I enjoy watching new buildings getting higher and higher. It isn’t long before the building is higher than the highest crane. However that is no problem. The workmen put together a new crane on top of what has already been built and so the building goes higher and higher. It is the same with building information. Children know lots more about science than their parents. It isn’t because the children are smarter. It is because they are building on top of what was discovered by those who have gone before. We build on the shoulders of giants thus rising higher and higher.
It is the same with our knowledge of God. Moses and David would have loved to have known as much about God as we know. It isn’t that we are smarter. It is because we have Matthew and John and Paul. Those great men stood on the shoulders of the prophets of old and gave us an ever growing clearer picture of God. We stand on the shoulders of Paul and see even more. It isn’t that we are smarter than they. It isn’t because God loves us more than them. We start from a different position. This is the way it is supposed to be. Proverbs 4:18 says, “But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day.” The God of the Old Testament is the same God as in the New Testament. However the writers of the New had the advantage of seeing Jesus, who said, “If you have seen me you have seen the Father.” In the Old Testament God got blamed for a lot of bad stuff that He didn’t do. One of Jesus’ tasks was to show us the truth about His Father, our Father.
Written by Roger Bothwell on March 17, 2009
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