Thursday, October 14, 2010

Seek the LORD while he may be found

"Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
(Isa 55:6-11)

Many people who are not willing to acknowledge God's existence seem to base their refusal on their inability to understand God either in part or in whole. Some claim that the very idea of God's existence is illogical. Others take issue with various aspects of what is claimed to be true about God in the Bible. One question to consider is whether or not we should expect a self-existent eternal Being to be fully understood by creatures that are neither self-existent nor eternal. As the Lord says in this passage, "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways". Why should we expect it to be any different?

No comments:

Post a Comment