Friday, June 15, 2012

God as man

God as God is mysterious, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, fearsome, beyond awesome. God as man is more easily understood, someone you can have a conversation with,  fall in love with, sometimes yell at. God as Jesus was at once approachable, but still mysterious. People ate with him, and slept next to him, but still didn't really know him. After he went to heaven, he became all God again, back to beyond awesome. So what do we have now? We have the people of God, full of the Spirit of God. When we ask God for help, this mysterious omnipresent fearsome beyond awesome being, He answers us, most of the time, with people. They come in the guise of doctors and nurses, teachers, psychologists, singers, cooks, mothers, fathers, friends, neighbors, family.  They are old, young, natives of other lands, city dwellers, country dwellers. They come to us who cry for help with wisdom, compassion, medicine, information, hot food, laughter, love. We may not understand why God does it this way, we may prefer He just did something without using others so we would not get tangled up in relationships. But how else could we all get a chance to know Him better, if we didn't get to meet His family? I am grateful for all those He has sent to us, full of His love, potent, present, awesome and real.

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