Do You Put God in a Box?

 

Scriptures tell us that God created the Heavens and the earth. He spoke it into existence and declared “It is good.”

 

What is mind-blowing is that first there is God, then there was Heaven.

Heaven didn’t exist before God . . . Neither did time.

 

God exists outside of time and space. 

Yet we seem to tuck Him away in our finite minds and put God in a box.  

 

When the bible says “With the Lord a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a day,” it is speaking of God’s infinity. God created us to live in time and space as finite creatures.

 

I often wonder what it would be like to see God’s face. The term “beatific vision” means the eternal and direct visual perception of God. It means seeing God face to face. But we know in the book of Exodus, Moses was prevented by God’s own hand from seeing His face.  Anything or anybody who looks upon the face of Our Father would not survive.  Why is this?

Exodus 33:18-23

God, the Father,is Holiness - - powerful, almighty, gloriously pure holiness. If we are honest with ourselves, we should acknowledge that it is our own inability to fully grasp the awesome power and majesty of our Creator.  The proverbial "box" mentality.  It just makes Him too small and that is a sad way to think of God.

 

God is so big, so vast, that if He were to be seen by His creation, it would be obliterated because of sin. So, God had to send His Son, in human form, in order to walk among us, “His Word”. God’s power and will is shown to us thru the “Holy Spirit”.  God’s attributes.

 

It is simple. Evil cannot withstand the light of our good and Holy God.  Whether we want to accept it or not, all of us have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. No matter how much of a good person we think we are, even a speck of evil taints us and, therefore, prevents us from entering the Holy of Holies.

 

Here’s the spoiler-alert.  Something radical will happen to God’s resurrected people. Rev 22:4  It is only because we will be fully righteous in Christ, standing in our resurrected bodies, untainted by sin, that we will be able to see God and live with Him.

 

Can you imagine looking into the eyes of our Creator?

John Burke, a pastor and author who has studied and examined

over 1,000 accounts of near-death experiences, believes these reports

provide faith-building evidence of God and the Bible.

He asks, Do you put God in a box?