Who is God? Believing that there is a God and knowing who he is are two different things. If you think God is mean, that he is too busy to hear your prayers let alone care for and help you, then there isn’t a whole lot of room for the two of you to be in relationship. In fact, there is really no point at all…how could you possibly depend, let alone call upon God, when he is absentee and too busy for you? When this is how we see God, it is because our earthly examples of him have not been stellar. Our fathers may have been absentee emotionally and our idea of relationship may very well be cracked and broken. Recently I heard Charles Stanley say something along the lines of “if you have twenty-five reasons to be upset, angry, resentful, hurt, then thats twenty-five reasons to find solutions” (this is NOT a verbatim quote!) but the message is, that whatever we have experienced in life via relationship with one another is not a reflection of who God actually is. We are to look for godly answers to human quandaries and Jesus came so that we can actually know who god the father is and what we are to know and experience with him as our heavenly Father. God is not a character, he has character and wants us to model ourselves after his perfect son. You and I can do no wrong if we conform to the image of Christ, calibrate to who he is and who God the Father wants us to be. We are designed for relationship firstly with him and secondly, with one another…Jesus shows us the how to parts.
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified” (Romans 8:28-30).
Can you imagine dear reader, that God loves you so much that he works for your good and that he calls you according to his purpose? You are considered one of his children and I don’t know about you but I am marvelling at the gifts wrapped up in more gifts in the verses above, from above! To be like Jesus means we are treated like him, by GOD, justified and glorified! I am learning everyday what this means, to be so loved by him. I hope you are too? I hope you are taking the time to know who he really is? There is freedom in calibrating to Christ, conforming to his image. It is indescribable and yet, when you have touched, tasted and experienced relationship with God, there is no turning back “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery”.
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified” (Romans 8:28-30).
Can you imagine dear reader, that God loves you so much that he works for your good and that he calls you according to his purpose? You are considered one of his children and I don’t know about you but I am marvelling at the gifts wrapped up in more gifts in the verses above, from above! To be like Jesus means we are treated like him, by GOD, justified and glorified! I am learning everyday what this means, to be so loved by him. I hope you are too? I hope you are taking the time to know who he really is? There is freedom in calibrating to Christ, conforming to his image. It is indescribable and yet, when you have touched, tasted and experienced relationship with God, there is no turning back “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery”.
