We start to mature spiritually when we learn to be at peace with uncertainty. Much like when we were innocent children, filled with excitement and awe-filled anticipation for impending discovery, we are no longer anxious about the unknown.
Mysteries, contradictions, and paradoxes no longer stir restlessness but enthusiasm. It is a freedom, a kind of beauty and truth we cannot fully define.
Such is the feeling of experiencing God, the feeling of falling into limitlessness, a void without boundaries, and discovering its rich, supportive, embracing spaciousness where knowing and understanding are no longer necessary. We are being held and so we do not need to “hold” ourselves together.
This could be the ultimate paradox of the God-experience: “falling into the hands of the living God” (Hebrews 10:31). This is the “rest” that Jesus meant, a kind of inactivity where God, where love finally supersedes.
Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest."
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