Sunday, September 9, 2012
Is God enough?
Is God good enough for us? Is God good enough for me? My mind wants to say yes, but my heart says no. So much of our faith is determined by having a set of standards met, does our church meet our checklist, are our needs being met? The reality is that it's not about us, God didn't make this all to benefit us, he made it all.... then made man. All that we see, all that we have, all that we are is put here to glorify him, to lift praise to how great he is as God, as the creator. All we should need is him, and his son, yet we ask for so much more, and when our world is “falling apart”, it's not because he's leaving... It's because we don't have what we want, because we're hungry, or broke, or losing the things we called ours, it's because people have failed, or we have failed. None of this should matter next to our relationship with him, easy to say, impossible for me to live out. I'm human as are all of you (I'd hope :), thus we sin and fall short, of what? The glory of God.... does this mean we are to aspire to achieve his level of awesomeness?.. I think not, rather perhaps what it is we are falling short of, is our potential to glorify him.... ? IF we we're to truly live as if God was all, as if we had no need of material things to survive..... what would that look like? Think of what we could do, of how joyfully we could live..... if our attitude wasn't affected by anyone other then the Lord..... Does this mean there is no room for sorrow, for anger... for emotions outside of happiness... certainly not. Rather what saddens him should sadden us, what angers him, should frustrate us, what brings him joy, should brings us joy. IF we truly lived as though he was God and our “everything, everyone” then we would live in such a way as to bring him joy, and that living would give us pleasure knowing such. Think of the happiness it brings you when you do what pleases your parents and it brings them great joy, or when you make a friend smile, or a sibling laugh..... think of this.. God is so much greater and thus his responses are far more extreme and radical. This should both terrify us and bring excitement knowing just how great his feelings can be, thus when we please him... it's beyond our comprehension.... and when we sin..... his sorrow and anger is also beyond our comprehension..... how thrilling, yet terrifying.
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