Do not dissect things too much. By the time you have dissected a living thing you have killed it, and you no longer have the thing that you began with. Take a rose out of the bowl, pull its petal apart, count them, weigh them, measure them, and then, while you will have certain interesting information, you no longer have a rose.
There is a place for analysis, but it is apt to be quite fatal in prayer and meditation. Do not dissect the love of God, but feel it. Do not dissect divine intelligence, but realize it. Do not wonder how God can possibly solve this problem, but just watch Him do it in His own way – and He will if you will give Him a chance.
You know that God is Love. So go ahead on that, and do not get theoretical about it.
Do you remember the old verse that says:
A centipede was happy quite,
Until a frog in fun
Said, “Pray, which leg comes after which?”
This raised her mind to such a pitch,
She lay distracted in the ditch,
Considering how to run.
The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall trust in him: and all the upright in heart shall glory (Psalm 64:10).
This is not to say that we should avoid intellectual rigor and natural curiosity or that we should accept less than logical soundness. It is to say that too much of either is a channel for vanity, pride and ego to flow into our spirit and create rivers of doubt and lakes of rationalizations that will impede the passage to our Eden. It means, “trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall see glory”.
Entrusting,
Z gardener
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