Let’s say our choice of the greatest men of history could step into our living rooms today: Einstein, who gave us the Theory of Relativity; Da Vinci, who dreamed of helicopters, solar power, and a theory of plate tectonics; Newton, who in a 2005 poll was named more influential in science than Albert Einstein; or Archimedes, a mathematician far ahead of his time.
Perhaps, instead, we’d prefer to meet Steven Hawking, Bach, Faraday, or Socrates, all geniuses in their respective fields. We’d sit and speak with them one-on-one, a conversation for the ages.
Would we understand a word they had to say? This isn’t about the language they speak, Italian, Latin, or English. It’s about the ideas they would convey. Would the thoughts in their heads be so far above our way of thinking that we’d be lost after the first few words?
Would they mess with our minds, as they spoke of Fisher-Trosch Reactions, thermal gradients, and interplanetary fields?
In the field of religion, we face the same conundrum. How can we understand God, the most geniusy genius in all creation? We can’t. We really can’t.
1 Corinthians 1:27 tells us:
“But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.”
How’s that, God? Talk in words we understand, please.
Isaiah 45:18 speaks more clearly:
“For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): ‘I am the Lord, and there is no other.’ ”
Ah, there’s only one God. That’s much easier to understand.
Let’s see if we can wade through this following passage:
Galatians 3:11-14 says:
“Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for ‘The righteous shall live by faith.’ But the law is not of faith, rather ‘The one who does them shall live by them.’ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree’— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.’ ”
Oh, my! Our heads are spinning now. God is messing with our minds, talking in circles, and not making much sense.
The truth is that God is so brilliant, he has to simplify everything he says to us. Just as with Einstein, Hawking, or Faraday, we will struggle to follow his thoughts when we converse. There is something special about conversation, however. The more we talk, the more we begin to understand one another.
With God, our conversation is found in prayer and time in the Word. It’s time to get our talker going and have a chat on a regular basis with our great and mighty God.
The more time we spend in prayer, the more we’ll get to know God.
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