Tuesday, January 31, 2023

 Now we know that whatever happens in the universe of our experience also happens in the universe of God's display. If indeed God has created everything in this universe, then God has given us the display of His glory. The reason that these elements of matter are formed in Him creating beauty is for the purpose of showing us the kind of disposition of God by what He has made. There is a transcendence in all of the beauty that God has made. Even though this universe is finite in space and time, there is still something infinite about it.Although God is infinite and eternal, He has no parts. If He had parts, it would mean that He was limited in His infinite wholeness. So the finite points to the infinite because we see all of the beauty of God's attributes in the beauty of the finite.There is nowhere we can go where God is not. If we go up to the heavens, He is there. If we go to the depths of the earth, He is there. So, even though we experience a succession of ideas and experiences with God, everything is already with God.There is no succession in relation to God's will – everything points to His desire to glorify Himself through eternal good. God's will is expressed through His transcendent holiness, and He brings things into existence according to His eternal power. So everything that happens in this life – whether it be through the wills of men or not – is God speaking into existence. As Job said, "the Lord gives and the Lord takes away – blessed be the name of the Lord." There are only two things that happen in relation to our existence – receiving something or losing something. So there is nothing that comes to us that has not come from His hand.If we measure everything according to our ability to understand anything, then we only know God as we know this finite world. We say the power of God is displayed in the wind, light, shaking of the earth, and the silence of a storm. However, God is other. He never sleeps or slumbers, and watches over us in a timeless vision.We have a night and a day, but with God, the night is as light as the day. So when God speaks, He speaks as the first cause of everything that transpires. For He speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets. He shines forth. His glory is always on display... for God cannot be less than He is at anytime. He is eternal.When we get a vision of the Greatness of God... the Most High in all the universe for there is no place where all of God does not inhabit in all of eternity.. as we define eternity. His glory shines forth throughout an immeasurable amount of space for the vision of the invisible God is being consumed by the contemplation of His bigness. God speaks!!!!!!!!!!

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