Alphabet of Love – G is for God

Have you ever felt misunderstood? Well, you are in good company, for I don’t think there is a more misunderstood person in the universe than God.

Think of it - how in the world does the Invisible, Infinite, Eternal, Holy, Omnipotent, Uncreated One convey Himself to the visible, finite, temporal, sinful, weak, fickle, Made-in-Dirt dust mite like you and me, so the dust-mite can understand Him… even relate to Him?!!  And why would He even care to ‘communicate’ anything about Him, or of Him to us?

I see a problem here, and I am certainly glad that it’s not up to me to solve it. God’s problem solving-strategies, unorthodox as they may be, are much more effective than mine. God’s big secret is that He is … crazy about us. And this, to use Francis Chan’s phrase, crazy love makes Him passionate about communicating with us, hopeless as sometimes it may appear.

He is like an artist, revealing Himself through what He creates.  Through this symbolic yet powerful language of natural revelation, we get the glimpses of His beauty, majesty, wild sense of humor and creative joy.

His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made Romans 1:20

The crown of His creative revelation is us! Men and women of all colors, shapes and sizes, created to be God’s image-bearers, reflections, mirrors of His person in this world. 

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27

Of course, much of this image is distorted, the reflection marred since the mirror was shattered through sin.  Yet, there is still a unique representation of something of the nature of God in each human being that we can't explain any other way. 

He reveals more of Himself through His Word – what He loves and what He hates, His holiness, His passionate love for His people, His deep concern for their well-being, and uncompromising dedication to justice and righteousness.  Reading through the Law of Moses and the Prophets is a heart-wrenching journey of God calling people back to Himself and living that relationship out in loving and caring families and communities.  But outside of few rare examples, people en masse seem to consistently chose to go their own way!  One can’t help but wonder, What’s wrong with these people?!! Are they brain-damaged or what?, until one recognizes his or her own image in this mirror. As wonderful as the Law is, on its own it is powerless to impart life into dead people, nor was it ever intended to do so. It only points out how far we all fall short.

God’s by far the best and clearest act of self-disclosure was made when He became human in the person of Jesus Christ. All we need to know about God we find in this one package - ‘squeezed’ into a human life – without leaving behind any divine (except for omnipresence) and without crowding out any human attributes (except for sin). Jesus not only reveals God to us perfectly, but, by His perfect sacrifice, solves our unsolvable problem, paying the full price of our sin.

God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power; When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.  Hebrews 1:1-3

You really want to know what God is like? Look at Jesus.

He who has seen Me has seen the Father. John 14:9