Questions about God...
The other night I was at a College and Career group with my friends from another church. We were reading through Romans, and we got into some pretty deep discussions, which ended up going in circles because we were trying to understand how God can know everything we will ever do, yet we make our own choices. It is just really hard to understand how you can make your own choice when God knows the choice you are going to make. At first I was quite confused, trying to wrap my mind around this, when I realized that I am never going to completely understand God.
I am someone who really enjoys learning how things work, and the more I can know about the world and everything, the better. I really enjoy gaining knowledge, and explaining how stuff works to other people. I used to want to completely understand God, and why He did what He does, and just everything about who He is. This seemed possible when I was younger, when everything seemed so simple, but as some of my simple questions were answered, that just developed into more and more questions.
A while ago I accepted the fact that I will never know everything, but God does know everything, and He will let me know what I need to know. It's a comforting feeling to know that God, who is taking care of me knows everything, past, present and future. I realized at the College and Career group that I am actually happy with the fact that I will never even begin to understand God. You may wonder why this would make me happy, but if I can barely even understand who this God is who created me and is protecting me and is in charge of my life, He must be incredibly powerful.
I am often amazed by things humans create. For example how we can design a vehicle that can go at such incredible speeds, and be able to run for many years. Or just the fact that an incredibly heavy plane can stay suspended in the air (I have learned the real reason as to how that works, but it is still incredible to me), or a cotton candy machine. It's amazing how this sugar can turn into powdery goodness. Then I just think of everything God created, and how He actually created humans, who create all these incredible things, and how I can't even begin to understand my creator.
Our relationship with God can kind of be described as a parent to a very young child. A parent knows quite a bit about the world, and knows big complex words that the child can't even begin to understand. So the parent uses very simple words to talk to the child and explain things, but the parent can barely even begin to explain everything they know. Yet since the parent knows so much more, they can protect the child, and take care of him/her. God is like this parent, we can barely even begin to understand God, but He tells us what we need to know in “simple” words, and He takes care of the rest.
This concept has been on my mind a lot lately, and I just love the fact that God is so much bigger and powerful and loving than I can even begin to imagine. It is always good to ask questions and get more information and to wonder about God, but it's also good to understand that you won't get answers to all your questions, and that is a good thing. Keep asking questions, because God might even give you an answer to a question you didn't expect to get answered.
I am someone who really enjoys learning how things work, and the more I can know about the world and everything, the better. I really enjoy gaining knowledge, and explaining how stuff works to other people. I used to want to completely understand God, and why He did what He does, and just everything about who He is. This seemed possible when I was younger, when everything seemed so simple, but as some of my simple questions were answered, that just developed into more and more questions.
A while ago I accepted the fact that I will never know everything, but God does know everything, and He will let me know what I need to know. It's a comforting feeling to know that God, who is taking care of me knows everything, past, present and future. I realized at the College and Career group that I am actually happy with the fact that I will never even begin to understand God. You may wonder why this would make me happy, but if I can barely even understand who this God is who created me and is protecting me and is in charge of my life, He must be incredibly powerful.
I am often amazed by things humans create. For example how we can design a vehicle that can go at such incredible speeds, and be able to run for many years. Or just the fact that an incredibly heavy plane can stay suspended in the air (I have learned the real reason as to how that works, but it is still incredible to me), or a cotton candy machine. It's amazing how this sugar can turn into powdery goodness. Then I just think of everything God created, and how He actually created humans, who create all these incredible things, and how I can't even begin to understand my creator.
Our relationship with God can kind of be described as a parent to a very young child. A parent knows quite a bit about the world, and knows big complex words that the child can't even begin to understand. So the parent uses very simple words to talk to the child and explain things, but the parent can barely even begin to explain everything they know. Yet since the parent knows so much more, they can protect the child, and take care of him/her. God is like this parent, we can barely even begin to understand God, but He tells us what we need to know in “simple” words, and He takes care of the rest.
This concept has been on my mind a lot lately, and I just love the fact that God is so much bigger and powerful and loving than I can even begin to imagine. It is always good to ask questions and get more information and to wonder about God, but it's also good to understand that you won't get answers to all your questions, and that is a good thing. Keep asking questions, because God might even give you an answer to a question you didn't expect to get answered.
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