God who is Free

Our society today likes to place God in a box. God can't do this or that or else he is evil.

We like to tell God how it is acceptable for him to be. God must decide to fit into our mold of behavior or we will not accept him.

It is humanities great pride to wish that God must fit into our mold or morality. He is the one who established morality not us.

The reality of things is that God as creator is absolutely free. One of his revealed names means "I am" or "I will be who I will be."

Absolute freedom is the nature of God. We often wish to tell God how he can or cannot run the world.

What is needed is for us to sit under God's feet and learn why he governs the world as he does. When we disagree it is us who is at fault.

Maybe we feel we are in the right, but the reality is the error is in our thinking. Our deceitful hearts and limited minds cannot comprehend the purposes of God.

For a post about the personhood of God see: Personhood of God

We Will Be Most Satisfied When We See, Savor, and Make Much of God

A bit from Piper:

“If the purpose of God – flowing from the very essence of what it means to be God – is that he be known and enjoyed and praised as infinitely glorious in his free and sovereign grace, then the meaning of our existence is clear. We exist to know and enjoy and praise and display the glory of God’s free and sovereign grace. We exist to see and savor and sing – and spread a passion for – the glory of God’s grace.”

A bit from me:

And I would like to add if we exist for the purpose of seeing and savoring and making much of God then it should well be easily be inferred that we will be most satisfied when we see, savor, and make much of God.  For, God as an infinitely wise creator did not create us in a way so that we would find anything other than our most ultimate joy in him.  In fact it is hard to imagine us finding anything other than our ultimate joy in the infinite beauty and brilliance of God.