The purpose of light is to hold pictures. Your eye doesn't see anything; it just takes a picture, and sends the image to your brain, and your brain tells you what you see. If Moses saw the “back-side of light”, he would have seen where light had been - which would be the past! It would be the past - which is how the rabbis said that he wrote Genesis - without living it.
Imagine Moses sitting there, in the crevasse of the rock: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was formless and darkness; and the spirit of God...” - he saw the past! Moses could only handle God's trace parts. We cannot even begin to comprehend the smallest part of God.
To think that we could ‘figure God out’ puts us past Moses. To think that we could confine God to a particular system of theology is prideful. One of the Hebrew pictures of God is breath. How can we confine that?
Isaiah 26:4, the prophet is commenting on the character of God, and this is what it says: “Trust...”
You don't have to ‘trust’ anything that you already know. You didn't get in the car tonight and go: I trust that I know my way to church. You didn't get in the car tonight, put it in D and hit the gas, and go: well I hope it goes forward and not backwards. You didn't sit on one of these chairs tonight and go: man, I hope this holds me - I'm ‘trusting’ that holds me. No, you know the chair will hold you, you know the car, if you put it in D, is going to go forward. You know your way to church. You know your way.
You don't trust anything that you know fully. Trust, in and of itself, has an unknown element to it. It has something unknown to it.
“Trust in the Lord forever, for in the Lord Jehovah, is the everlasting strength”.
The word for ‘everlasting’ is ‘olam’. Olam is often translated ‘everlasting’; everlasting-life; but the word ‘olam’ actually means: ‘to the vanishing point’, ‘properly concealed’ - it's like chasing the horizon.
The prophet Isaiah is saying that, part of walking with God is: embracing what you can know about Him; but another part of walking with God is ‘the trust factor’. There are things about God we'll never be able to comprehend, because to chase after God, would be chasing after something we will never find the end of. God is so huge, that to embrace this God, is to embrace a God beyond what we can comprehend. This takes faith, because we're stuck in time and space, and God is not.
We can't make time move any faster or any slower. We can only be in one space at one time, and we can't beam ourselves anywhere. God is the exact opposite of that.
In John 4:24, there's this lady, and she says: my ancestors say to worship God on this mountain, and your ancestors say to worship God “on that mountain - what do you say?” And Jesus is like: umm, hold on, don't you get it? Neither is true.
“God is spirit, and they who worship Him, must worship Him in spirit”. You can't confine God like that.
God is as close to you as the air that you're breathing.
As big as He is, eternally huge in the cosmos - He still is infinitely concerned about you, and willing to enter your very breath.
God is so humble, that He's willing to live in your very life, and be carried by you, to make you a divine taxi cab.
In order to live the best life, we have to live our life eternally-conscious that: the Mighty One is in us, and He is bigger than anything we could ever imagine. Jesus is saying: God is not a thing, existing in time or space. Things exist in time and space.
We can define everything by space and time. We know that that's a water bottle, because of the boundaries that it carries: the container that it's in, the way it looks. We know that this is a podium, because of how it looks; the boundaries that make.
God is saying: I'm not that. I'm going to be different than anything you ever know. I'm not going to be definable.
We don't like spirit, because we can't control it. It doesn't obey our rules. With God we lose control, because we can't fathom Him.