A Potato Head God?
In my Bible reading this week, I was struck anew by verses like Deuteronomy 6:4-5. "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might" (NASB).
The Lord, our God. This is the God who spoke to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon, Elijah, Jonah, John the Baptist, and Jesus Christ Himself.
He gave His name to Moses: "I AM." This is the name translated "LORD" in capital letters in English translation. "I AM." No matter when in time you are, He is there.
He is above all things. He is greater than all things. His is so much greater than us that we have no hope of fully understanding Him (Job 37:5; Isaiah 55:8-9).
This is the God we sometimes try to put in a box. "I like this part of who God is, but this part can't be right." "I like this part of the 'Christian God,' but I also like this part of the ______ belief system. They must go together."
Who are we to try to piece God together like a Mr. Potato Head?
When we take a good, hard look at how God describes Himself in His revealed Word (the Bible and the person of Jesus Christ), there can really only be one appropriate response.
“Woe is me, for I am ruined!
Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts” (Isaiah 6:5, NASB).
"1 Then Job answered the Lord and said,
2 'I know that You can do all things,
And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.
3 "Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?"
Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.'
4 "Hear, now, and I will speak;
I will ask You, and You instruct me."
5 'I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear;
But now my eye sees You;
6 Therefore I retract,
And I repent in dust and ashes'” (Job 42:1-6, NASB).
Amen our God is Truly Awesome in all he does and allows!! Who is like Him ? There is None !! 🙌🙌🙌
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8your hope is in the next verse - God's response to Isaiah's repentance, Isaiah 6:6-7 "The one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the alter. And he touched my mouth and said :"Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for"." That's a picture of what Jesus did on the cross, taking away our guilt and paying the penalty for our sin. Despite how messed up we are, He is generous to forgive.