Greetings!
What is God? Where are we to find God?
Augustine wrote:
And what is this [God]?
I put my question to the earth, and it replied,
"I am not he";
I questioned everything it held, and they
confessed the same.
I questioned the sea and the great deep,
and the teeming live creatures that crawl,
and they replied,
"We are not God; seek higher."
I questioned the gusty winds,
and every breeze with all its flying creatures
told me,
"Anaximenes was wrong: I am not God."
To the sky I put my question, to sun, moon,
stars,
but they denied me: "We are not the God you
seek."
And to all things which stood around the portals
of my flesh I said,
"Tell me of my God.
You are not he, but tell me something of him."
Then they lifted up their mighty voices and
cried,
"He made us."
My questioning was my attentive spirit,
and their reply, their beauty.
The Confessions, trans. by Maria Boulding, in The Works of St. Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, Part I-Books, volume 1 (New York: New City Press, 1997), X, 6, 9, pp. 242-243.
So let us gladly yearn for God.
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 Grace and Peace,
Dr. James C. Goodloe IV, Executive
Director
Foundation for Reformed Theology
4103 Monument Avenue
Richmond, Virginia 23230
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