Unknowable

I've been thinking lately how sometimes God seems so unknowable. The great mysterium tremendum. His ways and thoughts so high above our ways, his plans and purposes often veiled from our eyes. We fall so far short of the glory of God how is it possible for us to now him at all? How does an earthen vessel commune with the potter? Sometimes I think I know nothing of any real importance at all when it comes to the realm of spiritual things. I don't even really know what the simplest of commandments "love thy neighbor" actually means in terms of practice, application and implication. There are even times when I don't think I understand what "Jesus loves me this I know" means. After all, we are in a deplorable spiritual state since the fall, damaged at the deepest inner level of our being, no longer reflecting the glory and image of God as we were designed to. This despondant feeling is of course only a passing one, and it does have remedy......a long steady look at Emmanuel, God with us.

More to come.