Books by Ian Rogers
Books by Ian Rogers
In the final HP book, Harry and his friend Luna go to the Ravenclaw tower to get some vital information from its resident wise ghost. To get in, they have to answer a question which tests their wisdom. The question is; ‛Where do vanished things go?’ Straightforward Harry is baffled but weird Luna gets the answer: “Nowhere, which is to say, everywhere.”
We are just discovering exoplanets - planets that circle distant stars. As yet, it is thought none of the exoplanets has any life. Certainly not the one that is so close to its star that the clouds are vaporised metal and the rain is molten iron! Yet God was, is, and will always be on those planets, from the beginning of time to its end.
God is everywhere and in and through everything - including us - and yet there’s a barrier. We live in God as an amoeba lives in water. Although it is made of 99% water, there is a membrane that keeps the amoeba’s innards in and too much of the water out. If too much water gets in, the amoeba explodes. An exploded, completely dissolved amoeba is not an amoeba anymore.
Saint Paul would have understood this. “God”, he said, “is not far away as some think. In him we live and move and have our being” and yet Paul prays that we may “know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge” (Ephesians 3v19). God is not only with us and in us, he is beyond us - out of our reach, beyond our understanding..
To reach God we not only have to live and move in him (as even slugs and mosquitoes do) we have to allow him to live and move in us in more than the way he is in everything. In John3 v3 Jesus said: “to see… God you must be born again…[of Gods spirit]”. To change the anthology, we may be a plugged in, operating computer but to link to God’s server we need an operating download from him. Otherwise we just produce cyber noise.
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