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What comes to your mind when you think of God?

What you think about God will change the way you think, the way you act, the way you experience life, and the way you experience eternity. Really, what you think about God is that important.

So, what should we think of when we think about God?

Well, good thing He told us! God tells us about Himself in words that He breathed to faithful, godly men. Those men wrote down each word very carefully. These words from God to people were collected and put in one book, the Bible.

One way God tells us what He is like in the Bible is through giving Himself all sorts of different names, like nicknames. God calls Himself Creator because He wants us to know and think of Him as the One who created everything.

Another way God tells us what He is like in the Bible is by stating it directly, like when He said in Deuteronomy, chapter six, “The LORD our God, the LORD is one.” From that verse, we understand that there is only one God. He is unique and the only God anywhere.

God is sometimes more indirect and uses stories. These require more careful reading to understand correctly. When God’s Son, Jesus, was baptised, God showed that even though there is one God. He is in three persons (God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit). For humans, being one and three at the same time is impossible. But, God is God and things are possible for Him that are beyond our understanding.

When things are beyond our understanding no matter how hard we try to understand them, we have two choices. Our first choice is to stop believing God because we cannot squeeze a God bigger than the universe into the way our brain thinks. Our second choice is to believe God in a special way, through faith and with awe.

Awe is respect stirred together with wonder that bubbles up into our hearts as faith. What is the most beautiful thing you have seen in nature? Awe is the feeling you might get looking at nature and feeling just happy to stand there and marvel at it. Faith is being sure of God, trusting Him, even if you cannot see and understand every detail of Him and His plan, yet.

WHAT we think of God is wrapped up in HOW we think of God. This blog will tell a lot of ‘whats' about God through stories and names and verses. This blog has the potential to change ‘how’ you think about God, too. This is not because this blog is amazing, but because it is pointing to the One who is the most amazing.

God is the One who can change what and how you think. If you do think of God with faith and awe, your life will exalt (lift up high) His name and that will change the way you think, the way you act, the way you experience life, and the way you experience eternity. Yes, it is that important.

 

 

If you would like to, see if you can find the three persons of God (God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit) in the story of Jesus’ baptism in Matthew 33.16-17.