by Pastor Douglas Brauner

God Makes Himself Known

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It feels like this dumpster is somewhat misleading. On the one hand it proclaims, “Infinite Disposal,” and on the other hand it let’s the user know that it only holds three yards of waste. So it must be infinitely finite if there is such a thing.

Infinite is a word that sounds good and sells well, but it’s impossible to be infinite in the real world. Even the junk that is constantly thrown into this dumpster is finite, headed to some landfill to slowly decompose.

Maybe that is why it is hard for us to understand an infinite God.

“Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.”
Psalm 90:2 English Standard Version

Because we are born and because we die, we view time as having a beginning and an end. As such it is hard, if not impossible, for us to conceive of God having no beginning and no end. A Sunday School teacher, if that person teaches for a few years, will inevitably be asked the question, “When was God born.” It’s difficult to help a child to understand that God has always been.

However, they can understand that this infinite God become finite. God is infinitely finite in the person of Jesus Christ, God in human flesh. The miracle of God becoming human is that what we cannot understand, becomes knowable, touchable, even huggable in Jesus. He has a birth, he has a life, he has a death.

Yet what became finite for us remains infinite and is with us to the end of the ages. This God who is beyond our understanding will always make himself known to us in Jesus. Today, our God who is from everlasting, is with us. He forgives us. He loves us. He has mercy on us. Though Jesus lived at a specific time, what he accomplished for us lasts forever.

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