Week 2—Tuesday Hebrews 7:22, 25-28
Hebrews 7:22, 25-28
HASN’T RESOURCES WITHIN ONESELF
Job asks, “Who by searching can find out God?” (see 11:7). The answer is plain in history: No one! For what we find in our upward search for God is not God, but the projection of our thoughts into the heavens and calling it God. It is the Word become word—and earthbound. We create God in the image of our imagination. And this is “no true image.” Apart from Jesus we know little or nothing about God, and what we know is wrong. The Word must become flesh or the Word is a vast question mark.
India is the greatest illustration of the truth of the above. If God the Father could have been discovered through philosophy, then the philosophers of India could have discovered God. For centuries they have piled words on words, but through this multiplicity of words they have not discovered the Word. Someone has facetiously defined philosophy as “the search in a dark room for a black cat which isn’t there.” But there is more than usual truth in that jibe. For philosophic reason has searched in a dark universe for a philosophical God who isn’t there. The highest philosophical thought of India, the Vedanta, came to the conclusion that Brahma, in its highest state, the Niraguna (without relationships) is Sat—Truth, Chit—intelligence, Ananda—bliss. Truth, intelligence, and bliss, but no Love. Reason made God in its own image—bliss through truth and intelligence. But without Love, God is a cold, uninviting Abstraction. Therefore, “Vedanta is the philosophy of a few, the religion of none.” Through philosophy you have come out to a God who is other than God the Father. God the Father could only be revealed by Revelation. No one could imagine or think that the God of the universe would take a body and become human to redeem humans. A love like that just doesn’t exist—not in the categories of philosophy. Here, only seeing is believing. We would never have believed it unless we had seen it. The Word had to become flesh to become credible. Unless the eye had seen and the ear heard, it would never have entered into our hearts what God has prepared for us.
O God, our Father, our hearts are filled with an unutterable joy—a joy too deep for words. We are not knocking at the gates of heaven; you are knocking at the lowly doors of our hearts. What grace, what humility, what love! What we couldn’t dream—we see! Thank you, thank you. Amen.
AFFIRMATION FOR THE DAY: I haven’t resources in myself to complete myself, but I know how to take what God offers.