Ephesians 3:17-19
Holman Christian
Standard Bible (HCSB)
17 and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I
pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, 18 may
be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height
and depth of God’s love,19 and to know the Messiah’s
love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of
God.
Some have pointed out that Heaven is a spot on the other
side of the Great Orion Nebula. Furthermore God’s administrative center must be
hidden behind this magnificent nebula.
On the other hand we view that God is the creator or prime
generator of not only our Solar System but of the entire vast universe we detect
beyond it. Whether your concept of this creation stretches back in time to a
monumental week some 6,000 years ago--or to an inconceivably huge big bang some
fourteen billion years ago--or some point of the past in between, you probably
have breathed the query, “What was God doing in the eternity before this
universe?”
St. Augustine quoted someone who quipped in response to this
question, “He was preparing hell for
those who pry into mysteries.”[ii] From
the context of this remark Augustine clearly regarded this answer as an
ill-posed jest.
But seriously, since God is
“the same yesterday, today, and forever;”[iii] He was
undoubtedly creating other universes. Where might he place these other
universes? Well, certainly not within our universe; they must indeed be
“beyond” or “outside” our universe, which was not here before He created it.
It is not impossible that Paul was hinting at a possibly
vaguely understood concept when he expressed a four-dimensional measuring
“length and width, height and depth” of God’s love. This concept just might be
vital for our understanding of the presence of God. If there is another spatial
dimension besides the three in our universe, then God would not have to be in a
heaven over 1344 light years away. He might be just a scant millimeter away in
this fourth spatial dimension and yet be beyond our sensory perception of Him.
Writers of the newly reincarnated science fiction Star Trek
series hint at a similar notion of a space “warp”. How can space be warped
unless it is in a dimension outside of the space itself?
Thank You, Lord, for
being ever close to our side at all time!
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