Opus 2024-365: Make up words

As I was thinking about how hard it is to describe God I had a couple of thoughts.  I know that surprises you, but that’s the way it goes.

First, I had a thought that our attempts to describe God as feeble as they are, might bring him pleasure.  Yes, I know God is complete, and doesn’t need our input.  Yes, I know that we cannot add to him.  But somehow I believe in His creation of creatures who are made in his image part of what He is looking for is that voluntary, spontaneous, free-will praise and adoration.  That can only come from us as human beings.

Second, I’m thinking that when we get to eternity, we will spend a lot of time making up words in order to try and describe God.  We will speak/write a book, trying to describe something that we have observed, or experienced about God, and then we will make up a word to go along with that book.  The word did not exist before but all of the ideas in the book did.  We just put them together and make it so that instead of having somebody present “an entire book” every time they want to talk about God, they simply use that word.

What a life that will be as we add in a sense to the vocabulary of eternity.  Of course, we won’t even be coming close to describing him.  But as two times infinity still equals infinity, there will be a sense in which we are closer and yet just as far away.

What a journey that will be.

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