The first command of the ten commandments is "Love the Lord your God."
This begs to ask.
What is your view of God?
No one can understand God fully, yet He has revealed Himself to us.
Creating God in your own image is idolatry, but we are all guilty of it at times.
I had two friends in college who refused to see God as just. Some theologies ignore God's mercy. The balance gets off. Name your emphasis----it's not the whole picture!
What I see is this push to see God as I want Him to be: loving, forgiving, providing.
He IS that.
But my God is the God of the Bible. He is so much more than that. When you base your picture of God on only part of Scripture, or on anything other than Scripture you err.
You are breaking the first commandment.
We are afraid of Him and His infinite power, His justice, His righteousness.
And that's okay. It helps us to refocus our lives, to tune them to His standards, His teachings.
God is good.
Patience with each other as we all learn of Him is one virtue, but don't get off track from learning all you can of Him. Don't limit your view of God, thereby creating a new god.
Learn of Him. He will satisfy.
This begs to ask.
What is your view of God?
No one can understand God fully, yet He has revealed Himself to us.
Creating God in your own image is idolatry, but we are all guilty of it at times.
I had two friends in college who refused to see God as just. Some theologies ignore God's mercy. The balance gets off. Name your emphasis----it's not the whole picture!
What I see is this push to see God as I want Him to be: loving, forgiving, providing.
He IS that.
But my God is the God of the Bible. He is so much more than that. When you base your picture of God on only part of Scripture, or on anything other than Scripture you err.
You are breaking the first commandment.
We are afraid of Him and His infinite power, His justice, His righteousness.
And that's okay. It helps us to refocus our lives, to tune them to His standards, His teachings.
God is good.
Patience with each other as we all learn of Him is one virtue, but don't get off track from learning all you can of Him. Don't limit your view of God, thereby creating a new god.
Learn of Him. He will satisfy.
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