Years ago I had a poster I really liked. The scene on it was pretty but the words caught me and have stayed with me:
There are two foundation facts of human enlightenment:
1.There is a God
2.None of us is He!
God is. He always was and still is, always will be. He makes the rules, we don't. He makes them because He is omniscient. He makes them because He loves us. He loved us when He had the idea of making human beings in His image even though He knew we'd sin and Jesus would come to pay our debt. The rules are for our good and because He can see things we can't. He sees the end from the beginning.
An encouraging fact about God is He knows who He is. He is not in the least confused about it. He has told us Who He is but we humans seem to become terribly confused about it. Partly, it seems to me, because we seem to think that since He made us in His image we ought to return the compliment. We seem to look at the things about humans that we like and think God should be just like that. We love warm fuzzies and in order to get them we go to crazy lengths and by doing those crazy things we feel we assure others and ourselves about who we are and that it is good. He knows who we are too. He knows who He means us to be. He tells us how to be who we are to be since sin has kept us from it. We just want to do it our way and prove how great we are. It proves we are foolish. We are like a child who is told to clean his room and instead uses water paints on everything and then thinks his parents should be excited about how pretty the room looks.
God is God. His ways are perfect, His Word is perfect, His Will is perfect. His LOVE is perfect.
There are two foundation facts of human enlightenment:
1.There is a God
2.None of us is He!
God is. He always was and still is, always will be. He makes the rules, we don't. He makes them because He is omniscient. He makes them because He loves us. He loved us when He had the idea of making human beings in His image even though He knew we'd sin and Jesus would come to pay our debt. The rules are for our good and because He can see things we can't. He sees the end from the beginning.
An encouraging fact about God is He knows who He is. He is not in the least confused about it. He has told us Who He is but we humans seem to become terribly confused about it. Partly, it seems to me, because we seem to think that since He made us in His image we ought to return the compliment. We seem to look at the things about humans that we like and think God should be just like that. We love warm fuzzies and in order to get them we go to crazy lengths and by doing those crazy things we feel we assure others and ourselves about who we are and that it is good. He knows who we are too. He knows who He means us to be. He tells us how to be who we are to be since sin has kept us from it. We just want to do it our way and prove how great we are. It proves we are foolish. We are like a child who is told to clean his room and instead uses water paints on everything and then thinks his parents should be excited about how pretty the room looks.
God is God. His ways are perfect, His Word is perfect, His Will is perfect. His LOVE is perfect.
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