In our physical framework or realm, it is very hard to conceive of nebulous, ethereal concepts. I remember, as a child in Sunday school, being told that "man cannot look upon the visage of God". With my very limited reasoning capacity at that time, I "pictured" God as some fearsome man whose face was so terrifying that to look upon it would cause instant death.

As I grew older, that concept changed somewhat, to God as a man whose face was so awesomely pure and bright that to look upon it would cause instant blindness. As I grew into my teenage years, and learned physics and the "reality" of the world, the concept of God changed again, into an unknown with which I was not particularly concerned. Instead I was learning "self-determination", "positive thinking" and the like, and didn't have time for thoughts of God at all.

With the growth of my spiritual awareness over the past sixteen years, I have had ever-changing concepts of God. Currently I have a very comfortable understanding of a Being unlike anything we can conceptualize with our limited minds. This Being is Energy, that necessarily includes all energy that we know of, and all that we don't. It exists in all forms we know, and all those we don't. It includes matter, but is not limited to matter.

I am comfortable with that concept because it embraces all previous concepts I have ever learned, and explains why and how God can be "omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent". If that Energy simply IS, it includes all things and therefore "knows" all things (omniscient). Likewise, it makes up all things, and thus is omnipresent. And as it makes up all things and includes all things, and is intelligent, it can change all things and is thus omnipotent. Thus, God is not like any kind of man at all, and has no face to look upon.

But more, I now can understand why those words were written so many years ago, for the limited reasoning power of mankind, which has grown dramatically over the past few thousand years, could not comprehend the concepts we accept as normal today. And thus I now understand the meaning of that old teaching was that "man cannot comprehend the concept of God".

In working today with those whose consciousness is just starting to expand, I find great difficulty in conveying these abstract concepts in a manner acceptable to a limited belief system. And then God gave me a wonderful analogy that is easily grasped, Clouds.

Looking at a clear, blue sky, we see there is nothing there. Yet though we cannot "see" the tiny particles that make up what is "there", we can accept the concept that "something" is there that we cannot see. Looking at the same sky later, we can see that clouds have formed from the "nothingness", and are now visible. These clouds can be of many different types, and take an infinite variety of different shapes, yet all are composed of the tiniest of water particles.

If we apply that concept to the "nothingness" that is God, before creation, we can understand that energy, unseen, unfelt and unexpressed, could exist. And from those tiniest of particles of energy, It could create form, like clouds in the sky. And that form could be the "heavens and the earth", and all "things" under the sun, including man.

And because It created those forms (clouds) of Itself, It would be the omnipresent I AM, omniscient and omnipotent. And thus we are also merely a part of that I AM, and not really a separate Cloud at all.