Beyond Anything We Can Imagine

In my anguish I called to the Lord;
I cried to God for help.
From His temple He heard my voice;
my cry came to His ears.

Then the earth reeled and rocked;
the mountains were shaken to their base:
they reeled at His terrible anger.
Smoke came forth from His nostrils
and scorching fire from His mouth:
coals were set ablaze by its heat.

He lowered the heavens and came down,
a black cloud under His feet.
He came enthroned on the cherubim,
He flew on the wings of the wind.

He made the darkness His covering,
the dark waters of the clouds, His tent.
A brightness shone out before Him
with hailstones and flashes of fire.

The Lord thundered in the heavens;
The Most High let His voice be heard.
~Psalm 18:6-13

“So shalt thou reach by contemplation the innermost darkness”
~St. Andrew of Crete

“...in following Him [Christ, the Light] we must gradually let go of all our preconceived notions about Him. Any positive statement we make—for example, ‘God is Light’—pops images into our heads that are based on what we have experienced on earth. But no sunlight or lamplight or starlight that we have ever seen can convey what God is truly like. Every statement we make about Him is, in the end, an analogy to fleeting, earthly things. So, every statement we make about Him, in the end, fails. If we cling to them insistently, we will be clutching nothing but a shadow.

We must give up the comprehensible God, the one lit by matchsticks of feeble human understanding. The God who knows us is beyond anything we can imagine. As far as our minds go, He is robed in incomprehensible darkness.”
~Frederica Mathewes-Green