Character: the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an
individual. Dare I venture into the realm where I talk about the very nature of
God. God is above and beyond anything we can ever fully understand but that
doesn’t mean that we can’t understand any
of God. In fact I believe it is important that we aim to understand more of God
every day.
The nature of God is
who He is and as we go further and deeper in our relationship with God we
understand more and more of Him and we learn more and more about ourselves. God
is intrinsically part of our life (whether we like it or not!) and
understanding more of God fills more of that God-Gap inside ourselves. There is
a great joy to living life and learning more of our Father, Creator, King, Lord
of Lords, Saviour.... and I suppose that is why I’m writing this Blog. I’m
writing this to share some of the nature of God that I have experienced, the
understanding of God that I have accumulated over my life.
I realised as I was
walking to work that I have had lots of different experiences of God that have
all been mentally separated but they are all different characteristics of the
One God so by doing this I aim to be able to bring them all together in my head
and heart to the God I know and love. I can’t do them all at once so I will be
posting all the different ones as often as I can. Some will be easily
recognised, some not so. Watch this space and I hope you enjoy.
God as Creator
Right down from the basic code of life that is DNA all the
way through to the order of the cosmos in the orbiting and pattern of the
planets and the solar systems I see evidence of God. There is an order and
structure that is just too perfect and too beautiful to be accidental (in my
opinion) and I believe that this is attributed to God. This part of Him, God as
creator, is very beautiful and exciting to me.
It is also deeply moving and personal. To know that God
created the EM spectrum, the milky way, the sun and the moon, the air, the
ozone layer. He made gravity, magnetism, fire, water earth. He created time, space.
He carved the earth, He moulded the planets, painted the skies. He formed the
flowers, invented the sea, and produced life. All of this He did and more; He
created my inmost being, He knew me before I was even knitted together in my
mother’s womb. He knows every hair on my head, because He put it there. How
amazing that He put the same amount of care into my little toe as He did in the
formation of the Sun. How mind-blowing that He spent as much time and care and
effort on my ear as He did on the planets foundations.
I can’t escape how
awesome and inspiring God as Creator is. All that power, that knowledge, that
time and strength is beyond comprehension. Then beyond that there is all that
love. No-one hates anything they create and nobody creates anything they hate.
When we Create things i.e. bring them into being, we are completely involved in
it. It is a part of us. Just in the same way that everything created by God is
of Him and part of Him. That for me epitomises God as Creator. He created me
and all this Creation that is gift for us to enjoy and He loves it. He loves us
and He loves us giving us the Creation to enjoy and He just loves to enjoy
Creation with us and I love to enjoy Creation with Him.
Coming soon..........
God as Father
God as Smith
Its hand made. Not like a factory, churning out people. God
puts effort and time into creating every part of who we are.
God as Gardener
God as King
God as Friend
Also if you have any that you think I should mention or feel
I have missed out or even think that I should explore please do drop us a
comment or an email and I will have a shot at it.
Many Blessings
Ed
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