Well, here goes, my first blog entry. It would be easy I suppose to wax eloquent on a variety of things I know about and make it sound like I know more than I do. But I have grown weary of my own thoughts. In fact, I have found that the more I live and learn, the more I realize how little I know of what is to be known. And while this blog will surely chronicle my thoughts, I hope it will serve to stimulate us to higher thoughts, thoughts about faith and God and life and truth.
So let’s take knowing your self. I know myself and yet I do not. There are parts of me, dimensions, faculties, that are beyond my ability to search out. Sometimes I surprise myself. Sometimes I confuse myself. Sometimes I am not sure what I think or feel or want or believe and other times I am confident about these things. So again, my knowledge even of myself, the person I live with day in and day out, is limited. So I find that I need someone else to inform me of the truth, give definition to me and my life, lead and direct me, clarify my confusion and heal my wounds.
Then take the knowledge of God. To know God, the only God, the eternal God, the triune God, the Creator of heaven and earth, is to know in part. It is to see through a glass darkly, it is to touch what is holy, it is to embrace what is too big for my arms, too deep for my mind, and too grand for my heart.
So the reality is that while I do know God my knowledge of Him is so small. I know God in part but that knowledge is truth. And that is what is important. That is what makes all the difference. That is a gift. Because to know God is eternal life, however small that knowledge may be, if it is true knowledge of God it is of great worth to your soul. The knowledge of God is precisely what I need to be free, to be healed, to be whole.
This is where the knowledge of me and the knowledge of God converge. This is where I live and move and have my being. Right here in this mysterious relationship with God.
So in my first blog entry I thought I should put this out there front and center. First of all because I want to be straight with you about what I do and don’t know. I am on a journey of faith in this life and I am learning and need to continue growing but I do so in this particular context, around the orbit of God and in the kingdom of God on this earth, in this space, and at this time. I also want to be straight with you about whom I serve and to whom I owe everything.
In the beginning was God.
In the end there will be God.
In the middle, in the now, there is God.
He is my peace.
