My View Of God Essay

My view of God is one that must hold to what Scripture states. My view must be a high view, a glorious view, a view filled with awe and reverence and fear. As Isaiah 55:8-9 states, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Since He is such a glorious, great and holy God and He has chosen to place His love and grace on me, I long to serve Him wholeheartedly, knowing that I fall short every hour of every day. I am His child, but I am still a sinner in need of His daily sanctifying grace. If I have a low view of God and look at Him horizontally instead of vertically, then it

He did not create me to be an equal. He created me to be an image bearer to reflect His glory. I exist for God, not He for me. “It is in glorifying the Lord that we fulfill the purpose for which we have been made and designed.” ¹ I am to “glorify God and enjoy Him forever.” ² God is a perfect Trinity - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. All equal. Three in One. All performing their perfect and complete roles. If God, in the persons of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are carrying out their perfect roles, then my salvation and sanctification are securely in their “hands.” And in their choosing and atoning and completing me, they have shown unmeasurable love and undeserving grace to me. It’s unfathomable. God chose me. I am a vessel that was made to be used for His great purposes. He is concerned for me and in His sovereignty He has purposed and predestined who and what I am to be because of His good providence. Because of this, I want to live my life for His glory, for His perfect Will. I want the way I live and the words I speak be that which is glorifying to God – that it can be used to further His Kingdom and to plant the seeds that bring forth salvation and growth in those

My heart yearns for deep relationships with His people so that we can care for one another, reflect His image better if we are doing it together, be in unity as Christ prayed for us in John 17:21 and what Peter calls us to in 1 Peter 3:8. Because when we show Christ’s love to one another, His love is seen. Christ stated in John 13:34-35, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” Although I never love the way He asks and requires me to, and I never will on this side of heaven due to my flesh, I long to please my King. In David Powlison’s article, Who is God? he states, “Never forget that you have someone to bring to the people you counsel.” He also stated, “The motive is not personal convenience, or success in interpersonal relations, or self-reformation. The motive is to know the Lord. Good principles gutted of the Lord -deChristified, to put it clumsily but precisely – can only function as some form of self-serving.” Another way of stating this is not to strip the indicative away from the imperative. That is how I long to take my view of God and live it out in