Augustine contemplates another mystery. When we call upon God we call him into us. How is it that we can contain him? What capacity do we that God could come into? What capacity could the entirety of the heavens and earth have to contain God for that matter? Or is it that, as Paul spoke to the Athenians, that all things move and have their being in God. All things created have a capacity for God else they would not exist at all. But if this is the case then where exactly do we call God from?
He does not answer these questions so much as pose them to himself in an act of worship. There is something incredible revealed in this mystery. We begin to see how very small we are and how very large God is, the God who fills the heavens and the earth yet will come into us in a special way if we ask it of Him. In God's largeness and transcendence there is intimacy and closeness.
No comments:
Post a Comment