Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Knowing God


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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