Not everybody’s going to get this… yet this is for somebody! God does as He pleases. While true to His Word, He does not avoid acting outside of our understanding of it. For example, He’s a loving God who hates Esau. He’s the One who has been respectfully called a gentleman, yet who knocked Saul off of his donkey and picked Ezekiel up off the ground by his hair. He’s the bright and morning star who veils Himself in darkness. He hates divorce, yet is Himself divorced. This list of seemingly conflicting ideas could go on for much longer than any of us could bear. Yet this uncomfortable tension is designed to keep us honest and truly dependent on the Holy Spirit for understanding who God is and what He is saying to us through His book. God is so foreign to our natural ways of thinking that we only truly see what He shows us—and we can only understand Him through relationship. The Bible is the absolute Word of God. It reveals God; the obvious, the unexplainable, the mysterious, and sometimes offensive. It all reveals the greatness of our God. Yet it does not contain Him. God is bigger than His book. Moves of God’s spirit is often mixed with many such dilemmas—God doing what we’ve never seen Him do before, all to confirm that He is whom He said in His Word. We have the inward conflict of following the One who changes not, yet promises to do a new thing in us. This becomes even more confusing when we try to fit that new thing into the mold made by our past successful experiences. Much love and blessings in Christ!
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:46:33 +0000
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