From a certain perspective it seems exactly as you describe ~ absurd. Enter one tiny catalyst of information and the whole thing jells. Any wonder that we perish for lack of knowledge yet in another place, the Scripture says much knowledge makes ill the heart and more knowledge puffs up to pride that precipitates a fall. So where is the line and the balance and the sense of this knowledge that we need, yet don’t need too much of, and too much will cause us to fall flat on our faces?
It is all in the balance, knowledge, supreme understanding and Presence of God everywhere.
He is calling all the shots all the time. We are in a time and human frame, in an experience of our God making us in His Image. We want to see what He is doing but at best we faint when He gets too close to the bone. We pass out when He gets so near we lose strength and energy by contrast to His Mega Power Supremacy. Just recall the times when you sat in the dentist’s chair and heard the drill or slammed on breaks to avoid a car accident. See what I mean? We simply just don’t recognize Him in our present mortal structure of perceptions.
He even tells us that He speaks to us in our dreams, and visions are His Forte. Those things you cannot go out and purchase, beg, borrow or steal and there are many counterfeits in life. The true God Gifts of perceptions, insights and language of His Love to our deepest most unexposed places within our souls, are His to Give. He is the lover of our souls.
The stuff we are made of is just a particle of that which is God who is all, everywhere, all the time, before and beyond. Figure that out without blowing a gasket of carefully placed mental alignments and comfort zoning of emotional dispositions proportioned to the desire frame capacity of our being and whoops...we fall off the ceiling, Scriptures and all.
I am so with you on this one gk but let me assure you, it is far better to fall off the ceiling than to be gravitationally pulled to the floor to feel the strength God has placed within the centre of our earth that blocks out the light like a black hole. Also, a black hole as such, is not a hole, but an intense density where light disappears. So what’s that if there be no darkness in God if such a thing as a black hole or a dark night can actually present itself to our perceptions and blindness? What’s that but a human testimony of our fear that God might not be and is not necessarily everywhere all the time for us in our estimate and perception, because in our carnal, mortal and fear prone vulnerabilities, we can and do visit those places in mind, heart and body where God doesn’t appear to be anywhere insight! Those places are real and they hurt like proverbial hell.
That is why we need each other to remind one another we are not without God, when we fall down or just crawl out of a tumble into fear and suffering. We need each other’s assurances and affirmations that God is not asleep or absent, ever!
God is not only in our minds and perceptions that can and do exhibit A Class illusions of such magnitude we can experience death, and heart stopping moments of fear and anxiety, all brought on by our situations in a our individual worlds that are so real to our nerves and physical anatomies and emotional physiologies, that we need support and comfort in our realms of human experiences and circumstances. Yet, though seeming not always to be so, God IS beyond, in, around, with and holding us, all the time and He is not alone for He is accompanied by with through and in His Son Jesus Christ, who’s Spirit is also in us. What an uncanny formula. What an unimaginable combination. Who would have thought it.
To put into practice the delight of awareness of God’s presence inside out and outside in, is a Gift of God. That Gift is real, precious and valuable above any asset of material wealth or physical prosperity.
Think why and how God can give you a thrill of joy and appreciation, just with a cup of coffee, and the next, with the same cup of coffee, annihilate that joy and make it feel like it was never there, can never return and even if it does or can, you feel you will not appreciate it ever again. Did you not know you gave your cup, your porch and the joy of your horses in your soul, to us, here? We received it. Well I certainly did. May it return to you and carry forward into your cup, the heat of the sunny days here in SA and the tears of the rain, only God can return to you to mirror His face in the simple, uncluttered pleasure of His Love.
After the thief came to my home, I thought I’d never again be able to enjoy the ambiance of the nature that surrounds my house, yet again, God proves infallible and can cause me to catch myself enjoying again, the beauty He makes possible and accessible, to perception just as surely as He can cause you to catch yourself long after you have accepted you can no longer enjoy the coffee and the porch, He will meet you right there and give you His joy again despite all the snow in Antarctica . He’s like that and shows again and again that He can raise the dead despite us being contained in this mortal combustible earthen vessel that is the self, where resides the negative experiences of God’s seeming absence, that feel more certain, more powerful and more real in its time and presence than the feelings of joy and peace that can be shattered at a moment’s notice. That’s a human perception and God given experience.
One moment you are sharing your joy and cup of coffee on the porch and the next, it is snowed out and you are lamenting before the fire that is the next port of call God has given to you to meet your needs for comfort and rest. Return to the fire tomorrow, and He, God can be gone down the road to the next port of call He causes you to encounter of His wind of a Spirit type reunions that are illusive, unadvertised and certainly cannot be retained by our company nor commanded by our needs. The Song of Solomon is an etude to the wispy, willowy yet not flimsy fabric of love presence God can and does continually give to us.
May He continue to meet you on the Porch, in the glow of the warm fire and in your cup of coffee and neigh of your horses. Just put Him nowhere and He can appear everywhere. Stop looking for Him and He can show up everywhere. Stop calling Him and He can make you hear Him in the neigh of your horses, like He did with my cat sitting on my toe. But look for Him, try to catch Him and He will evade you every time. He likes you to seek Him or He wouldn’t tell you too, but stop through sheer exhaustion and lament for His Love and Presence and Here He is....He is looking at you as you read these lines for His eyes are your ability to see and His Mind is your ability to comprehend and His Heart He shares with very few at a time, among which you belong, for you have seen His Blessing to you on the Porch, in the coffee and in your deepest most soft feelings of need that He couches before the fire of His Warming Love for you.
The best possible answer to God could be silence.......that,... kind of hush.....He’s here...welcome and revered.
blessings
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