"While he lived on earth, anticipating death, Jesus cried out in pain and wept in sorrow as he offered up priestly prayers to God. Because he honored God, God answered him. Though he was God's Son, he learned trusting-obedience by what he suffered, just as we do. Then, having arrived at the full stature of his maturity and having been announced by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who believingly obey him."(Hebrews 5:7-10, The Message)
I've always wondered about God, who God really was, what God was really like. I'm still on that journey of discovery. Some days I feel like Indiana Jones on an exciting adventure (except with out the whip and gun and I haven't been chased by bad guys with swords!). But just like Indy, sometimes when I think I have a handle on the answer, I lose it, or at least discover that this is only a small piece of a much larger puzzle. And some of the clues just don't seem to make sense.
The Gospel written in Hebrews reveals a picture of God that sometimes seems to be filled with puzzle pieces that don't go to the same puzzle. It's supposed to be a picture of the Messiah, but what we see goes from above angels to below them, from a throne in heaven to a servant on earth, as a high priest like the mysterious and kingly Melchizedek that Abraham me generations before to one who suffers and dies, even as God's Son. It's like two very different pictures, but it's not.
You know what a mosaic looks like. It's a picture made up of different materials or colors or pictures that when put all together make up something different. The picture above is a mosaic tile floor each tile is about a quarter inch square. There are hundred's of colors, each hand picked to make the picture complete.
There is a new technology that I love. It's called photomosaic. Instead of simple colored tiles, each block in the mosaic is a different picture. Put all the pictures together and it makes something different, a new picture. It's like a quilt or stained glass. It's like a forest made up of different kinds and sizes of trees and plants. It's like the earth, made up of all the different types of landscape, creature, plant, etc.
It's like trying to see God, when all we can see are the pieces. It's why people once thought the earth was flat, they had limited vision. We know what the earth looks like because of our ability to go into space and look back. Even then our view is only partial. There are still places on this earth that have never been visited, or are unreachable.
God is many things: mysterious, loving, creative, harsh, present yet invisible, caring yet untouchable, human yet divine. It's a journey to discover God, one that never has an end while here on earth, because at every turn we see another picture that goes in the great mosaic of who God is. And maybe that's the apt description for God anyway.
God is.
And that's enough for me.
Peace ><>
PC
3 comments:
It was good to see you yesterday Daddy! I'm sorry that we didn't get to talk too much! It's been so hectic around here, and for you too I'm sure! I'll find some time for us to get together! Come visit me soon!
Love you!
I don't think we need to try to figure out God. We know he is always there for us and he gives us unconditional love. To many people are always trying to figure out who and what he is, just accept and know the truth is in the scriptures. God is Great.
It never ceases to amaze me how we can all read the same scripture and each one of us will pick out something different to focus on! God is so awesome! It is also amazing how God has so many differnt "parts" and how each one meets a different need for all of us. I am so He is "EVERYTHING"!
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