Who is Your God?

I haven't posted any posts to this blog because I've been afraid that what I write may be Biblically unsound. What I have found though, is not that I am unsound Biblically, but that I am not in the word daily to trust the truths I know. I know many truths, but by how I live my life, it is clear that I do not trust them, and that is a big problem. That brought me to today's title.

Who is Your God?

Is your God good? Is your God loving? Does He really care for you? Why does He have so many rules? Why does He send us to hell if we don't do what He tells us to do? Why are His rules so hard to follow?

I don't know about you, but I've asked myself all these questions. I've looked at God as someone who didn't understand me and made it hard for me to be with Him. He didn't magically fix my problems when I called out in the middle of the night completely broken, and when things turned around for me, they turned right back to its original, wretched state.

Why is that?

Well, I will tell you, I have learned a lot about my part of the walk with Jesus, but the most important piece has only recently fallen into place. Let me answer my questions with a simple question. What is the easiest way to get along with someone? I mean, everyone has flaws right? How do you put up with those flaws? Is it a tolerance, or is it something more? I would say its something more. Now before I answer my new questions I've given I want you to ask yourself this: How do you get along with God? Is it tolerating his command, or trying to be good? Is it trying to read the bible or go to church even though you're simply doing it cause you "have to". What changes your perspective when you want to get along with someone? Love. You can look past faults in anyone when you love them, and that goes even more for God. He has NO flaws, none, but I'm sure you've had that person you thought was perfect. Did you tolerate them, or did you love them? Which is easier to get along with?

The Christian walk is not about going through the motions and following a bunch of rules, and its too easy to believe that it is. When you're doing the right things you're is not when you're in a good relationship, but when you love the Lord!

Now ask yourself, what wouldn't you do for the person you love the most? I don't know about you, but there isn't a thing I wouldn't do for the person I love the most. I would die for them and wouldn't hesitate to give anything I have to make their life better. Now what is better then when that person reciprocates? Nothing. God loved us before we were even able to love Him. He just asks us to reciprocate His love, and to love Him with all our hearts. Loving God is the most natural thing we can do, and God wants to help us through our life.

There are two easy mistakes we can make as Christians. God loves me when I obey him. God loves me too much to care if I do good or bad.

Both of these can be taken a lot of ways. God's love is unconditional, but these two questions have hidden lies in them. God doesn't love us BECAUSE we obey Him. He loves us, period... He loves it when we obey Him, but when we disobey doesn't hinder Him from loving us any more. God does love me too much, but that doesn't mean He doesn't care how we live our lives. He cares not because He wants to condemn us or control us. He cares because He wants what's best for us, and sin is never good in our lives. He gives us the grace, but the Bible says in Romans.

"What then? shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means?"
Romans 6:15

I don't know about you, but I've lived my life in both ways. I've let myself believe God's love was contingent on my obedience, and when that grew into a bitterness towards God I lived by grace, flaunting my life as if there was no consequence.

God's love is sufficient, our works are not, our sin is not. Nothing we do is. God loves us, we simply need to respond back in loving submission and repentance.

The last question I'll ask that I have asked in my years of struggling with the Lord is, "Okay, so He loves me. How do I even know He exists and He's not some fabrication of the imagination, of dudes who lived long, long ago?" I could go forever on this question, but I am going to give two cool verses I found while reading "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan. The bible says

"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world." Psalms 19:1-4a

"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities -His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse." Romans 1:20

If you aren't sure God is really there, go find Him, cause he has made himself known. If you "believe" in Him, but aren't in love with Him, do you REALLY know Him? What do you know about the Lord, because if you knew the Lord, you couldn't help but love Him, and your soul would be daily renewed for His working. Don't get me wrong, you can still struggle. People who think being a Christian means life will be easy are sadly mislead, but there is a peace that can be found when you daily walk to the throne of the Lord and lay yourself down before Him.

God,

Thank you for this opportunity to share my thoughts and convictions of you this morning. Thank you that you are a loving God, that you are a real God, and that you require nothing of me to love me. Lord, give me the strength to find you each morning, and to daily remind myself of your love for me so that I may love you. Thank you that you saved me from myself, and that you continue to do so. Thank you for finding me, thank you for guiding me. In Jesus Name,

Amen