We are reminded, once again, that we are dealing with mysteries here. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Remember the caution about analogy: “No similarity is so great but that the dissimilarity is even greater.” Such statements underscore the transcendence of God. Yet, there is analogy, there is similarity. Otherwise, there would be no point in God’s revelation, no possibility of communication. There would be nothing we could understand, nothing we could trust.
From: Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross by Richard John Neuhaus (New York: Basic Books, 2000), p. 59.
