How is it that we can touch the living God and not be destroyed? Remember how Moses asked God if he could see His face?
(Exo 33:18 KJV) And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.And remember God’s answer about how Moses could not see his face and survive,
(Exo 33:20 KJV) And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.Now stop to think about that. We are told that we can approach the throne of God boldly. We sing about coming into His presence. We believe that we are filled with His spirit. We go to worship services where we talk about the presence of the Holy Spirit.
And we are not destroyed.
My mind goes to different methods of transferring energy. Think of a huge engine driving a massive ocean liner. Picture that drive shaft attached to your liver. You would not have a pleasant experience. Or think about the surging electricity that courses through those high-powered lines you drive under on the interstate. To touch them would fry you beyond recognition and yet, when you do something stupid in your house and get a shock you were able to walk away just kind of shaking your hand and your head.
Somehow, the massive power that comes out of the generators at Hoover Dam is brought down to a manageable level that benefits each and every one of us. I’m not sure what the devices are called. I probably knew it but at my age it’s somewhere in the distant past. However, I know they exist. I don’t know what means God has used to step down his celestial Big Bang power to make it where we can come to the throne. But in this case, I think I do know what it’s called, it’s called Jesus.
I don’t like messing with electricity. I had a guy at the hardware store ask me if I knew anything about electricity because I was looking in that section. When I got through laughing, I explained that it’s one thing I really didn’t know anything about it and didn’t like to mess with. I still plug in my devices and turn them on knowing that they will work. I don’t need to know everything in order to know enough.
The Holy Spirit is called the Comforter not the fryer. And Jesus is our savior not our consumer. Since we can’t adjust to God, He adjusts to us.
homo unius libri
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