Blogotional: Who Is Jesus?

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Who Is Jesus?

Mark Daniels recently did a brief post on the character of God:Through Christ we know that

God understands our every weakness and is slow to anger and filled with tough, unending love for us.

God is also a consuming fire, which is why the fear of the Lord--awe, respect, the constant quaking realization that God is God and we aren't--is the starting point of wise living.

That's most of the post, minus the graphics so I apologize to Mark for this near thievery. But that said, this points out something so vitally important - God is so large and so complex and so beyond our understand that He may seem to us self-contradictory, certainly "bi-polar."

We are limited, He is unlimited. Our comprehension is restrained by language, He is unrestrained. We are creature, He is Creator.

In my now near 40 year walk with Christ the most important lesson I have learned is what I don't - NO, make that "can't" - know. Certainly the full nature of God would reside at the top of that list.

He is loving beyond description. He punishes evil. -- His grace is infinite. He is just. -- He forgives all sin. He condemns sinners.

Can you reconcile that into a cohesive and understandable picture? Not if you are honest with yourself.

So what is a Christian to do?