Just one more note about our perpetual motion God.
He is endothermic because He allows us to give back to Him. We praise him, we do good for him, "ascribing honor, glory, and power." We cannot possibly increase his energy level, but we feed into him anyway. God admits throughout the bible that His heart is gladdened by his people. Somehow, we add happiness to him.
Yet that very accepting--the very endothermicness of taking from us--throbs with exothermic action. As our frigid little bodies draw near to him, giving him the tiny lack of heat that we are, our actions of love warm our own hearts by nearness to him. "God loves a cheerful giver"--in our giving, we receive love and blessing. Even God's stooping, bending down to accept our love only comes down to another exothermic giving of himself to us.
And yet through all this giving, he keeps on growing in energy. Some mystical way, we feed into him, and his blessing moves through us back to him. "From him" comes blessing, through us, back "to him"--all things work this way. He blesses himself through us, enriching himself, increasing in energy, and in some mystical way, we commune. God's exothermic nature spills over into us and we heat the people around us, and they catch on fire and heat towards God, and that nearness heats them, and it becomes an ever growing river of fire, of energy...
And onward into eternity we go.
He is endothermic because He allows us to give back to Him. We praise him, we do good for him, "ascribing honor, glory, and power." We cannot possibly increase his energy level, but we feed into him anyway. God admits throughout the bible that His heart is gladdened by his people. Somehow, we add happiness to him.
Yet that very accepting--the very endothermicness of taking from us--throbs with exothermic action. As our frigid little bodies draw near to him, giving him the tiny lack of heat that we are, our actions of love warm our own hearts by nearness to him. "God loves a cheerful giver"--in our giving, we receive love and blessing. Even God's stooping, bending down to accept our love only comes down to another exothermic giving of himself to us.
And yet through all this giving, he keeps on growing in energy. Some mystical way, we feed into him, and his blessing moves through us back to him. "From him" comes blessing, through us, back "to him"--all things work this way. He blesses himself through us, enriching himself, increasing in energy, and in some mystical way, we commune. God's exothermic nature spills over into us and we heat the people around us, and they catch on fire and heat towards God, and that nearness heats them, and it becomes an ever growing river of fire, of energy...
And onward into eternity we go.
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