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The Weight of God

Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a sabbath. These are only a shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.

This verse reminds me of what the book of Hebrew states. That the temple on earth, the altar, the rituals of each holiday, that the staff and the sceptre are but symbols. They are but shadows of what is real. Science studies the physical elements of this universe and states that this is what is real whereas the Scriptures say this physical universe is just a shadow of true reality.. the substance of which is held in Christ. Spiritual things are not ethereal, flighty, vaporous, but are solid, weighty, firm. They are things of substance... and we worship this weighty reality which is spiritual and we worship that wisdom which surpasses all knowledge which is truth.

With this realization as stated above, how do we worship God. Do we see Him high and lifted up as though lighter than air, or do we see Him high and lifted up as those heavier than this earth suspended in space. If we see Him as lighter than air, we tend to think of Him as having no substance, but God is the opposite. He is all substance. I am told that dark matter and black holes in space are heavy. That black holes have increasing weight and gravity as they approach the centre where weight and gravity reach infinity... Our God is heavier than infinity. Our God is more substantial than weight itself. Our God is more True than truth. Our God so real, He surpasses what we know as reality.

And all of this is found in Christ. He is the substance of all things.