Do Not Allow Those Cosmic Tensions to Trouble You

There’s paradox present in the very being of God: The Father is God, but the Father is not the Son, and the Son is God, but the Son is not the Father, and so on and so forth. And if there’s paradox in the being of God, we should fully expect to find the same thing in the creation of God, as well as in His ways and doings. This is why you should not allow those cosmic tensions to trouble you. Just as you will never get to the bottom of the trinity, you will never get to the bottom, for instance, of the relationship between God’s sovereignty and man’s freedom. Ponder it, yes. Meditate on it, surely. But find rest in allowing it to be the eternal mystery that it is. This is part of what it means to have faith.

And should we expect anything less? Should we expect God, the maker of heaven and earth, to be simple, like us? Can the clay compare itself to the potter? Can the clay even comprehend the potter?

The incomprehensibility of this Principal Paradox need not frighten us. For as Chesterton once said: “The use of paradox is to awaken the mind.”

“A paradox,” said Peter Kurowski, “is the wedding of two [or three] seemingly contradictory truths that form a deeper truth.” God is that deeper truth, the deepest truth.