A hot sunny afternoon, in the scorching heat, Mikhail and Dave are walking up the street. They have missed their bus and prefer walking home. There is long silence and sweat trickles down their faces. Dave breaks the silence… “Mikhail, how would you put for me in simple words God’s impact on Man?”
Mikhail replies: But Dave, there could be a thousand ways one could say “And God is this” and “And God is that” and “God is all this”…”God is all that.”
Dave says: Mikhail, anything that comes to your mind now, anything, think of us today, think of now.
And Mikhail says:
Dave, Think of this street that we are walking on. It is rather unbearably hot day. We both are sweating sea of water. But apart from all that, Can you see our shadows that follow us? These shadows that are formed are peculiar in the sense they are not there all day and they aren’t present anytime we wish to see them. The Sun shines, the shadow appears. We cannot see the shadow if there is no sunlight.
God is that Sun who makes us see things beyond our capacities. The things we cannot see, feel, experience, grasp or understand are ubiquitous but God shines his light often to make shadows of things that we can perceive. By his light, we can see a shadow of himself in all things that can be understood and experienced, visible and unseen. The same shadow that we can see now, due to the light of the sun, often God takes away to demarcate God and Man.
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