- God is Who He is. We can’t make Him into a God we like or want so that we can excuse what we’re doing.
- The universe is not about me, and it’s not about you. It’s all about God.
- We live in God’s creation, and He’s not obligated to do things our way.
- “There is a god we want, and the God Who is – and they are not the same God. Real transformation begins when we stop seeking the god we want and begin seeking the God Who is.” Patrick Morley, Man in the Mirror
- Not everything makes sense to us – but it does to God.
- God loves us intensely.
- Nothing catches God off guard.
- God engineers our circumstances
- With the purpose of conforming us to the image of Christ (Romans 8:28-29)
- Using what He gets from us and those around us – sin and all
- God wants us to trust Him.
- In everything
- He is trustworthy
- We can thwart His plans for us – to our detriment.
- He will do what it takes to get our attention. But if we continually refuse Him, He may get quieter and quieter until we can no longer hear Him. We may reach a point where he stops and gives us over to our passions and their natural results. (Romans 1:24, 26, 28)
- God doesn’t come to our pity parties.
- We do not live in the world as God created it. Mankind has fallen, and things are no longer the way they were supposed to be.
What some have said about God
“If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.” Tim Keller
“As long as you do not begin with an imposed philosophical bias against the possibility of miracles, the Resurrection has as much attestation as any other ancient historical event.” Tim Keller
“I found out one day that God and I were incompatible and that one of us had to change.” Pete McKensie, Influencers West.
“… not what, in pride, we want to believe, but what, in humility, we must believe.” Randy Alcorn, about Erasing Hell, by Francis Chan and Preston Sprinkle, 2011.
“… not to apologize for God, but to apologize to God for presuming to be wiser and more loving than our Savior.” Ibid, Alcorn.
