Why do we not see His beauty and excellence here and now?  Because we are seeing Him through this fallen and imperfect world.  And yet his beauty and excellence shows forth in His people and what they produce.

 

Something to think about

 Jesus came into this world by a the virgin birth which required a power on high and left it by a resurrection that required the power of the Most High. Singular events.  And in between He did the even more amazing thing by appeasing the wrath of God for His people, who did not deserve it, by having bought them with His blood, resulting in our redemption from an eternity in hell.  Do we realize what we missed experiencing - do we realize we have received the gift of the universe.

He made His invisible attributes visible to us by creating this world.

God made this world.  Why make a world that is not where you live?   He made it a world to show His Glory then He made us.   Everything came out of his Mind and was made for a purpose.  He tells us in Romans 1:20 that in all He made it was telling us about Him, of his eternal power and divine nature which was put into everything he made.  These are the attributes of Him that are invisible to us but now can be seen in all he made.  So first He made the world to make his invisible attributes visible to those He made. (So all are without excuse to know their Maker.)

Second it was a world that was not foreign to Him because He created EVERYTHING in it.  It was His plan.  So it was a world He could and would come into to begin to finish the work - saving His people and then saving the creation from the sin that had entered into it.

God's plan tells us about Him.

 

Back to light again

Some Quantum Physicists have speculated that light is the basis of space.  This is intriguing because light is so basic to physics.  E=mc2 is based on the speed of light.  Sight is the only sense that requires something else - light.  If we understand that God put his attributes in everything He had made to be clearly seen then we can extrapolate much from thinking deeply about nature.  I was talking the other day with someone that water is the most basic part of life so we can expect to find an important mystery about God revealed there.  H20, the trinity.  Steam, water, ice are all simply H2O, same essence,  but in different forms, purposes, actions as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  Just as a woman can be a mother, daughter and sister still being the same person but 3 different actions give 3 different roles depending on the different relationships, behaviors.

Back to light - but thinking about it light may be more basic than water.  We cant live long without water but we can't live life at all without light.  If we are in total darkness we can do nothing to live out our lives.  No work, play, growing, producing food, finding water, etc. Its lack affects more than water.  The sun He made gives us that most essential part of life, but we take it for granted each day. Its not just the life abilities that the sun gives our bodies, plants, but there is no living of life in the dark.

Spacetime

Theoretical physicists consider space and time so intertwined that they make it one word.  They can't be separated.  I realized a while back that God's first created thing was time.  "In the beginning..." There had never been a beginning before.  But if space and time are so intertwined then he must have created space at the same time.  Genesis tells us that the earth was without form and void.  This sounds like it was without space and that would make sense that he created both at that time.  Space and time form the reality of our world.  We take it for granted but this is the capsule of reality that God built for his creation to live in.  Outside that are different realities that Quantum physicists have discovered.  The subatomic and outer space function by different rules than our reality does.

We know God lives outside of time so it follows that he must live outside of space also.  God does not inhabit a space so one had to be created for us. He lives everywhere and so is in another dimension than what we inhabit.  Something Quantum physicists have also discussed.  We know this is true because the Holy Spirit works in this world and inhabits us but we don't see him.  He is existing in another dimension as all the Godhead does.

The other interesting thing that the QP has discussed is that they can see the universe/space is expanding.  It suggests a beginning in a tighter creation and that space and time will eventually expand and run out.  End of creation?  End of our reality?  We know by scripture that is coming.  There will be and end of time and space as we know it.

Reading QP, even unbelievers, leads one to understand more about God in a bigger way than previously.

Quantum Mechanics

I have been investigating what light is and that lead me into Quantum Mechanics.  This seems to be the physics at a beyond-microscopic/observable level.  Very weird things that do no follow the norms that exist in the macro world.  We know when we throw a rock into a pond that ripples will be formed and the rock will fall to the bottom.  But now that the elements that make up our world on a level beyond microscopes/observation are able to be measured and experimented with the results are not following the rules that exist in our reality.  Bohr and Einstein argued as to what this meant.  Experiments done recently prove who was right but to explain that would require going into areas too complicated and unimportant.  What is important is that they found a world in which the rules of existence as we know them don't exist.  When you think about it the same is true for the world beyond our reality.  Einsteins Theory of relativity shows that on a plane outside our reality time exists differently. 

God created a reality in which we live.  The rules and laws of our reality are observable and measurable.  But beyond that, in bigger things, and smaller things, the same rules don't apply. He created a world for just us, that we could understand and explain but not limitlessly.  He is so beyond our understanding.  The worlds beyond us (supermacro and micro) exist according to his rules.  He created this world we live in as a separate creation from what exists beyond us.  Man will never understand Quantum Mechanics, if it is possible at all, without an understanding of God.  And what they can discover about Quantum Mechanics will give them an glimpse of the immensity and majesty of God.

Wounded Spirit

Why do I have a crushed spirit?  Cares of my world are getting worse as I get older.  Financial circumstances continue to pile up, health issues increase, relationships get difficult, unsatisfying, church is less fulfilling than ever before.  My spirit is crushed by the circumstances of my life. 

But these circumstances that get me so down are irrelevant and I get down because I focus on them.  They are irrelevant to the life I have been given in Christ.  Paul learned to be content in all circumstances because good or bad his ultimate focus was on Christ and the goal of eternal life with him.  What occurs here is just temporary and a training ground for our faith.  Nothing in this life is ever going to give us the satisfaction we desire because nothing in this life is going to live up to the fullness of life we will find ultimately in the next world.  We want something that can't be had in this world.  Everything you look to to give you satisfaction doesn't and will not.  So be content with what God has given you, orient yourself to the truth of the gospel and what He suffered for you to give you this fullness of life that is coming, you will then find the joy beyond the walls of this world - a foretaste of the tree of eternal life.