Sunday, May 21, 2017
God Is
Today I'm thinking about the concept of what God Is. my morning devotional took me to Numbers where we learn that God is forgiving while also not letting the guilty go unpunished.
The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished.
Numbers 14:18
It seems contradictory, but what do we really WANT God to be?
Think about it.
There are times you want a forgiving God. Times we want a loving God, times we want a God who makes sure that evil people get what they deserve, and times we want a merciful, healing God.
The truth is that we want God to be all things when we need him to be.
But when we only want our way we don't want to hear from him.
God truly IS all things. Every emotional state, every action state, every being of mankind exists within who God is. It gives him unending patience when we need to learn a lesson, and unfathomable grace when we keep failing. But he also has judgement when we need to see our wrongs, and truth to stand up for us when we are wronged.
The lesson for us to humbly learn is how to distinguish when we are facing his truth when we've wronged someone and being able to listen to God's voice we we may not want to hear it.
God is all things even when we just want him to be one.
