The paradoxical ascent to God is not easily explained to the logical mind.\u00a0 In simple terms the early Fathers of the faith would use these terms to describe the spiritual \u2018feeling\u2019. The Paradox here is the reality of what\u2019s really going on in the hearts and minds of God\u2019s people at certain times in their lives.<\/p>\n
\u2018The more I know about God, it seems the less I really know\u2019, and \u2018The closer I get to Him and His Essence, the further away He seems.\u2019 This could be some really great knowledge to know in some of our uncertain times. To actually learn by faith and through experience that in those times where I think God is a million miles away He might actually be the closest. I have found that Knowing God is more fitted to my experience than just my learning ability. St Symeon\u00a0said that, \u2018God can only be known by experiencing Him.\u2019\u00a0 My finite mind can not contain or formulate the nature and Person of the Godhead, but I truly enjoy learning and trying. But it seems like every time I go back to certain scriptures that I thought I knew one way, have now changed or added, in the meaning.\u00a0 What I know have learned over the years is that He hasn\u2019t changed but I have been moving \u2018IN HIM\u2019, and now I have a different perspective on the same scriptures I thought I knew by heart a few years back.<\/p>\n
The Paradoxical Ascent can be described in this way. We are from Oklahoma originally, and every year we would take a trip to Colorado to the mountains. It\u2019s a\u00a0drive that for most part is very flat and boring. But there is a point that you get in New Mexico, I\u2019m not sure where exactly, but you can see the whole Rocky Mountain range. And when you get to that point in the trip it changes to excitement because you can see everything.\u00a0 The closer you get into Colorado and actually beginning to go through the mountains, there is a series of descending and ascending. The thing you will notice is you no longer see the whole range just a few mountains. But the closer you get to your destination, for us it was always Mount Crested Butte, you can\u2019t see anything but what\u2019s in front of you. So it is much like the Paradoxical Ascent, the closer I get the further away I seem, and the more I know, the less I know.<\/p>\n
When we first started out in our journey to God there is a point that you think or perceive to see the whole picture. But as you journey on further the closer you get and the less you think you know! Enjoy the journey friends His ways are past finding out, but its fun trying to learn everything we can!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The paradoxical ascent to God is not easily explained to the logical mind.\u00a0 In simple terms the early Fathers of the faith would use these terms to describe the spiritual \u2018feeling\u2019. The Paradox here is the reality of what\u2019s really going on in the hearts and minds of God\u2019s people at certain times in their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,6,7,5,13],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}