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How often do you get up in time to see the sun rise over the horizon? To watch Homer’s rosy-fingered dawn reach for the sky? How often do you watch the sun slip westward, with darkness creeping in from the east? Do you speak in similar terms while doing so? Does that mean you think the earth is the center of the universe?
People once did think that, but they learned more through curiosity and observation. The universe is much larger than mankind originally perceived. For some, the study becomes more important that its creator.
As man’s understanding of the sun’s movement increased, the sun’s necessity did not decrease. Whether the sun circled the earth or the earth circled the sun, the sun is necessary for the earth’s existence.
The same is true of our God.
Our perception of God does not change our need for God. Our beliefs regarding His existence or His creative abilities has no impact on God. Neither do the limitations we place on Him.
I never ceased to be amazed at the limitations people placed around their perception of God’s abilities. The God I worship is capable of creating everything that we can see, and that which we cannot see without assistance.
With the physical, we need mechanical assistance -- microscopes and telescopes. With the spiritual, we need the Holy Spirit and prayerful communication with our Lord. Then we shall hear, even as the children of Israel heard over and over:
Ye shall know that I am the Lord … your God (Exodus 6:7; 16:12; 1 Kings 20:28; Ezekiel 6:7; 7:4, 7:9; 11:10; 11:12; 12:20; 13:9, 14, 21, 23; 14:8; 15:7; 20:38, 42, 44; 23:49; 24:24; 25:5; 35:9, 36:11; 37:6, 13; Joel 2:27)
Christ makes it personal: At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. (John 14:20 KJV)
Do you, and is He? Do you know that Jesus and the Father are one, and is He in you? |
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