God’s Role
As Christians, we always have some type of relationship with God. One of the biggest influences on this relationship is what we believe to be the role of God, or in some ways what we allow to be the role of God in our lives. As I was going through the first chapter of “God’s Eye View” by Robert Du Barry, I came across a rare, yet absolutely true and biblical fact about the role of God. Allow me to quote…
”Genesis starts off by revealing to us the fact that God must be undstood not as a vague force for good, but the absolute monarch of heaven and earth.”
How often do you think of God being absolute monarch over everything? Millions of people, even Christians live their life everyday without acknowledging that there is an absolute monarch over them, one who controls every aspect of the world.
When do people look to God? I even find myself looking to God when i I am in desperate need of something. It’s almost as if we think of God of more of a welfare other than the absolute monarch over our lives. How often do we take time out of our day to worship him for being the higher monarch, or to think him for every day he allows us to have by his mercy? Or even for stepping out of his comfort zone, taking on flesh, and suffering the death that we justly deserve so that we may one day be holy and righteous before him on the great day of judgement?
This view of God as a welfare figure is extremely dangerous, yet so common in even myself.
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