will & t +1

I’m reading Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology in the pockets of quiet I have during the day. Surprisingly, it’s a great book to just pick up and put down, over and over again. It’s rich. So small bites are ideal.

I’m currently in chapter 11: The Incommunicable Attributes of God. Those are big words. Basically, 30 pages define and describe attributes of God that he does not share or “communicate” to others. These are ways God is different. Really different. And I’m more and more grateful everyday that God is not like me. But like himself.

One incommunicable attribute of God (maybe if I use that term more it will sink in…) is his omnipresence. Omni is a latin prefix meaning “all.” So, I guess you could say, he’s all over the place. 

There are philosophical and metaphysical intricacies about this doctrine that I can’t articulate, nor fully understand. But I find this quote of a quote of a quote helpful and laced with hope: 

When you wish to do something evil, you retire from the public into your house where no enemy may see you; from those places of your house which are open and visible to the eyes of men you remove yourself into your room; even in your room you fear some witness from another quarter; your retire into your heart, there you meditate: he is more inward than your heart. Wherever, therefore, you shall have fled, there he is. From yourself, whither will you flee? Will you not follow yourself wherever you shall flee? But since there is One more inward even than yourself, there is no place where you may flee from God angry but to God reconciled. There is no place at all whither you may flee. Will you flee from him? Flee unto him.