Walking With Christ

⚓ Floatie:  Higher Than High

Isaiah 55:8–9  (8)For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.  (9)For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.(ESV)

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✒️ Forge:  The Framework

When people think about God’s standard, they often imagine Him setting a “bar” like in a high jump competition—just something hard to clear.  But that metaphor collapses when we remember that God is infinite.  Infinity isn’t just a really big number.  It’s the absence of boundaries.

A true line doesn’t end.  Two points on that line are no closer to an “end” than any other points, because there is no end.  Between those two points, there are infinite more points.  That’s why the human mind breaks down when trying to wrestle with infinity:  our tools of measure can’t handle it.

In the same way, God’s holiness, wisdom, and righteousness can’t be measured on a scale we can climb.  His “bar” isn’t simply set higher—it is infinite in every direction.

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⚒️ Anvil:  The Challenge

If God’s standard is infinite, then no human effort can reach it.  We don’t fall “a little short”; we fall infinitely short.  That’s why Paul wrote, “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).

This should break our pride.  We like to imagine spiritual growth as progress toward a finish line.  But the truth is harsher:  we can’t even find the line, let alone reach the point God inhabits.

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🔥 Ember:  The Witness

I’ve seen how people shrink God down into something they can picture—a line in the sand, a bar to clear, a scale to climb.  But once you glimpse His infinity, that image shatters.  It’s terrifying at first, because it means no amount of striving will get you there.  But then comes the relief:  Jesus is the infinite God who stepped into the finite.

We don’t have to chase infinity.  Infinity came to us.

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🌿 Covenant Triumph:  The Hope

Job 36:26  Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.(ESV)

Infinity isn’t a problem to solve; it’s the simplest shadow of who God is.  Our hope is not that we’ll someday leap high enough or walk far enough along the line.  Our hope is that Christ—fully infinite, fully holy—covers us in Himself.  He bridges the gap we never could.

The “bar” isn’t just higher than we can reach.  The bar is God Himself.  And only God can lift us to where He is.

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[⚓ Floatie] [✒️ Forge] [⚒️ Anvil] [🔥 Ember] [🌿 Covenant Triumph]
This post follows the Forge Baseline Rule—layered truth for the discerning remnant.