On a night like this… a Friday, when I don’t have anywhere to be the next morning… I look out into the dark sky, at all the stars, and I try to imagine God. I don’t think he looks at all sinister like Eternity from Marvel Comics, this is the best graphic image I can think of to describe how I see God.
Imagine all the planets, the stars, the galaxies, and the deep, impenetrable mysteries of space, and imagine them all living within the one we call God. Divorce yourself from the cartoon image for a moment. Go outside. Look at the stars (if you can see any). Imagine that the moon, the sun, and everything you see out there occupies massive space, yet they and we all exist within God.
That’s not to say that we are God, or that God is a personality-less spirit. Just imagine an eternal being… a supreme being who is not so much inanimate as he is beyond your ability to comprehend. Your mental faculties cannot wrap themselves around the awesomeness that is God.
The beauty of this image is that no matter how deep into space you imagine, you are not any closer to escaping God. You cannot get farther from him or closer to him physically. He contains all things and by him all things exist.
One of the points of this blog is to explore the doubts, the ideas, and the beliefs I’ve grown up with to see which ones actually fit: what makes sense, what is illogical, and what is purely speculative.
This is the perfect example. I form this thought as often as I can remember. It helps me to imagine a God I cannot fathom.
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