Perfect, Blessed, and Beautiful
What a joy to set our minds on the highest and best of all subjects – God! What a joy to spend a few moments meditating upon Him as we continue today our series on the perfect, blessed, and beautiful God. What does it mean to be God? What must be true by necessity if one is to claim the throne of the universe, if one being alone is supreme, the God of gods and the Lord of lords?
Nothing is more important than knowing God. No knowledge we can acquire is higher or better than the knowledge of God. If we are to know any real person, and certainly God is a real Person, we must know what that person is like. We must learn about their character and discover something of their ways.
Have you noticed before how some Christians, pastors, and even entire churches or denominations will either emphasize God’s love or God’s holiness, often to the exclusion of the other?
We are created, God is eternal, having no beginning or end. We are needy and ever dependent, He is independent, needing nothing and no one. We change like the weather, He remains forever perfect in all His being and attributes, eternally the same.
It has been said that what we believe about God is the most important thing about us. That may seem like a strange statement, but give it some thought. What we believe about God, more than anything else, will set the trajectory of all other beliefs and behaviors, attitudes and responses to life.
Pastor Olaf Latzel is in Bremen, Germany, a city of over half a million people. He is rare among the state church there where a spirit of compromise has swallowed Germany. As a result, he has been attacked in the media, denounced by a group of 70 fellow pastors calling for diversity and even investigated by the local government for hate speech crimes and cleared. A parliament body did pass a resolution against him.
If you live in Kerrville over the month of September you probably saw promotional materials for The Gathering, an event October 3 at Tivy stadium hosted by the Kerr Ministerial Alliance, a diverse, ecumenical alliance of local ministry and church leaders.
I confess, I’m a sports junkie. It’s really my dad’s fault. I’m also good at blameshifting, but that’s for another blog. Growing up outside Nashville, TN, I became hooked on playing and watching some form of baseball, basketball and football year round. I loved them all. I lived for competition at every turn. As kids, we played something outside almost every day. We always kept score. I remember clearing the basketball court of snow in February and trying to play basketball with gloves on because we were tired of killing each other in football by that point. Other than when my cruel parents made me go to school, most of my growing up I was either playing or watching sports. At least we had sports at school!
In the last blog we considered just how transitory we are, how fleeting this vapor of a life really is. Like grass, green today, withered tomorrow.
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AuthorUnless otherwise noted, all posts are written by Pastor Chris McKnight Archives
March 2024
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