"HOW WE THINK OF GOD IMPACTS OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM"

The following words were written by A. W. Tozer: "What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. The history of mankind will probably show that no people have ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God" (The Knowledge of the Holy).

The study of God and what He has revealed about Himself is the loftiest and most significant pursuit that you could ever undertake. God has taken it upon Himself to reveal great truths to us through nature, through His Word as well as in the person of Jesus Christ. I encourage you to go far beyond what we can discuss in this short devotional.

There is a tendency in man to elevate himself and to devalue whatever threatens to expose the truth.

The author of Psalm 50 wrote about how true worship and reliance on God had become faithless and even superficial.

God said that "These things you have done, and I kept silent; You thought that I was altogether like you" (Psalms 50:21).

There are two ways to worship God. Either we strive to be holy as God is holy, or we must attempt to bring Him down to our level and think that He is a lot like us.

David said in 2 Sam. 7:22, "Therefore You are great, O Lord God. For there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears."

This is one reason we need to understand and appreciate The True nature of God. There is none other like HIM!

Another problem we have when we fail to appreciate the true nature of God is that we tend to reduce God to, what I like to call, manageable terms.  

We notice in Romans 1:21-23 that Paul began with the universal acknowledgment of God's existence from which people deliberately turned away and were led to foolishness by exchanging the glory of the immortal God for images to look like mortal men, birds, animals and reptiles.

A good example of this was when Israel made and worshiped the Idol cast in the shape of a calf (Ex. 30:2-4), claiming that "This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!"

Today we make God out to be some kind of Genie who is always there to provide good things for us when we call on Him and the rest of the time we hope He stays out of our way. 

However, we live in a fallen world where bad things often happen to good people. God does not promise us a rose garden here on this earth, but He does give the grace to handle all our problems (2 Cor. 12:7-10).

People who believe that God is unknowable assume that God, for some reason, hides Himself from His creation.

Doesn't it make sense to think that if there is a Divine Being who has created all things and made man in His image (Gen. 1:26-27) that He would want mankind to have fellowship with Him?

This would require Him to reveal Himself to mankind. Well this is what God has done.
Paul said, "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse" (Rom. 1:20).

Paul explained to the Athenians God's purpose for us: "And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring'" (Acts 17:26-28).

In this devotional, I pray you, the reader, will search the Bible to see how God has revealed Himself to us and what it means.

This devotional blog-site is not the end to a means, but a help to those who may be searching for The One True God...
God bless, and Bless Our Great God!!!