Opus 2025-266: The Paradox of Providence

The grander and majesty of God are really impossible to express in human language.  The best we can come up with is pale in comparison to the reality.  He is someone that you must use your words as far as the go, and then take the leap into the feeling in the senses of who God is.  That is at one end of the spectrum.  God defines infinity plus one.

At the other end of the scale, you find “Abba, Father”.  This is the way Jesus taught us to address Him.  This is what allows us to approach Him and to relate to Him.  Of course, we are able to approach the throne with boldness, because of the sacrifice of Jesus but once we have gone through that born-again moment, once we are regenerated, once we have become a child of God, we are granted access.  And it is a glorious access.

God is the example for what Christian fatherhood should be like.  I’m trying to draw a picture of the two paragraphs above in our daily lives.  I wanted to go to an emperor with total power having his child run into the throne room during an important meeting.  I have to ask you to make an allowance for an awareness that pagan and heathen emperors might not respond the way a Christian emperor would respond.  That is because I have an inner belief that people who are untouched by the living God may love their children, but they can’t love them with the same intensity God places in our hearts.

That being said, how would this emperor respond when his child disrupts his business.  He might pick him up, ignore the frowns of others, put them on his lap and go on with his business.  He might pick him up and put them in the nanny’s hands and send him on his way.  He might put him on a chair and hope he learns something from listening.  He might speak to him sternly and point toward the door.  His response depends upon what he sees in the child’s attitude, and what he sees as the child’s ability to understand and grow.

I think God works with us in the same way.  There are times when He just kind of wraps his arms around us and picks us up and lets us babble on.  There are times when He puts this in the hands of someone else for instruction.  There are times when He gets us to watch.  There are many different ways in which God responds.  We need to understand that how He responds to us ultimately depends on first what he’s trying to accomplish and second what is best for us.

What an opportunity to grow.

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