THE LORD NEEDS TO SPEAK
TO US THE LORD NEEDS TO SPEAK
TO USThe Lord always wanted a love relationship with human beings. For that reason He created us. To pursue this desire the Lord needs to speak to us. He needs to declare His love to all people. He needs to tell us how to start and foster a love relationship. He needs to assure us that we are free to enter into a love relationship. When the Lord speaks to us, He must do it in such a way that we are in total freedom at all times.
How can we have a relationship with the Lord unless we know Him, and how can we know Him unless He reveals Himself to us and we have the ability to read and understand that revelation?
Communication is only successful if we speak the other person's language. We have to couch our ideas in his terms and his language. It is not very meaningful to ask a person if he has understood us. It is much more meaningful to ask if we have made ourselves understandable, if we have spoken the other person's language.
As human beings we cannot understand God on His level. We do not think His thoughts and we do not speak His language. God had to overcome this tremendous barrier, before He could relate to us.
But God's desire for a love relationship with us is divine, and in this desire God is all powerful, all knowing and everywhere present (omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent). So God is bound to be successful in speaking to us, in revealing divine thoughts to us.
How can the Lord speak our language? When we speak, our thoughts pick up human words. We have learned them in the past. We string them together in sequences, and we try to check if our meaning comes across.
The connections between our thoughts and our words are not static. They change continually. If I write a book today, it will reveal a certain person. But a year from now that person does not exist anymore, because that person has changed.
This is totally different with God, for God does not change. God's thoughts are the same, now and forever, especially because God is outside of time. God is in our present, in our past and in our future at the same time.
So when God approaches human beings, God is first aware of the time frame in which God enters our awareness. Then God takes on the words of people living at that time, arranges them in sequences, and causes these words to be fixed in someway, so they are outside of us. This is an obective revelation available to all of us.
On the basis of that revelation the Lord reveals Himself in a personal way to each one of us, as soon as we begin to read His objective revelation, think about it, and use it in our daily living. This is a subjective revelation.
When the Lord approaches people and speaks to them, the
Lord wants to do it from the outside, so humans can separate their thoughts
from God's thoughts, and accept or reject them in freedom. The Lord first
speaks to angels in the highest heaven. Then He descends to the lower heavens,
and lastly He speaks to people on earth. This process of coming down, gives
Divine revelation a certain construction or a certain nature. Once we know
this nature, we can recognize it in all revelation, and thereby know for
certain what is divine revelation and what is not. This is important, for
now we can be sure that the Lord is speaking to us in a certain book. When
the Lord says that He loves us, we can be very certain about it. Now we
need to learn to recognize and understand divine revelation, and how to
talk back to God. More about this later.
