COMPARISONS TO HELP THE
MIND.
By G. W. S. Ware.
The human mind is beyond comparison with any other intangible thing on earth; yet it is
so limited in power to grasp and understand, that the Lord Jesus Christ had to use
parables to enable the mind to grasp spiritual truths.
Many material things are too vast for the mind to comprehend. A long time ago, I heard
that if an eagle should brush the earth every million years with the tip of his wing,
until the earth was worn away, eternity would be no shorter, which is true, else it would
not be eternity. No mind can grasp the time, for such an eagle to wear away an inch cube
of iron, stone, wood, or dirt. The comparison is unthinkable in detail.
I heard this: that God reached back and brought in all past eternity, and then reaches
forward and brought in all future eternity, and made them one eternity, now. That was
pleasant to hear, and was good oratory for emphasis and gestures, but had no logic, for
past eternity had no beginning, and future eternity no ending. If the preacher had said:
"God has power to make one eternal now of eternity;" my mind could have
understood it much better.
Lots of adjectives are wasted in speaking of eternity: long eternity; anything that is
long has ends; all eternity; "all" has limits; but eternity has none; awful
eternity; eternity is not awful, only to the wicked and devils. Eternity is a need, in
fact a necessity. Without eternity, nothing would be everywhere. There would be no God, no
people, no anything. The sun would be gone, the earth gone, Heaven gone, and Hell too. The
air would be gone too. Everywhere would be utter darkness, of utter nothingness.
Revelations says that certain conditions in life will place man where it would be
better, not to have been born; reveal it coming from inward causes, more than from outward
environment.
The wicked, who tirade against God, because of the eternal punishment, prepared for the
Devil and his angel, regard it as a coming from the outside and closing in on them, to
punish them for being against God; whereas, this punishment comes from within the
individual and goes outward.
Nowhere is it revealed that Demons ever charge God of being unjust, because of their
punishment. They cannot, for it all comes from each one of them. It is so apparent,
it’s impossible for a devil, though a liar, to deny it. The man who prayed to Abraham
in Hell, blamed no-one for his torments, but only asked for a bit of relief. This is why
Jesus said, "Ye must be born again." "All the Heaven a saint will have,
starts from within him put there by the consent of the saint, by all mighty God.
There are degrees in heaven, and no jealousy or partiality for everyone has justice,
according to his works.
GHSW:LHW
G. W. S. Ware
Winder, Georgia.
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