The Quest for God
In Isaiah 55:9, God tells us, "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts."
Men seek the right relationship with God but because His will, and His thoughts are unknown to us, we tremble at every step that it might sever the loving relationship.
Such fear disappears only when we pass from relationship with God to possession of God.
In Jesus, the Son of God became man. A marriage feast between the divine and the human natures took place.
I can now say, " I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine" (Song 6:3). He is my possession. He disposes of me, but I also dispose of Him . It is no longer a relationship between two entities who can at any moment become separate. The barrier is broken by Christ. God is no longer alone, and the tormented heart of man is no longer single. The heart now responds to God in Shakespeare's words: "No more can I be severed from your side, than can yourself in two divide" {Henry VT).
The difficulty of not understanding God's way disappears. " Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why have You made me like this?” (Romans 9:20). The soul which possesses God knows that His control of the World cannot be judged by man’s myoptic view. " The deceived and the deceiver are His” (Job 12:16). He who possesses God is satisfied with this and asks no questions.
On the last day, the Lord will say to some, "I never knew you” (Matthew 7:23). The Creator longs to know His creation.
He created us, but not as creatures who would remain apart from Himself; He created us that we might live and move and have our being in Him (Acts 17:28). He desires union with us in eternal embrace and not as a knower/known duality. Those rejected in the end will be those who have not realized this and have remained knowers about God, but who do not know Him intimately through communion with His Son.
They have had a relationship with a distant God, perhaps even a good relationship, prophesying in His name and casting out devils and doing many wonderful works (Matthew 7:22), but they remained separate from God, unpossessed of Him. They did not belong to their Beloved, and their Beloved was not theirs.
In our quest to know God, we find eternal life. "This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent" (John 17:3).
Richard Wurmbrand