“God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us... {When you pray} You are as much alone with Him as if you were the only being He had ever created.” You shouldn’t become intimidated by your finiteness.
You weren’t intended to come in knowing everything or expected to know next to everything on your way out. There is rhythm because there is relationship. A father doesn’t get exasperated at his child’s questions - even if they are constant. He, if he is a human father, would only get so based on the extent that the questions, in their often simplistic manor, still exceed his own understandings. But God the Father - infinite in wisdom and endless in love - never tires of our questions. He by his amazing, un-understandable nature is, and He is pleased when we want to grasp with every fiber of our woven beings the extent of truth. Our past, present, and future to us are three separate places, or spaces. We can’t occupy one without leaving one and preparing for the other. But He, somehow, is all. Above the timeline. All is live. The moment I was a glimmer in His mind, The moment I was born, The moment I married, The moment I became a mother, The moment I will pass - aren’t separated to Him. His aboveness, His otherness is what frustrates me when my desire is to control, to order things my way, things that are not my decision. It’s not just that, it’s my own finiteness that is the true frustration. I want, I desire, to understand. But every additional feeling of knowing more is a two-sided coin, and the other side always reads, “There is so much more.” So while I can’t explain every gray conviction, though it is not gray to me. And I don’t expect every follower to follow exactly as I do ... the only way to move forward, deeper is to lay hold firmly and plunge knowing I’ll never surpass, never be bored, because His seas are endless. Yes, it is frustrating sometimes to know a “goal” will never be reached, but I am promised a prize in this upward call of God, and if there’s anything I’ve learned it’s that the Father gives good gifts. So I’ll cast every penny I can find into His infinite fountain just to know Him more.
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