Friday, August 11, 2017

Beyond Reason


Connecting with the Creator of the universe requires the most powerful force in the universe that is beyond human comprehension, reason, logic, or proof. The truth of God comes only His way—by faith. It is only by your spirit that you can transcend the limitations of your mind.

August’s Awakening, Day 11

God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.

 —Thomas Aquinas 

Human reason cannot begin to answer the great questions as to what God is in himself, and what he is in relation to us.

 —John Calvin 

The ultimate purpose of reason is to bring us to the place where we can see that there is a limit to reason.

 —Blaise Pascal 

 

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8–9 NIV 

 

“How long will you who are simple love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? Repent at my rebuke! Then I will pour out my thoughts to you, I will make known to you my teachings. But since you refuse to listen when I call and no one pays attention when I stretch out my hand, since you disregard all my advice and do not accept my rebuke, I in turn will laugh when disaster strikes you; I will mock when calamity overtakes you—when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you. “Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me, since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord. Since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes. For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.”  Proverbs 1:22–33 NIV  

 

            God is beyond reason. God is beyond proof. God is beyond the limitations of the human intellect. The truth of God requires a spiritual connection with God through the most powerful force in this universe—faith. Reason, logic, proof, and intellect can only take you to the limits of the known knowledge base. Faith propels you via light speed directly to the source of all knowledge—God Himself. Faith is like the elusive worm hole in the space-time continuum that gets you to the places impossible to reach in any other way.

            God’s thoughts, higher than our thoughts, God’s ways, higher than our ways. We come to God on His terms, not ours, not logic, not reason, not proof, not intellect, but truth through faith. God’s way. It requires your spirit to connect with His, and that only comes about through faith. There is nothing more powerful in this entire universe than that connection through faith with God.

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