7259	Forums / Theology Forum / Orthodoxy - Chesterton	on: July 11, 2007, 07:55:22 PM
Our view of reality is very limited because we cannot comprehend the entire scope of the people and things that effect our lives. We are finite and we live in an infinite universe. We cannot even understand the mind of God at the level of His working in those things that are unseen so that we are passing through this spiritual dullness with the maximum amount of the effect of Gods presence as bright as it could be not close to piercing the darkness of our present surroundings and circumstances. It is like Christ walking on the earth, the glory of God, yet veiled. And even when the apostles were given a glimpse of that gloriousness in those tabernacles of heaven, yet that did not match what is Gods view of things in this world. There must be a place that we can go to taste and experience something above what we see in this world, and what we feel as a result of being encumbered by being trapped in this flesh and the corrupted understanding from our limited view of the realness of eternal things because of our inward dark experiences. We are more apt to draw conclusions by what goes on inside of our souls, being so unaware of all of the intricate details that transpire around us because we are limited in our space in our so, so,  small world. God offers us a glimpse of eternity. Its not just what happens to our souls as a result of salvation but it is what happens to our view of eternity outside of our little world that is being changed. And yet all of these things that we cannot possibly know being finite , are transpiring around us for our good by a greater person with an eternal view. We only understand that concept as we grow in our faith, because faith is seeing things that are unseen. Our view of life in this finite space is dependent upon seeing these things through Gods revealing them to us. And we know they are as real as those things that we can touch, taste and feel. We are so prone to be captivated by our inwardness and our finiteness that we fail to rise above these dispositional prisons. And yet we are able to rise up above these very limited view of reality by the amount of assurance we are able to have in that revelation. What we sometimes do is limit our ability to rise above our limited view because we either do not understand the nature of this assurance, or we limit God by placing limits on His divine assurance that He has never said He would limit to us, or we are under a great burden or trial so that we are only left to morn under the weight of this dark experience rising up only a small amount but then being under the confusion once again. If we learn to be assured by God speaking to us through His word, then what we know about this assurance will become more and more personal to us so that we will be convinced by our faith having an experiential aspect that is beyond normal. Being convinced of things unseen is being under the power of those unseen things. And being assured while under that power brings about a supernatural ability to know those things having a greater understanding of what will transpire around us in the future. We will be less trusting of our own way and more resting in His power.