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. Isaiah 55:8-9
Two trillion galaxies, this the current estimate made by the top scientists. We earthlings still haven’t totally explored our own oceans and they are still far more a mystery than the moon. And we still have crazy pride thinking we ‘know’ SO much. Our arrogance seems to reach new heights each day as we marvel at the latest ‘invention’ Man has come up with. Of course many of those inventions have the ability to destroy humanity and actually are detrimental to our own relationship with God. We really are toddlers thinking we ‘know’ better than our Parent. We throw tantrums when we get told “No.” We sulk when we get told we are wrong. When we get caught doing something we know is wrong … we first deny it. Then we make excuses and try to blame someone else. Very, very, rarely do we admit it, fess up and repent, and then ask forgiveness. It’s just not in our ‘fallen’ nature to … repent. We have to be taught what is .. right, good, kind, and love. This world will not teach you these things. We have to learn them from someone who is more ‘mature’ and wiser than us. We must give in to the love being given to us. We must learn this world doesn’t revolve around ‘me’.
This makes the sacrifice Jesus and the Father made for us — so much more amazing, and WAY beyond our full understanding. We just don’t have the complete understanding to know the depths and fullness of the ‘act’ committed for each of us — by Jesus. Secondly we certainly don’t understand the mystery of the Holy Spirit indwelling us. Even in the lifetime we have …we will barely scratch the surface of the universal massive love and mystery God has done and created us for. We must accept these thing on … faith, which again must be given to us by Him. The empty tomb certainly reverberates through out the universe. Staggering!!
Yet here we are. And I’m just barely beginning to understand a few things. I understand He loves us. I understand He has provided a ‘way’ to know Him deeply. I understand that it seems God is ALL about relationship and intimacy. God is HOLY HOLY HOLY. This in Hebrew means He is almost incomprehensible how far above His creation He is. He is separate, yet His purposes were to create beings that could enjoy perfect love with Him. Perfect love is without … sin. There is a simplicity there as well as a never ending deep mystery. God created us to have fellowship with Him. He created us to be loved by Him. How much does a baby know how much their parent loves them? How much more does God love us than we love?
We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19
This is the journey with Him, to learn love, to experience love, to know love, and then… to love God AND others. Yet we as toddlers get it wrong so much of the time, and take so many things for granted and have severe entitlement attitudes. Why? Because we are toddlers. Does that stop the love of a parent? No, of course not. Frustrate, exasperate, and really bother the parent, absolutely. But the loving parent works to teach their child the ways of love and … God. How much the child actually listens to the parent has to do with the will and character within the child. We hope that our children will learn how much we love them and want the best for them. But being ‘toddlers’ ourselves in SO many ways — we screw up as parents, and actually cause harm to the very ones we love so much. The father and mother scars in a person that came from their childhood definitely can give an individual lots of ‘emotional baggage’. Which in turn can really hinder the individual in developing a relationship with God. So we will ALWAYS need His advice, counsel, teaching, wisdom, and emotional support. All of this is to be brought THROUGH the relationship with the indwelling Presence of the Holy Spirit, when the individual submits themselves to God and accepts the ‘gift’ the Father gave us THROUGH Jesus.
So … how much are you allowing the Holy Spirit to teach you? Are you realizing your immaturity before Him? Have you learned the ways of humility, gratefulness, and repentance? Have you begun to understand how young you actually are, and how little you actually know?