The Infinity In Our Human Spiritfeatured
A French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, once wrote: “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ.”
What did this brilliant person meant by this statement? Well, let’s first explore a very important characteristic of God and of us humans.
The Universe is a picture of God
The universe that God spoke into being – what is now known as the Big Bang – is estimated to be around 13.7 to 13.8 billion years old and 94 billion light years across. The incredible size and age of the universe are so incomprehensible to our minds, that we perceive it to be infinite, and that is but a shadow of one of God’s qualities.
When the Infinite One plans and speaks things into existence, they have His “touch of eternity.” The size of the universe is God making a statement to us: “Just as the universe is so big, so am I.”
The Eternity in our human spirit
We all have heard of people who are extremely successful and who apparently have everything including health, riches, and fame, and yet they were not satisfied. We all have heard of sad stories of such people committing suicide. We can easily conclude that they were not happy and not satisfied despite apparently having everything.
It is interesting that we are always looking for something to satisfy us. Yet, as soon as we accomplish or obtain what we wanted, we realize that we are not satisfied for long. That inward sensation that we feel, as if nothing in this world can satisfy us is because our human spirit is also infinite. We are made in the image and likeness of God and our spirit needs to be filled with that which is eternal and infinite: God. We see in the Bible that “He has put eternity in their heart,” Ecclesiastes 3:11.
I am convinced that Blaise Pascal was referring to the vastness of our human spirit, that nothing created can fill. He very appropriately called it “the God-shaped vacuum.”
Our only hope
The Bible teaches that God incarnated as a man named Jesus more than 2,000 years ago: “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us” (John 1:14). He who was infinite, became finite in space and time.
At the age of 33 years, He was crucified, and on the third day He resurrected. We see in the first epistle to the Corinthians, chapter 1:45, that He became a “life-giving Spirit.” It is this Spirit that is compatible with our human spirit and fills our eternal void.
We are not just a body. Look at this verse: “May God Himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:23).
It turns out that the human spirit is just as important as the heavens (the universe): “The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the human spirit within a person” (Zechariah 12:1). Notice that the author, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, speaks of the heavens, the earth, and then the human spirit, which make it clear that the human spirit is just as important as the heavens and the earth.
When we received the Lord Jesus into our hearts, the infinite “void” or that “eternal space” is filled. It is very simple to receive Him. Simply pray the following with a sincere heart: “Lord, I confess I’m a sinful person. I believe that You died on the cross for my sins. I receive You into my heart. Amen.”
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