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nking outside the box as a way to meditate. Albert Einstein thought outside the box all the time. I’d say he meditated on time and space a lot and then came to some conclusions in 1905 that changed how we think now.
Did he believe in God? He didn’t want to but he eventually did believe – sadly, not in a personal God but in a divine creator.
In 1929, Einstein said “I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.”
Wish he had studied this verse where Jesus talks about how God not only concerns Himself with our fate, He has prepared a place just for us to be with Him.
John 14
1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Albert Einstein‘s work dealing with physics, time and space led him to see harmony and a “beginning” of the universe. Can we see more than we see now by thinking about time and space, the heavens and the earth?
Like Einstein, quantum physics could be part of how Jesus saw what most of us don’t.
When Jesus walked the earth, He talked about the Helper, the Spirit of truth, that some see and some don’t.
John 14: 16,17 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.”
Time And Space
Jesus talked about time and space inside us. That a Helper would be given later and be with his disciples forever, with them and in them. And, as I mentioned earlier, He also talked about a space and time where His Father was.
He said “in my father’s house there are many dwelling places…” Well, where exactly? Did He see the house when He was there or could he also see it while He walked the earth?
He talked about a future time when He would go to His Father’s house and prepare a place for his disciples so that where He would be, there they would be too. Is
time and space real there too?”
Once when Jesus prayed, He started out with “Our Father Who art in heaven… Thy Kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven…” – that sounds like a future time that has literal space on our planet to me.
God Inhabits Eternity?
In Isaiah 57:15 it says in the King James translation, “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place…”
So, it’s a high up place, right? But that’s not all. There’s another place where He dwells that seems pretty lowly to me.
Here’s the rest of 15th verse in Isaiah 57 “…I dwell on a high and holy place and also with the contrite and lowly of spirit in order to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. “
Quantum Physics Must Be Elementary
Have you been taught that God is everywhere, that He inhabits eternity, and that 1000 years is like a day to Him? Me too. I wonder if that has anything to do with quantum physics.
He created time and the space of the universe but what we now know about the body and mind now makes Einstein’s knowledge of quantum physics elementary. Just think of all the dimensions of time and space inside us – how the cells, atoms, protons, neutrons, etc. are integrated such that we are created to be physically, mentally and spiritually human.
Meditation Outside The Box
If you believe the bible, or even if you don’t, just reading it, pondering on it, will sharpen your mind. Meditating on scripture will indeed change your life. Your life will change, and your influence on others will change.
If you are a Christian, then you already probably know that thinking outside the box as a Christian is sometimes frowned upon by religious people. But don’t let that stop you.
The religious leaders of Jesus’ time hated Him. They hated Him even more when His thoughts influenced the lives of countless others.
Yes, meditating on scripture could change you in a way that some people will not like but the High and Exalted One does.
Somehow the High and Exalted One Who dwells on a high and lofty place, also dwells in lowly us if we accept His Son. When that happens, meditation on God’s word is way more powerful than understanding quantum physics.
Just remember, Christian or not, reading and meditating on the bible is different than pondering on anything else. “For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:12)
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