I am going over my message for tomorrow morning. I'm teaching from Psalm 63 on man's need for transcendence. The dictionary says transcendence means beyond the limits of possible experience. In theology it means God exists apart from the material universe and is uniquely other than everything in creation. The founding fathers said that we are endowed by our creator with certain "inalienable rights." But how can "inalienable rights" be established? Why have the most brilliant philosophical attempts to do so always failed? The answer is simply, "The sense of the world must lie outside the world". There is a thirst in man's heart for transcendence. Only by believing in a God who is other than everything in creation, and is far above and greater than all creation, who made all creation and rules over it, can you experience transcendence.
"So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. Because your steadfast love is better than life" Psalm 63:2-3.
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