{"id":3104,"date":"2014-09-16T09:42:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T13:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revolutionofman.org\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2024-02-03T09:21:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T15:21:59","slug":"trust-in-man-or-the-almighty-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revolutionofman.org\/trust-in-man-or-the-almighty-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust in man or the Almighty ‘I AM’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

God is completely unlike anything we know or can comprehend. Man is very knowable. It seems completely rational that we can trust that which we know over that which we can’t completely comprehend. But, is that really the case?<\/p>\n

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Can we trust in that which we can’t fully comprehend?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Due to a busy life with work and family, writing is a rare pleasure these days. I don’t post on my blog as often as I like but I do continue to journal. I decided to share the outflow of some of the experience here.<\/p>\n

As I wonder down the path of walking with God, each day brings a new experience. I returned to a book that I’ve meaning to finish for several months, ‘The Knowledge of the Holy’ by A.W. Tozer<\/a>. This classic dives into the nature of God.<\/p>\n

The question many ask is ‘What is God like?’<\/strong><\/p>\n

We cannot fully comprehend the infinite because we are finite. Our limited capacity to understand that which is holy (separate and unlike anything we know) brings us to the edge of our understanding. It is at the edge of our understanding that we peer into an expansive and immeasurable light that is pure and endless. Welcome to the brink of the eternal.<\/p>\n

Each step into that which is eternal brings us no closer to the end than the thousand steps before. God alone claims to to be the ‘<\/span>Alpha and Omega<\/a>, the beginning and the ending’ claiming for himself the title of the eternal, almighty God.<\/span><\/p>\n

When we consider time (the measure of change) and space (distance) in light of eternity, we understand that our finite minds are incapable of understanding or fully grasping what we simply refer to as ‘eternity’.<\/p>\n

Where can we establish an anchor on which we can place our trust with finite understanding?<\/strong><\/p>\n

One thing that fully corresponds to our experience of reality is the fact that Jesus Christ brings to light an accurate diagnosis on the malady of the human race, sin and death. ‘The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?<\/a>‘ Death is the result of the disease of sin. We observe the world around us and the evidence proves this to corresponds to reality.<\/p>\n

Malcolm Muggeridge said, \u201cThe depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

If every man’s heart is deceitful and sick, can man be truly trusted? Or can we trust in one who accurately diagnosed the illness and offered a cure? Among many claims that Christ made, the most staggering was his claim to be God in the flesh. He said, “I AM the alpha and omega.” This sets Jesus Christ apart and he stands alone.<\/p>\n

The incarnation, crucifixion and resurrection inject coherence and meaning to the human experience. ‘The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.<\/a>‘ Before Christ suffered, died and rose from the grave, he foretold his experience. Thousands of years before the incarnation, these events were predicted. Through the risen Christ, man can shyly glimpse at the radiant reflection of that which is holy.<\/p>\n

From our expulsion from the garden, through the desert, to the cross, to the empty tomb – the fallen can lay hold of that which the Savior has laid hold of for us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shall we trust in man or the Almighty ‘I AM’?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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