When is a circle also a rectangle?

I have been thinking a lot recently about the way God works in our world and the way he works in my life.  It is during this season (Lent) that we reflect on the Son of Man lifted up and by doing so endured pain and scorn.  We pin our hopes on God's divine Word breaking into our lives in the person of Jesus and I think in some way we are amazed by his method.  When we read the words of the prophet Isaiah we connect with God being an everlasting God, creator, powerful, and one who does not tire.  But at least for me, I was caught off guard a bit by this last phrase "his understanding no one can fathom." 

How can a circle also be a rectangle?

Answer: it can if we adjust our perspective and see things in a different dimension.

When we move from two dimensions to a third we see how a circle can also be a rectangle.  The issue becomes one of perception. I have heard a lot of people recently wonder were God is in their life.  The natural assumption is that because my life isn't going well that God has lost interest in my life or has moved on to others.  We seek to understand why his methods are the way they are and we get lost and at times frustrated by our search.  We see God from our perspective which is bound in time, but the words of the prophet Isaiah suggest that the understandings and activities of God function outside of time.  So what are we left with....what knowledge of God do we carry with us when our perception and understanding of God's methods are limited.

Do you not know?

Have you not heard?

The Lord is the everlasting God

The creator of the ends of the earth

He is not going to get tired or worn out

He is not going to stumble and fall

He will renew our strength

(Paraphrase from Isaiah 40:28-31)

"His ways belong to eternity, we to time; his vision is for the world, we are local; his ceaselessness keeps him always ahead of the point we have reach."  J Alec Motyer