Every day of our life we think of a thousand things but have we ever thought of “that than which nothing greater can be thought of”? We can never think of God as he really is because our minds are incapable of grasping the ‘Godness’ of God. God has very rightly spoken, ‘I AM, WHO I AM,’ (ex.3, 16). We are limited to this world and try to find out whether God exists, whether he is merely a concept or a reality and many such questions which arise in our minds. But for me, God is beyond all this. There is something beyond existence, beyond concepts, something much beyond our imagination and actually of what we think of. God certainly cannot be limited to our thinking and our language, nor to things that belong to this world. God IS that which transcends even that which we cannot think of. Our minds can think only in terms of space and time but for God, “a thousand years are like yesterday come and gone.” He is beyond space and time. God IS, in no space and time. God IS beyond our imagination. We could not have known God if it had not have been for Jesus Christ who poured his love and peace on the whole of humanity. It is Jesus’ love that transforms us and makes us love God. Jesus spoke to us of the Father, but surely He did not speak to us as He really IS – indirectly saying something think about it.
We may be thinking of ourselves as great thinkers bringing forth many ideas of God with all the possible reasons, and each of us will be having different views with all the necessary arguments. We may have innumerable notions of God that emerge from the world of science and religions but it will be as good as what St Thomas Aquinas says after knowing the truth that ‘all what I have written is straw’. One thing that we see in his statement is that he does not totally disagree with what he has written. There is an element of truth in it. When he uses the word ‘straw’, it is not a thing which is totally useless. You can do something with it, it is not nothing – give a thinking thought to this think.
There are so many questions that we raise, probably some day we will find answers that will satisfy our desire but for me those answers will only be straw and noting else compared to the ‘I AM’. Yet we must not stop our search for the trUth because in it there is an element of The TRUTH. There may be questionable answers and there may be answerable questions but The Truth remains, something which we will not know completely in this life – pause here and think as to what I am saying is a possible trUth.
Jesus did not come to start a religion and so also I think of the saints and the prophets and Holy HUmans of the world. They came to show you and me, how to live so as to….what??? reflect and think But you and I,…to see what is beyond.
You may find these questions a bit or rather too creepy but give a thinking thought to this wild growing creeper: Who is the What?, What is the What?, Where is the What?, Why is the What? These questions can go on and on but this is what I think as to, what can we really know about God. We can only play with words as we play with …what??? Think as to what, You and I, normally play in our day-to-day lives.
Let us continue in thinking and searching about the truth, that God Is….
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