Continuing with part two of The God Show, and how he’s all over the place but easily missed. The whole thing is now together on it’s own site. You can read part one HERE and part two up to now HERE.
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One place you expect to see God is in the Bible. Another place is in Jesus, as you read the Bible and see Jesus’ personality, character, demeanor and how He thought and talked and what His priorities were.
And you expect to see God in church -- as you’re sensitized to Him in the music and preaching and in people who have come together to dwell on Him.
And maybe you expect to see Him when you look at creation and nature and you notice and are reminded -- wow, someone had to design and create all this.
But you can stop right there -- the Bible, Jesus, church, nature -- and if it’s not Sunday or you’re not reading the Bible and you’re not on vacation in the mountains or at the beach, then you may not really notice Him. And most of your life is probably not lived on Sunday or reading the Bible or in an attention-getting beautiful place.
But you read in the Bible:
The whole earth is filled with His glory -- Isaiah 6.3
And you do live all your life, every second, on that earth. The earth that’s filled with His glory.
And you read that the heavens declare the glory of God and that day and night they pour out speech and knowledge that’s heard all over, everywhere (Psalm 19.1-4).
And you read that what can be known about God -- His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature -- are clearly perceived in things that have been made, so everyone on earth has no excuse for not believing that God exists (Romans 1).
So you wonder -- what does that mean? That the whole earth is filled with His glory? That His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, are clearly perceived in things that have been made?
How and why does that matter to you and me? Is it theology for scholars and preachers and book writers? Is it for composers of worship songs and for us when we sing the songs in church? Anything else?
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