Yesterday on Facebook...

Well really this story begins last Sunday. As part of our worship our Children’s Director (Dara Cox) asks all of us “what has God done in your life this week” or something to that affect. People share their ups and downs and amazingly so God’s grace acting in their lives. Every time we tell THOSE stories we PROVE the Gospel is real and alive. Following this moment of Heaven, Dara shares from her life and thoughts. This past week she spoke of how good seems so inadequate to describe God as in “God is so good.” Now those are Bible words but even to me good seems a little plain for God. Your know, how was your day “good” is not the same as God is Good. God and my day do not compare and my day was only good and God is…so beyond that. So……..

I put on my facebook page a note asking for people to fill in the blank God is __________ and leave their word in the comment section. I have 15 comments.

God is: merciful, forgiving, the great I AM (I guess one word went out the window), all, fantabulous (from a teacher type, is that a word?), outrageous (mine), it, here, patient, indescribable, wild, awesome, never ending, everything, and everlasting.

Later in the day I thought how dumb that exercise was to try to describe the CREATOR in one word. Why had I even done that? That is impossible. How do you describe the indescribable much less in one word? You can’t or at least I cannot. It is an IMPOSSIBLE task. So why do it?

Why? As I thought about it, it is good for me to make a list to describe God in a word or simple phrase. The Old Testament is filled with words that describe God as peace, sustainer, provider, deliverer, age to age, strong refuge etc as men experienced God and named him as their experience. It’s good for me because the list will grow long, never ending. It will keep me always looking, expecting, experiencing and focusing on God and his identity in my life at each and every moment. I will come to see more how infinite and omnipotent God is and how much more there is to know Him through His Son.

To know Him through his Son, that’s why he came. Pursuing us from heaven down the mountain we tried to climb so that we might know Him through His Son. Sounds like the Gospel to me. So…

God is ______________! (Start that list today)