In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
Genesis 1:1-5
That must be the best way to start a book…ever. The best way to start anything, really. And it is the start of everything. Our everything. Except that our everything is practically nothing. Think about it.
God creates our light, our darkness, our day and night, with but a spoken word. He does this for six days straight, creating our galaxies and universes, our oceans and continents, our forests and atmosphere and animals and finally, us. He calls into existence a paradise for us to live in, and forever worship Him. How then, can we be so self-centered as to believe that the Great and Awesome God made it all for us?
God takes pleasure in our obedience. He rejoices in our joy. He is a God of Love, and therefore, Loves us with a fierce and jealous Love, more than a father for his child. We cannot box His Love into our pitiful words, because if we did, that Love would over-run, and ultimately destroy us. His Love, which is the only real Love, is something we will never fully understand, and should not enter in to our vocabulary as an everyday word, for it is a Holy and Righteous entity. But if this is all true, why would we even conceive the notion that God would abandon us, or forget us, or ignore us?
God, the Great I Am, who Himself created time, and therefore knows all things that for us have not happened yet, cannot be brought down to our level of being. We cannot place on Him the restraints of our understanding, which cannot even achieve a perfect second of sinless occupancy. His overwhelming understanding should knock us over and rip us apart, and His Perfection is so glorious that our frail bodies would die at the sight of His face. But if so, why do we make God stoop to our unimaginative means of communication, in order to just obey Him cheerfully?
Through my questions, I hope to make you see how a Great and Awesome God, the God who we should worship with every fiber of our beings, and every second of every day, still cares enough for you and I that He would come down among us and lead us onward towards Him every day. We are the ones who ignore Him, and disobey Him, and will not bend for Him. Yet, does He give up? Does He turn His Holy Face away and forget us? NO.
I’ve come back to basic Christianity, but through the poor descriptions of my God, I hope to help you see how basic we are anyway. We cannot attain a fraction of understanding about how Great He really is, and making our Christian walk more complicated with unnecessary rules and regulations, un-Biblical legalism and traditions, is only hindering us from seeing God as we need to see Him. Why would He call us on a journey meant for everyone, if He then hid Himself from all but the most studious? Why would He equip us for His duty with a Bible, and then add extra rules on?
Why would God, who is complicated enough, not make His Word simple enough for us?
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