Hi there,
So this is just cloud gazing sort of stuff, designed to prompt you to think about the truth, in a more engaging way. The subject is "God". But the subject is viewed in a contradictory way, from the perspective of an absence of time. The first idea is fairly simple: did God have a timeline? If He did its possible to suppose that He was not always so wise. Not wise, we may imagine, that He was a 'fool' - and that He became wise, once He realised that being a fool was while sufficient, undesirable. The thought is simple: I am not accusing God of anything, if a fool is what God wanted to be or was in the beginning, that is for God to assess or test. The point is, we start out as fools, and without God we do little about it - but then, is that because God wanted us to be fools: so we see that something that is certainly true, is that God struggled with what fools would be, whether He was one or not!
The second idea, is a little complex: what did the timeline mean to God, to begin with? Whether He was a fool or not, was He "mystified" with Himself, did He set out to know how He worked, or wait to see if He ended? Certainly God did not desire to rush and He could only have maintained that posture, if He was satisfied with the degree of Mystery that surrounded Him to begin with. God was happy to be God, it was as far as He was concerned, good, even if no one else knew it. We must assume this, surely. But then, does agree with it being found out? That He was satisified with Himself (thus - let the reader understand)? What would He have done, to increase the Mystery surrounding Him? Would it be too much? These things, we can ask God, when we see Him - surely He anticipates having to give an answer, as to His Faith, and all that!
So we have two perspectives that seem to be mirrors of each other: the first that God wants fools to keep their place (and leads by example), and second, that God understands that He is Mysterious to us and wants for us to be drawn into that Mystery, that we might feel it and know it and trust it. There is power in this, because one urges caution, to begin with, precisely what is needed when everything is yet to be what God had created it and because the latter urges patience, that the Mystery of God will come to us, in all its fullness and justify our patience with God, for all that He had created - the latter taking the enormity of time left, and doing something with it. Surely, if we have that power, we have God's presence, that we know in ourselves He has heard our cry even before we knew ourselves to be crying and that we have an answer to the fool, who refuses to hear the warning of God's correction, that time indeed, does come to an end.
Are we corrected? Surely if this is evident to us, that God has the power of wisdom over fools, and has anticipated all things, then if we fall short in any such thing, such as having an answer to the fool and having hope of the end, we should repent. We cannot make time, nor can we take it away! We are caught in the struggle over predestination, to God's greatness or His Greatness, we know not which. If we are wise, we will ask for meekness too, that we may dwell long on the Earth. Jesus said the merciful will find mercy; perhaps in this, we have hope that we will know a little wisdom and a little understanding, before our time is up. We certainly must be ready to share the knowledge of this, with others (as I have done here, for example). This is the stuff of life-long inspiration - to God be the Glory!
I hope this has been of some encouragement to you.
God bless.
So this is just cloud gazing sort of stuff, designed to prompt you to think about the truth, in a more engaging way. The subject is "God". But the subject is viewed in a contradictory way, from the perspective of an absence of time. The first idea is fairly simple: did God have a timeline? If He did its possible to suppose that He was not always so wise. Not wise, we may imagine, that He was a 'fool' - and that He became wise, once He realised that being a fool was while sufficient, undesirable. The thought is simple: I am not accusing God of anything, if a fool is what God wanted to be or was in the beginning, that is for God to assess or test. The point is, we start out as fools, and without God we do little about it - but then, is that because God wanted us to be fools: so we see that something that is certainly true, is that God struggled with what fools would be, whether He was one or not!
The second idea, is a little complex: what did the timeline mean to God, to begin with? Whether He was a fool or not, was He "mystified" with Himself, did He set out to know how He worked, or wait to see if He ended? Certainly God did not desire to rush and He could only have maintained that posture, if He was satisfied with the degree of Mystery that surrounded Him to begin with. God was happy to be God, it was as far as He was concerned, good, even if no one else knew it. We must assume this, surely. But then, does agree with it being found out? That He was satisified with Himself (thus - let the reader understand)? What would He have done, to increase the Mystery surrounding Him? Would it be too much? These things, we can ask God, when we see Him - surely He anticipates having to give an answer, as to His Faith, and all that!
So we have two perspectives that seem to be mirrors of each other: the first that God wants fools to keep their place (and leads by example), and second, that God understands that He is Mysterious to us and wants for us to be drawn into that Mystery, that we might feel it and know it and trust it. There is power in this, because one urges caution, to begin with, precisely what is needed when everything is yet to be what God had created it and because the latter urges patience, that the Mystery of God will come to us, in all its fullness and justify our patience with God, for all that He had created - the latter taking the enormity of time left, and doing something with it. Surely, if we have that power, we have God's presence, that we know in ourselves He has heard our cry even before we knew ourselves to be crying and that we have an answer to the fool, who refuses to hear the warning of God's correction, that time indeed, does come to an end.
Are we corrected? Surely if this is evident to us, that God has the power of wisdom over fools, and has anticipated all things, then if we fall short in any such thing, such as having an answer to the fool and having hope of the end, we should repent. We cannot make time, nor can we take it away! We are caught in the struggle over predestination, to God's greatness or His Greatness, we know not which. If we are wise, we will ask for meekness too, that we may dwell long on the Earth. Jesus said the merciful will find mercy; perhaps in this, we have hope that we will know a little wisdom and a little understanding, before our time is up. We certainly must be ready to share the knowledge of this, with others (as I have done here, for example). This is the stuff of life-long inspiration - to God be the Glory!
I hope this has been of some encouragement to you.
God bless.
