Taste...see for yourself

“And no sneers at the limitations of logic either…amend the dilemma” – I. A. Richards.

Many probably experience the limitations of “logic and reasoning” when examining the ways of the living God (Christ Jesus). However, He is in no way committed to our “logical constructs”. We have been trained to build logical frameworks around everything. Think of the number of times you use…“If so-and-so then…” etc. When dealing with God our “logical constructs” are woefully inadequate. If we could dissect Him with logic…He wouldn’t be much of a God now would He? He has to be experienced to be believed. You cannot tell what goes bump in the night by reasoning alone. At some point you will have to abandon reason and go see for yourself. That is why we are exhorted to…“Taste and see that the Lord is good…” (Psalm 34:8).

We cannot put God in a box (logical framework). He is differently related to our “time and space” (but not cut off from it). This is why He can do anything including: “become man”, walk on water, transfigure…perform miracles. Best of all…He can lay down His life and take it up again. No one took it from Him (John 10:18). God is timeless…so that what “was”, “is now” and “will be”…all “happen at the same time” for Him. Time is really a mode of perception…not something that exists in-and-of-itself (now I know why He used parables!). C.S. Lewis puts it well: “The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.” He is a Spirit…Spirit gives birth to Spirit. The flesh is confined to “this time and space” we call reality (more like Satan’s dream world). The Spirit…as God showed when He “became man”…is not. Don’t take my word for it. Read His…taste and see for yourself…Jeremiah 29:13 “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”