Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent

I don't expect to have complete understanding of God.

Part of the love I have for my husband is the mystery of knowing new things about him all the time. He is always new to me and yet, always the same. Part of the fun of marriage is the discovery of new things about him all the time. My love for God is the same, I know him, but I learn new things about him all the time because it is impossible for me to 'completely' know him. Not because he is always changing, but because there is so much to know, it is impossible for me in my human 'finity' to have a complete grasp of his 'infinity.'

In addition, I am always changing. As I learn and grow, my relationship with God changes and grows. I understand love better, and since God is love, I am better able to share what I have learned, better able to share the love that I have learned about. By knowing Jesus, I know God. If you love Jesus, then you love the Father, because if you know the Father, then you know that Jesus is the perfect reflection of that love.

If you are trying to completely 'know' and 'understand' God, that is a good thing. If you presume that you are going to succeed, then you presume that god is Man's creation, rather than man being God's creation. That is not a good thing.God's omnipotence (all powerful) means that we cannot understand his power. We are not all powerful, therefore, we cannot understand God's power.

We attempt to define something whose definition is SET by God. He who makes the rules gets to set the definition for those rules. Just because we might not understand the rules does not mean they don't exist, it just means that we are not advanced enough to understand them. The fact is, God exists outside of our understanding of time, outside of spacial limitations, outside of 'our' human understanding. He is greater than all of these finite experiences because he is infinite.

1 John 4:16

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

1 Corinthians 13:4-12

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

Galatians 5:19-23

The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

God bless.