Who doesn't love Buzz Lightyear? What a silly guy to think that he could really propel his plastic toy body into outerspace. You have to love his optimism, though. On the topic of infinity, the kids have been contemplating these things lately... outer space, heaven, time. Deep thoughts that hurt your brain, or maybe expanding our brain capacity necessitates deep thinking. No pain, no gain probably applies to neuro fitness as well as physical fitness.
I don't want to give my children pat answers to their deep questions for a couple reasons:
1. There are no pat answers. We are humans who can't fathom the wisdom of God beyond our tiny understanding of His word and what the Holy Spirit reveals to us.
2. Jesus never gave pat answers. He asked questions, beautiful, challenging, brilliant questions. I want to ask more questions.
There are so many things that seem infinite to us - sand on a beach, hairs on our head, stars in the sky. We can't venture to count these things, but God simply knows these things in His omniscience. I believe He doesn't have to count, the knowledge is always there even though the number may change from time to time. What things are INFINITE? The capacity to love perhaps, our capacity to think. Rumor has it that we only use 10% of our brain capacity, but there's equal research that says this is not the case. In which case, perhaps our brain capacity is finite.
Often questions lead to more questions. In the midst of our quest for understanding, I want to point my children always to the richest resource of truth that we have - the Bible. It's God's word, His breath come to life through the pens of men. Fascinating, mysterious, but true. Here are a few things the Bible tells us about infinity..
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." Hebrews 13:8
Jesus is infinite.
"All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." Psalm 139:16
God's knowledge of my life, past, present and future, is infinite. (omniscient)
"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38&39
God's love for us is infinite. What more do we need to know?
1 comment:
You have been busy thinking deeply!
One other area where God is infinite: his ability to accomplish his goals (i.e. his will).
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