Knowing God means understanding His
nature, character, and attributes. The better we know and understand God, the
closer our relationship with Him can be.
August’s
Awakening, Day 22
Do
you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator
of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his
understanding no one can fathom. Isaiah 40:28 NIV
Over the next few days, we will look at the nature,
character, and attributes of God. There are many descriptors (we will discuss
about thirty-two attributes), some of them overlapping to some degree, but no
human words can adequately or completely describe God. The better we grasp the
character of God the deeper our spiritual relationship will be. It is important
to embrace all that God is, even if beyond our comprehension. Likewise, we must
look at these attributes from God’s perspective, as He is, not from our
imperfect and tainted human perspective by trying to impart our humanness upon
Him. Everything that God is must be perfect, complete, balanced, and
harmonious, for if God is not all these attributes that we will discuss, then
logic must say that God is not God, that there is no God, that there is no
heaven, that there is no life after death, that there is no such thing as a
spiritual world, the Bible is just words, and we are simply flesh and minds,
worms in shells that are destined to die and then no more. That is the true
significance in understanding God, His perfect nature, character, and
attributes. When we better understand God, we better understand His image
imparted onto ourselves, and we can, in reverence and awe, draw closer unto
Him. It’s time to know and embrace your God.
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