Invitation from the Infinite

Invitation from the Infinite

Some time back I began to think

Of the significance of the invitation of God

To Abraham to go to a place

God would show him.

Then I was drawn to the thought

Of the infinite nature of God

Compared to the finite limit

Of man.

It was an early sermon of Spurgeon

That spurred my thoughts

Of the Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent,

Nature of our God

Such characteristics of God

Dictate an unchanging God.

If the Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent,

Should change, He would no longer be – God.

Then I thought of the unusual invitation

God made to Abraham.

“Come and go

To a place I will show you.”

What a wonderful invitation,

From the Infinite,

To the finite –

To walk with Him.

How can it be

That the finite could walk with the Infinite?

That the finite, faulty, incomplete,

Could walk with the Infinite?

This could only happen

At the invitation of the Infinite!

Such a possibility could only be

The gift provided by Him!!!

One of finite mind, and body, and presence

Could not walk with the infinite

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Except by invitation,

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And provision of the infinite.

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How could one who is finite,

Made from the finite,

Occupying a finite world

With finite mind

Walk with the Infinite?

To a place of infinite character,

The place God would show him?

The entirety of the universe cannot contain

The Infinite!!!

How then could the finite

Walk with Him?

And this invitation is given also to you.

The invitation to walk with Him

To a place He will show you –

A place you could not know for the finite cannot know the infinite!!!

“I am the way”

Comes the invitation from Him.

“I go to prepare a place for you.”

Says He.

Because the Infinite

Has chosen the finite,

And offered the finite

A choice to walk with Him

And provided the mechanism

By which the finite

Can be changed,

We have been offered the choice.

We

The finite, faulty, incomplete,

Could walk with the Infinite?

At His invitation?

By His provision?

By our acceptance?

To a place He will show us?

Yes!

I love the thought!

Billy Reese Masten

1/26/14