As a math teacher, I can assure you that answering this question is somewhat daunting. Many students don't get it, many of us don't get it.....something goes on forever? What is forever? We are finite and everything in our world is finite, so how can we understand an infinite Creator? The good news is that we don't have to understand Him to follow Him. We can trust God and His infinity just like we trust gravity. His infinity is the reason we can trust Him and the reason He can give our eternal souls eternal salvation! I think that's why He gave us math and circles and pi, so we could glimpse infinity even if we can't understand it fully. Forgive my math lesson, but when you think about a circle and the fact that the constant value, pi is the ratio of every circle's circumference and its diameter no matter what size the circle is, that's incredible.....that's an infinite Creator.
Okay, no more math....my blog isn't supposed to make anyone want to drink! I hope no one is too afraid, I will put the math away.... I got to thinking about this idea today because I read something in my journal from a little over a year ago....."Lord, I feel so often that you are so big and far away, too distant for a personal, intimate relationship with me. Help me to know you more and see you as you really are. Let me trust in your truth over my feelings and emotions, which often overwhelm me. Let me be overwhelmed by You Lord and who you are!" When I read those words, an idea came to me....He illustrates to us every day how we can have intimacy with Him and how we can experience His love. He reminded me that we are all here, in this time, His perfect timing, to love one another and to serve one another and to be here for one another. We are left here to not only share Christ with a dying world, but to be "circles" to other believers. You have left all our little infinite souls to love and be loved, to trust in the One who created us rather than in our own finite feelings that ebb and flow as the tide. But You, Lord, you are are constant and continuing, just like pi. Let me navigate my feelings and changing emotions with you as my guide and nothing else. Your infinite power, not my finite understanding!
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Karolyn
5/17/2020 01:38:53 pm
Beautiful illustrations today. Amen sister!
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CJ
5/19/2020 06:09:55 am
I love your thoughts through words, Amy. Great job!!
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