God is infinite?
How can we wrap our minds around the fact that God is infinite? This thought boggles my mind so deeply that I can literally feel pressure inside my head when I try to imagine living in infiniteness. It is easy to accept that God is infinite, but have you ever thought about how? We can’t completely grasp the thought because we live in a finite world and our minds are limited.
Living in infiniteness would mean there would never be a measurable beginning or a measurable end in anything. You could only ever exist presently because past and future suggest time has passed, and time is based by living in finiteness. You wouldn’t need to travel because traveling takes time, and it would require beginning at a Point A and reaching a destination at a Point B. To be infinite, you would exist at all places presently. You would never be born, and you would never die. You couldn’t be preceded or succeeded. To put it concisely, God’s infiniteness makes him omnipresent.
Psalm 139:7-10
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If you lived infinitely, the thoughts in your head wouldn’t come and go, but rather endless thoughts would appear ever-presently. There would be no need to learn, because if you could have endless thoughts all in the same moment you would know everything. This would mean you’d be omniscient.
Isaiah 40:13-14
Who has understood the mind of the LORD, or instructed him as his counselor? Whom did the LORD consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge or showed him the path of understanding?
Imagine your eyes now. They can only see what you are facing, and that expresses a lot of limits. You are required to turn your head, and are limited to how far off in the distance you can see. In other words, you can only see from the front of your eyes to the end of your vision, and you still don’t see everything in that vision because of all the microscopic things, waves, and particles. Imagine now you could take in every microscopic thing and every wave and particle into your vision. You would see every cell to every atom and every wave and particle that is in your vision. Can you imagine counting all those things? How long would that take you? In a finite world it would take you a very long time to count all those things, but you would eventually finish if given enough time. What if you weren’t bound by time, and endless thoughts existed presently, then wouldn’t know every individual atom in the entire universe all at once? It wouldn’t take you long to count under those circumstances, because the word “long” suggests an extensive period of time, but to be infinite, counting would happen instantly with no start or finish to it. In other words, God is all-seeing too!
Psalm 139:1-5
O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
Infiniteness is knowing everything presently, seeing all things that were, are, and are to come presently, existing in all places presently, and being unbound by time.
Well, my head hurts! Does yours?
What can we learn from trying to understand how God is infinite?
Sometimes God feels distant. I hope you’ll remember that God is infinite and is always with you, and he knows your every thought and emotion you have. He knows absolutely everything about you. If you ever feel distant from God, know that He never went away, but rather check your heart and look to see if you have “distanced yourself” from Him.
God is love. Love is an action, and in order to love something, there must be something to receive the love. God created our finite world so that we could receive his love. In other words, you exist because God wanted to love YOU! Don’t you forget it!
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