May 2, 2009
Re-Visioning
When I was younger I had an incorrect view of God. My view of God is now correct, but still incomplete.
- An incorrect view is to not see God as loving. An incomplete view is to not fully understand how loving he is.
- An incorrect view is to not see God as powerful. An incomplete view is to not fully comprehend his power.
- An incorrect view is to not see God as gracious. An incomplete view is to not fully fathom his amazing grace.
Incorrect & incomplete. There is a big difference.
Dallas Willard says this about one’s view of God in The Divine Conspiracy…..
Central to the understanding and proclamation of the Christian gospel today, as in Jesus’ day, is a re-visioning of what God’s own life is like and how the physical cosmos fits into it. It is a great and important task to come to terms with what we really think when we think of God.
Willard goes on to include this description of God by Adam Clarke…….
the eternal, independent, and self-existent Being; the Being whose purposes and actions spring from himself, without foreign motive or influence; he who is absolute in dominion; the most pure, the most simple, the most spiritual of all essences; infinitely perfect; and eternally self-sufficient, needing nothing that he has made; illimitable in his immensity, inconceivable in his mode of existence, and indescribable in his essence; known fully only by himself, because an infinite mind can only be fully comprehended by itself. In a word, a Being who, from his infinite wisdom, cannot err or be deceived, and from his infinite goodness, can do nothing but what is eternally just and right, and kind.
Love that description.
An accurate and correct description of God…yes.
A complete description of God….probably not.
How do you see Him?
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