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Why My God is Amazing

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Why My God is Amazing
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God is amazing. He is AMAZING. This week in chapel, we had a mini-lectureship about the presence of God. He is here. He is where you are. He is everywhere. He is here with me as I type this, thinking of Him. Tonight, we had a Clayton Chapel singing that ended the lectureship. God was there. The voices of all of those christians coming together to praise God was absolutely breathtaking. We sang the song Holy Lord. God is holy. We sang the song The Greatest Command. Not only does God love us with all of his love, but He IS love. We sang the song Where No One Stands Alone. He is here. He will never let us be alone, because He is always there. There is a reason that He is so hard to understand. We don’t understand God because He is everywhere all at once. He loves us, even when we pain Him, because He is the undefinable, indescribable, ever-living love. He IS love (1 John 4:8). He gives us the opportunity to go to Heaven and live with Him, even though we deserve to eternally live in the lake that burns with fire. Why does he do that? Because not only is He graceful and merciful, but He IS grace and He IS mercy. However, if we do not take His opportunity to go to Heaven, if we do not accept the gift, and the sacrifice He has given us, He will send us to Hell, because He is fair. He is fairness. He is all of the things that we can never be, and although we try every day to get there, we can never be as loving, because we are not love itself. We can never be as kind, because we are not kindness itself. We will never be as graceful, or as merciful, because we can not be grace and mercy. He is the definition of righteousness and holiness because He is without sin, and because He IS holiness. We can not be God. We can not be God because God is God, and we can not be these things I have listed because God is those things, and we can not be God, therefore we can never be completely loving, completely kind, completely holy, completely graceful, completely merciful. We have all sinned. We all fall short of the glory of God. He Himself tells us that through Paul in Romans 3:23. I am not anywhere near as holy as I long to be, and I’m even farther from where God is. I am not anywhere near as kind, as loving, as merciful, as graceful, as fair. I am not God. Sometimes, we feel like we control things, and we get to “play God” with our lives, and that is simply not true. Yes, we get to make choices, but no, we do not get to “play God.” We are nothing like Him. We are created in His image (Genesis 1:26), yes, but while we are on earth, and while we have these bodies, we are nothing like him. Jesus can still feel those nails being pounded into his radial nerves, and he can feel that crown of thorns being pushed into his scalp because I choose to keep sinning. Why would a God let His son, HIMSELF, go through that for me? Because He is love. He is grace. He is mercy. He is kindness. He is fairness. He is holiness. He is all of these things in their purest forms, and He can not be anything other than these things because He is God. If you’re looking for the definition of these words, it’s God. If you want to define these words, it’s God. If you want to better understand God, look into and research these words. God is all of these things, without exception. In order to be more like Him, I will strive every day to be kind without exception, to be loving, without exception, to be holy without exception, to be graceful and merciful and fair without exception, but because I am not God, and because I will never be, and will never come close to being like Him, I know I will mess up. I know I will struggle with these things because I can never understand these things the way that God does. He is amazing. He fills me with awe, and I am overwhelmed by the knowledge of His presence. I don’t know of anything else that fills me like my God does. I don’t know of anything else that completes me like my God does. I don’t know of anything else that I love and want to be with more than my God. My God is amazing.

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