God's Perfection is Not Our Perception
Chapel topic of the day: God's immutability, his unchanging nature.
The speaker's words about God's perfection and his unchangeability have resonated with me all day. They've been turning around in my mind; ruminating. We know God is perfect, but we don't really know what perfect is. We are relative creatures.
What we see is what we know and knowledge of something we don't see is often based on its relativity to things we do see. I find examples of this all around me. It's in the ancient philosophers who in their effort to describe the smallest thing, which all other things are made of, couldn't escape describing it in terms of something they knew. It's in the way we describe the Trinity to a child. It's in the way we give directions (you know where the McDonald's is, across from the Exxon; turn right and go another half mile and then you will see . . .).
So how do we fathom a God who is beyond the things we can comprehend? When we say He is perfect, do we really understand? What is "perfect"? One definition is: excellent or complete beyond practical or theoretical improvement. What does it mean when we describe God that way?
It fascinates me, and I don't have any answers.
The speaker's words about God's perfection and his unchangeability have resonated with me all day. They've been turning around in my mind; ruminating. We know God is perfect, but we don't really know what perfect is. We are relative creatures.
What we see is what we know and knowledge of something we don't see is often based on its relativity to things we do see. I find examples of this all around me. It's in the ancient philosophers who in their effort to describe the smallest thing, which all other things are made of, couldn't escape describing it in terms of something they knew. It's in the way we describe the Trinity to a child. It's in the way we give directions (you know where the McDonald's is, across from the Exxon; turn right and go another half mile and then you will see . . .).
So how do we fathom a God who is beyond the things we can comprehend? When we say He is perfect, do we really understand? What is "perfect"? One definition is: excellent or complete beyond practical or theoretical improvement. What does it mean when we describe God that way?
It fascinates me, and I don't have any answers.
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