These essays are written in sequence and build on each other. Read the preceding essay here.
Because of our anthropomorphic thinking habits (discussed at length in earlier essays), we tend to think of “God’s Laws” in the same way we think of human laws.
Human laws are very limited. They are not alive. They express human desires and intentions which may be obeyed or disobeyed. They have no inherent life force, so a living human being has to “en-force” them.
Human laws bear no resemblance to God’s Laws, which are living and all-powerful. In the same way human laws are less alive than we are, we are less alive than God’s Laws.
One way of thinking about God’s Laws, the Divine Laws, is to simply think of them as God’s Power. The Power that drives Creation.
This Power does not work randomly, but in a specific way willed by God. Hence the word “Law“.
So we can think God’s Power when we think of God’s Laws. And we can use the terms God’s Power, God’s Laws, and Laws of Creation interchangeably. And all of these express God’s Will.
No man knoweth the Son,
— KJV, Matt 11:27
but the Father;
neither knoweth any man the Father,
save the Son,
and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him
If the Almighty were a powerless god, man would not seek him out in times of need; man seeks Him because of His Power.
So when we speak of “encounters” with God it is more correct to say encounters with His Power, which is living and infinite, and which courses through the entire Creation.
Thinking people would agree that God does not come down from His Throne to deal with every mundane issue that affects or interests us. The coming of God is a very big deal (the biggest of big deals, in fact) as attested to by the centuries of prophecy and preparation that preceded the coming of The Word through Christ.
But He does not need to come, because we have access to Him through His Living Power, which He has made available in Creation. The Word came to us because we had gone so far astray that we could no longer align with His Will and thus could not use His Living Power correctly.
That is to say, The Word came to us so that we could learn to live according to His Living Laws, and thus “know Him”.
He that hath my commandments,
John 14:21
and keepeth them,
he it is that loveth me:
and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father,
and I will love him,
and will manifest myself to him.
Since this Power works in a certain way (a certain lawfulness) it is clear that those who live a life that aligns with this certain way are sure to be helped by the Power, and those who do not will be harmed by It.
Within this Living and Almighty Power are contained all the things we think of as “good”: love, beauty, harmony, perfection, etc.
The Divine Laws work automatically, consistently, and unchangeably, with perfect love and wisdom. They are not robotic like a computer program or dead like written human laws.
Therefore when we seek God in prayer we are seeking support from the Power in God’s Laws, which will respond according to our own nature.
We interface to God through His Power i.e. the Laws of Creation, and the key to interfacing successfully is The Word.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets:
— Matt 5:17-18
I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
For verily I say unto you,
Till heaven and earth pass,
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law,
till all be fulfilled.
We have indicated at various times that God never acts contrary to His Laws, since His Will is perfect. This perfection implies unchangeableness, which implies that God would not change his mind or act contrary to that which He has already established.
Some people read such words and think that this implies a “limitation” – that God “cannot do” anything He “wants to do”. This is another error arising from anthropomorphic thinking.
The Almighty is not “limited” in any way. That a man with a loaded gun does not shoot himself does not imply a limitation on his part or on that of the gun; it just implies that the action makes no sense.
God acting against His own Perfect Power (Laws) would “make no sense”. It is beneath Him. Beneath in a literal sense since He is the Highest, and it is only lower creatures like man that are imperfect and capable of acting in ways that are limited and in need of constant change and fine-tuning.
It is only our understanding of the Divine Laws and The Word that changes and evolves, and in this we sometimes think that it was God that changed.
Today’s Resolution
- We shall give thanks to God for sending us The Word, through which he extends the understanding of His Power to us.
The Word, (Re)Discovered 