Tuesday, December 11, 2012

God Thinking IX - Drawing Closer To God 7

"Why is it so important for us to have a proper image of God?
 
God says so.  God decided that you should know Him.  God decided how you should get to know Him.  God decided, that only through the Son, by faith, shall He be revealed.  This world’s religions want God without Christ.  There is no God without Christ.
 
Yet even when Jesus walked the earth, there were many that brushed against Him and sat with Him, and yet did not recognize the creator.  It takes faith to see God.  And God decided that Jesus would provide for us the image of God.  The true image of God is best revealed through Christ.
Colossians 1:15 & 2:9
“Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

Colossians 2:9
“For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.”

Christ made Himself familiar to us, not that through knowing Him we would continue on the path of waywardness, but that through knowing Him we would choose to follow Him.

God allowed Himself to become familiar to us through Christ, knowing that we could not understand the infinite.  But God reveals Himself to us in Christ so that we could know Him."

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

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