Sunday, December 9, 2012

God Thinking IX - Drawing Closer To God 5

"In worship and praise, through prayer and supplication, the question of “whom are we worshiping?”, must arise.  Questions like “who is this God?” and “What does God look like?” must arise out of the desire to know our creator.
Our intellect has created an image of God in our mind and it is this image that reigns over all else.  A poor image of God, a false image of God, an undesirable image of God, any image made by mankind apart from the revelation of God Himself, by faith, by the indwelling Spirit - is untrue of God. 
None of us can accurately described Holy God, only God Himself, and we receive understanding by faith.  And when God reveals Himself to us by faith, we, like the prophets, fall to our knees is reverence of His unicity. 
Nothing is like our God and nothing to be compared.  That is why the scriptures say to us in 1 Corinthians 2:9-13
 9But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual."
 
Excerpt from God Thinking IX - Drawing Closer To God by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012

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