I have been known to pull out a check list on occasion. It usually happens when I have been asking questions and in deep thought. Questions that I do not feel like I can ever come to a conclusion on, you know, the ones that revolve in a circle. So I pull out my checklist when I am on the brink of breakdown, and I write down the things I know to be true. The things I cannot deny.
My check-list has continued to grow. It began as:
1.) I believe in God the creator, because I don't believe in the Big Bang Theory
Thankfully my checklist has evolved.
I think it has to do with this whole thankfulness business. You stop to smell the roses and you see the little things, that make up the medium things, that build into the larger things, that support the ginormous things and before you know it you have a new truth that was built from the foundation up. Truth that is not easily shaken. One less thing to whip out the checklist for.
I'm reading knowledge of the Holy by A.W Tozer. If you haven't read it go and pick it up, like right now.
I've never thought about How I think about God. Have you? What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of God?
Right now for me it's: BIG
I know that word is insufficient, but as I'm reading more, I am realizing more that no words we apply to created things can be applied to God. No characteristics we apply to ourselves can fully describe the attributes of God.
"Seek the Lord while you can find Him. Call on Him now while He is near. Let the wicked change their ways, and banish the very thought of doing wrong. Let them turn to the Lord that He may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for He will forgive generously. "My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,"says the Lord. "And My ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts."~ Isaiah 55:6-9
I claim to love a good mystery, to love spontaneity, and a good adventure. If we knew everything, life would be a bore wouldn't it? God is the most mysterious being we could possibly think on. We must continue to go back for more, because He can never be fully discovered or figured out. I wouldn't want to worship someone who was. I have forgotten that my whole life is enshrouded by mystery. I imagine you have as well. That somewhere along the way we thought it possible to figure everything out, and that a sensible person can explain and justify everything. Along the way we elevated our position from created being to demi-god. We have changed from worshipping the Creator, to worshipping the created. Our minds were made to figure things out, but in the context of our Creator, to come to Him with questions, and hungry for more come back again and again. Somewhere along the way we decided we didn't need HIm for the answers. That if we couldn't figure it out on our own, then it wasn't true. I think God is one of the only areas we apply that logic. It makes no sense.
"Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls, and turned us into a generation of zombies. We cover our deep ignorance with words, but we are afraid to wonder, we are afraid to whisper mystery.."*
I refuse to be afraid of Mystery. God is surrounded by it, and I want to be close to him. I want to think well of Him. Do you? Would you dare to take the time to think on God, to lay down the control, and illusion of having all the answers, and step into the mystery? I think you will find it is more than you have ever dreamed of or risked pondering.
* Knowledge of the Holy: The Holy Trinity; pg. 18
