The difference between God and us
By zevi770 · February 24, 2012
Imagine this, a scene that is as deep as it is beautiful, as long as it is wide, as dark as it is light, as luminescent as it is grey, as infinite as it is small.
To see this, is to see God.
Now who we are is far simpler.
We are a composite of a body and a soul.
Now the fundamental difference between us and God, for our souls are God, is as follows.
If you think of the first image, it is something that exists but doesn’t exist, shines but doesn’t have to shine, can differ in whatever manifestation it wants, but fundamentally it exists.
On the other hand, we all know that – how old are you, by the way? – our age – being 37, it means, that 38 years ago I didn’t exist in my present format, and after 120 (of course Moshiach will come and we will live eternally but if God forbid not) I still won’t be in my present format.
All in all, I am a subject.
I am subjected to time first and foremost.
I am a subject of circumstances.
I am a subject of my body – healthy or not, God forbid.
So fundamentally do I exist, the answer is yes and no.
I do exist, but not as God exists.
God’s existence is eternal, undefined, infinite and beyond our comprehension, our existence is not eternal, is definable and is primarily subject to change.
And this is the punch-line, God is not subject to change.
We are.
And that’s one of the reasons God made us.
For God unlimited as he is, cannot grow better, but you, yes little you, and little me, subjected to all these infinitely more powerful forces than ourselves, have the unique ability to grow.
Today, must be far better than yesterday, and tomorrow even better.
To grow is to fulfill God’s vision of a living organism, of a soul, of a seeker, of a spiritual journeyer.
Someone who climbs to the highest peaks only to fall to the lowest valleys, only to discover a mountain he never knew existed, a mountain range of peaks higher than his previous ones, and in this eternal climb as our Kabbalah / Chassidus teaches us, 50,000,000 years of eternal growth, man shall finally meet God.