What
I learned from my experiences with God is that even God
thinking cannot accurately describe who God is. God cannot be described by human
reasoning. Not even the spirit-filled
believer can put into words an adequate, all-encompassing description/representation/depiction
or portraiture of God. God cannot be
uncovered and revealed like a man or a woman or a created thing.
How would
the finite mind describe the infinite God anyway?
In finite
terms. In every attempt, even the
prophets of God were tongue-tied when trying to describe just a single
experience with God, much less the All-ness of God. Listen to these descriptions:
Exodus
33:13 & 20 - 23 & 34:5,6a, 8
V13 Now
therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy
way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider
that this nation is thy people.
V20 And he
said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. 21And
the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon
a rock: 22And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that
I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with
Exodus
34:5, 6a, 8
“5And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and
proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6And the LORD passed by before
him,...
V8 “And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward
the earth, and worshiped.”
Isaiah
6:1-6a
1In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon
a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2Above
it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face,
and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3And
one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of
hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. 4And the posts
of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with
smoke.
5Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone;
Ezekiel
1:26-28
26And above
the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a
throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the
throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. 27And
I saw as the colour of amber, as the
appearance of fire round about within
it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and
Revelation 1:10, 4:1-3, 22:8
10I was in
the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a
trumpet,
Revelation 4:1-3
“After this
I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice
which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said,
Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter. 2And
immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one
sat on the throne. 3And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper
and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in
sight like unto an emerald.”
Revelation 22:8
8And I John
saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I
fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these
things.
Everyone who has come into contact with God, has
voluntarily bowed down to worship God.
Our God cannot be explained away as a theological concept. God cannot be reduced to what mankind can
explain. God is far above any
description that we could create, because the finite cannot describe the infinite."
Excerpt from God Thinking IX "Oh You Vain And Little Man" by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015
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