Yesterday, a friend of mine posted the following as his facebook status:
God is....
He got some of the answers he was expecting, the "standard ones", if you will.
God is GREAT. Sure.
God is love. Of course.
But that got me thinking. Not that the standard answers are wrong, because it's very true that God is great and He is love, but are they good enough?
You know the answer. Of course not.
If we don't dig deep to discover who God is to us, what's the point of relationship with Him?
He wants us to be in relationship with Him, but not the "Hey, how ya doin'?" "I'm good" and keep going kind of relationship. Rather, the "really listening, trusting, leaning on Him" kind.
Not that all of us are good at that all the time.
Things get going well and we tend to lose sight of what God means to us. Thinking that we can do things on our own. Forgetting that all we are and all we have comes from Him.
Then a crisis strikes, be it a serious health type crisis or just a run-of-the-mill "too many bills and not enough money" kind.
And we wonder where He went. All this time, it's true that we may need an adjustment in how close we are to God, but it's not because He moved.
He's there, we just have to pay attention. Get our eyes off our own issues and focus on the fact that He loves, He knows, He's in control.
We can't see, but He can. And that should be comforting, if we're in relationship with Him.
Who is He to you?
2 comments:
Great post!
God is all of the above and so much more. He is the reason for our being. He is who we should wake up to every morning thanking because He gave us one more day to be with the ones we love. He cares for us more than anyone and we will forever be in debt to him. God takes care of us even when we think he isn't.
God is my Father, my Savior, my Creator, my Rock, my Haven, my Safe place, my friend, my ALL.
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