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The Difference between Grasping and Being Grasped - Discipleship Matters: Nourishing Christian Discipleship

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2008-08-07 19:29.

 

Be still, and know that I am God!
Psalm 46:10 New Revised Standard Translation

The teacher Paul Tillich once commented that the Bible is God's word not when we think we can grasp it but when we allow it to grasp us.  I would add that if we were ever able to grasp God - that is, able to understand how God works - then we would need to go searching for another God.  Any God that we can grasp, a God that we can fully understand would be far too small to meet our great need.  God is God precisely because God is larger than what our small minds can grasp. 

That is not to say that we can never know anything about God.  Jesus is God's desire to come down from the mystery of heaven and reveal something about himself to us.  God desires for us to know him personally.  This is possible when we enter a personal relationship with his son, Jesus.  Through the life and teachings of Jesus we are given a glimpse of the very character of God. 

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