God Thinking IX - Drawing Closer To God 6

"God was not made in your image and likeness, you were made in His image and likeness.  If you are going to have a right view of God, it will have to be a faith view. 

 

Hebrews 11:1 tells us about this view.

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

 

If faith is the evidence, then faith alone can provide a right view of God.  Every religion in the world has tried to explain God and bring God into subjection to their thinking.  It cannot be done.  The true test of faith, is your view of God based on God having revealed Himself to you, not once, but often.  You need more revelation of God, from God.

When you try to imagine what God is like, you must of necessity rely on that which is not God to do so, therefore whatever you visualize God to be, He is not.  You have constructed out of creation that which made creation. 

It’s like this: If you drew a picture of yourself and then looked at it, would that picture look like you?  If you were a good artist it would.  Now let’s let the picture have a crack at it, (the picture drawing you) what would it look like?

Our intellect falls short of being able to create a true and proper image of God.  But by faith, we can receive from God a true and proper image of God. 

It is not unusual for man to have an image of God.  But the image of God that man makes can be quite unusual."

 

Excerpt from God Thinking IX - Drawing Closer To God by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012