Sometimes I think we trivialize God. Actually, I think most of the time we do. We make God something we can fully comprehend. We talk about Him as if we could possibly know everything about Him. We talk about Him like we're right.
But God is good.
In bible study we've been talking about the beatitudes. This evening we went over Matthew 5:8:
"God blesses those whose hearts are pure,for they will see God."
We talked about how our hearts are not pure of our own accord.
Chris brought up "The Great Exchange". God took away our awful disgusting sin, and replaced it with his goodness, his perfection. It's amazing, and it's free.
It's really quite wonderful, and terribly unfair.
I've been struggling recently in understanding God. Though I want my life to be a reflection of Christ, and I am drawn to that lifestyle. I feel God becoming this cynical being in my eyes. I cannot stand it. I don't want to study God like some subject in school. I want to truly know him and being growing in him spiritually.
I think so often we seperate ourselves from Him. We allow him and his work to become a task, another part of our life. But he is our life now. Our life is to be completely different. So then, why do we keep holding on so tightly to our things? Why do we try to combine what's "normal" and God? Why are we claiming to be set apart, but blending into the crowds every day?
I want to be set apart. I'm trying to hard to figure out how to do that, but it's so hard. Because my head trips my heart and I get messed up and stumble from the path.
But God is good.
He picks us up and sets us back on the path. I only wish I could love him better.
Because God is good.
And I cannot repay what he's done for me.
But I can at least try to live a life like Him.
But God is good.
In bible study we've been talking about the beatitudes. This evening we went over Matthew 5:8:
"God blesses those whose hearts are pure,
We talked about how our hearts are not pure of our own accord.
Chris brought up "The Great Exchange". God took away our awful disgusting sin, and replaced it with his goodness, his perfection. It's amazing, and it's free.
It's really quite wonderful, and terribly unfair.
I've been struggling recently in understanding God. Though I want my life to be a reflection of Christ, and I am drawn to that lifestyle. I feel God becoming this cynical being in my eyes. I cannot stand it. I don't want to study God like some subject in school. I want to truly know him and being growing in him spiritually.
I think so often we seperate ourselves from Him. We allow him and his work to become a task, another part of our life. But he is our life now. Our life is to be completely different. So then, why do we keep holding on so tightly to our things? Why do we try to combine what's "normal" and God? Why are we claiming to be set apart, but blending into the crowds every day?
I want to be set apart. I'm trying to hard to figure out how to do that, but it's so hard. Because my head trips my heart and I get messed up and stumble from the path.
But God is good.
He picks us up and sets us back on the path. I only wish I could love him better.
Because God is good.
And I cannot repay what he's done for me.
But I can at least try to live a life like Him.
The picture might seem random, but God is so much more vast that we can explain. His creation speaks so much of who He is. In the beauty, in the complexity, in the strength: God is.
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