The fourth main aspect of God is Intelligence. When you clearly realize that this is an intelligent universe it will make a major difference in you life. In an intelligent universe there cannot be disharmony because all ideas must work together for the common good. Neither can there be any lack. An engine that has been intelligently designed does not have any unnecessary parts and neither are any essential parts lacking.
It is especially important to realize that God is Intelligence because it sometimes happens that when people outgrow the childish idea that God is just a magnified man, they go to the opposite extreme and think of God as a blind force, like gravity or electricity. This means that they have lost all sense of the Love and Fatherhood of God, and such an idea is very little better than a subtle form of atheism.
God is not a person in the usual sense of the word, but God has every quality of personality except its limitation. The human mind cannot imagine personality that is not limited, but this difficulty arises from the limitation of the human mind itself, and of course this does not affect the nature of God. The Bible says, in effect, whatever you think I am, that will I be to you; this means that if we attribute to God every quality of an infinite, intelligent, loving personality, God will be just that to us. So we may say that we believe in a personal God.
Children and young people respond very readily indeed to a prayer for expression of Intelligence through them. If you are interested in a young person at college, pray several times a week that Intelligence will manifest through him and you will be surprised to find how his progress in his studies will increase. Remember also the wonderful fact that when you work for a person the result will be with him for the rest of his life.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! …(Romans 11:33).
God is intelligence, and he gave us our intellect so that we would be empowered to create and to discern and understand the universe he created for us. When we use that intelligence to raise questions and ponder God’s mysteries, we are not turning from God but are in fact using a gift to seek fuller understanding, greater faith and closer communion. If we use that gift to deny or refuse God, then we are misusing the gift and will experience less understanding, an erosion of faith and alienation from God. Each gift given to us by God must be used wisely and for good purposes. Then we will find the answers and the peace and fulfillment we seek and that God wants us to have.
In discernment,
Z gardener
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