I love knowing someones mind. to somehow get inside their head and figure out what they’re thinking- to be able to read their feeling and emotions. Especially the woman-kind... (but that’s a whole different blog!)
what about getting into God’s 'head'? I know we try! all the time! that’s why people write books and blogs and make nooma dvd’s and give hour-long sermons. We want to get to know God more, and we want to figure out what he’s about. in order to figure out what he’s about, we try to know what he’s thinking...
The greatest thing about God is... He isn’t an equation. He isn’t a section in a maths text book that I can just work out on a piece of paper and then understand! You can’t put him in a box. you can’t figure him out!
You see, if we could figure him out, then we would know everything he knows, and if we knew everything that he knows, that would make us equal to him- which would make US God and therefore we wouldn’t need God. But we do need God and we can’t be equal to him and we can’t understand him! Thats why HE is God and we aren't! Get it?
We can always get to know God more than we do right now, but we can never fully understand him.
Yes God tells us a lot about himself and his plans for us in the bible, but not everything. This is why I don’t like people who try to predict God. like the end times. I think God doesn’t give us a date for a reason! he wants us to realise that we can’t know everything because he is God and we’re not, and we have got to be ready, and trust that he has it under control and he has our best interest at heart.
The point where trying to figure out God becomes unhealthy, is the point at which we think we have figured him out!
I don’t know why God does things, and I love that! I don’t know whats coming next, and its exciting! The world could ‘end’ while you’re reading this, or in two thousand years time. I might have an awesome 2011 or the worst year of my life... but all I know is that I have a God who loves me, and he’s a God that I can trust!
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