In the last post I wrote about God, and how our perspective[s] and limited ability to fully understand Him often cause us major headaches. With understanding and communicating God sized concepts the best we can do is the best we can do. being clear about our limitations, and being clear about what is fact [as best we know them] and our opinion[s].
One of the fundamental hinges of the argument/debate of God's Exsistence is that: "it's all about perspective."
Who is ultimately (completely) Sovereign?
That is the underlying question all who'll ever exsist must answer for themselves.
The Answer seems obvious, from a certain perspective. That word's going to pop up a lot so get used to seeing it. Heres the problem: humanity does not want to acknowledge it's fallen state.
There is Mis-understanding and mis-communictation of God's character, and a mis-respresentation of humanity in light of the truth of the relationship between God and man. You can thank our inherent sin nature for that.
That brings us right back around to our statement of what the problem is.
Because Addmission of our fallen state makes us morally accountable to God's standards. Which we cannot meet on our own. We don't like the taste of that pill, So we try to find a way around it. It's not that we don't want God, We just want the "Nice, loving" part. we want all the blessings without the responsibility of ant difficult follow through, and without having to pay the price for failure.
It doesn't work that way. There is no grey with God, if you want to partake in the blessings, you must also be willing to partake of the curses of failure to follow through.
The important thing to Understand is God is "both." He's loving AND Just. Grace AND Wrath.
And he's both perfectly, unlike us. Anything less than both in perfection would be a denial of his nature. If God Cannot be both, then He's not God.
Our tendency is to want a "god" we feel we can "controll/manipulate." This is the Heart of Idolatry. A god we can "control" is not a big G God, it's a little g god, and not really a god at all.
A synonym for Sovereign is in control. Do we really want to give God ALL the controll? Sadly for many the answer is no. We want to retain some controll, If our relationship with God were to be equated with a car, it'd be like using the "manual over-ride." when we don't like the way something's going or turning out we just turn on the manual over-ride. If we want a true and growing relationship with God we must resist the urge to Manually over-ride and take over. It's fundamentally a trust issue, when life is chaos do we say "Jesus take the wheel" or do we grab the wheel?.
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