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Where is our God?
We live in a world where human wisdom is exalted. We try to explain everything in terms that humans can relate to. It is difficult for us to conceive of the Divine and of the Spirit because it is an existence that we cannot see or touch or sense.
God is divine. His thoughts are far above our thoughts ( Isaiah 55:8). God works in subtlety and paradox which we find curious and often beyond our expectations.
Consider, for instance, how God represented Himself to the nation of Israel in the Old Testament. He gave instructions for the building of the Ark of the Covenant and the mercy seat that was to sit atop the ark. Two cherubim sat on either side of the mercy seat, flanking a space in which there was... nothing!
God told Moses, "I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim" (Exodus 25:17-22). So God chose the place to meet with Moses where there was... nothing!
Man, in his wisdom, would have placed some image there to represent our concept of God, but God chose...nothing! This reflects God's emphasis the He is a Spirit and the no image concocted by mand could adequately represent Him. The nothingness between the cherubim signified a God who transcends the visible. It signifies a God who does not want to be represented by some man-made object.
Then God chose to compress Himself in human form and live among mankind, and yet still retained all of the attributes of God. Man makes images of wood and stone, God gave us a second Adam. Yet, once again we have no permanent image of Jesus. No physical description. No likeness carved out of wood or stone to represent what he looked like.
And when Jesus died, the divine paradoxes multiplied The God who is all powerful and Who created mankind allowed himself to be put to a physical death in order to achieve the greatest victory of all.
And how was he reveled on that third day when the women came to the tomb? Through an empty space between the two angels in the tomb! (Luke 24: 1-10).
Our God, He is alive, Hallelujah, Christ arose!
