Understanding God

Abhey Blaggan, 01.06.05

God’s path is the easiest to understand, the easiest to follow, but the hardest to achieve.

 

Understanding God is one thing, and realizing his power is another.

 

There is a story of a man walking along the beach, beside the mighty ocean, he is trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of creation. As he walks on, he notices a young boy carrying buckets of water from the ocean to a small hole he had dug in the sand. Again and again the boy went back and forth from the ocean to the hole. Each time he tipped the water in, it was absorbed through the wet sand and disappeared.  The man asked the child what he was doing. The boy replied, “I’m emptying the sea into this hole I have dug”.

 

“Don’t be silly”, said the man. “That’s impossible”. The boy was no ordinary boy, he knew what the man had been thinking as he walked along the beach. The boy laughed and said, “if you think that’s impossible, I’ll tell you something equally silly. There’s a man I know who’s trying to understand life’s mystery with his mind.”

Trying to describe God in words could be seen as an equally impossible task. One can certainly write about God’s activities; one can write about God’s life events of his life; but to attempt to convey who he is, and claim to convey anything close to the truth would be as foolish as the activities of both the boy and the man.