Thoughts on
God
~God
IS! I believe God exists. I have a mental image of God, but that is all
it is … my imaginative version of Him.
The scriptures remind us that ‘no person has seen God.” Moses was allowed to see the back side of
God, according to Exodus 33:18-34:9. Even
that must have been somewhat terrifying.
~I
approach God through faith, much as I approach all of life; faith that He
exists, faith that He is the supreme being that I worship, faith that He is
ever present, every moment.
~God
leads, even in the distasteful moments of life.
In my understanding of the scriptures, He never promises to keep
hardships from us. He just promises to
be with us in the middle of the hardships.
Joshua 1:9, God speaks to Joshua and says, “I’ll be with you wherever
you go.” All we have is the assurance of
His presence.
~When
we confess, He forgives, and remembers our sins against us no more. That is in 1 John 1:9; and, He removes our
sins from us as far as the East is from the West (Psalm 103:12). That is a long way. He forgets our sin and sends it a very long
way from us.
~God
is the embodiment of love. His love for
us, His creation, is beyond understanding.
As Brennen Manning writes – it is a furious love. A fire-storm of love reaching out to each of
us – EACH OF US! Regardless of our
color, our language, our education, our bank account, our physical description,
even whether we acknowledge Him, believe in Him, pray to Him, call on Him,
curse Him - His love remains constant.
We can’t earn this gracious outpouring of His love. We can’t read enough scriptures, pray enough
prayers, do enough good deeds to earn it.
He gives it freely. We either
accept it or not. I, for one, accept the
full grace of the love of God.
There
are other thoughts on God that I will save for another time, perhaps. The bottom line is this … we approach God
from a faith perspective.
We
want facts. He says faith.
We
want dogmatic proof – He says faith.
Hebrews
11:6 reminds us: “Without faith it is impossible to please God.”
For
me, God is not a myth. He is not a
legend. Not a super hero. Not an evil ogre just waiting for us to step
across some invisible line of disobedience so He can zap us. He is a real being.
These
are my thoughts on God.
P Michael Biggs
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