Knowledge of God in the Face of Jesus

My intent for the new few weeks is to share thoughts on particular aspects of God’s nature each week with the prayer that we grow together in discovering more and more about this unbelievable Person who, in A.W. Tozer's words, is “easy to live with”.

I’m finding in my own life journey with Him that the process of getting extricated from false religion is lifelong; one of the first and biggest hurdles to get over is to acknowledge how much religion there has been and is in me. As fallen humans we are strongly inclined towards this and severely deceived by it because its mask looks so much like the truth of Jesus.

Oswald Chambers says: “When we preach, we are not simply proclaiming how people can be saved from hell and be made moral and pure; we are conveying good news about God.”

The longer I live in God and discover the Person He is in truth, the more convinced I am that knowing and embracing the truth of the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus sets us free, particularly from religion. Religion is humanistic in that it focuses on the human effort required to "appease" God, whereas the Scriptures focus on God as the One who bears the weight of bringing me into the fullness of relationship with Him that delights and pleases Him. The Holy Spirit goes to great lengths in the Word to show us what God is like so that we will trust Him to bring us into all that He intends for us and so that we will have correct perspective on His role and our role.

So my prayer is that the Holy Spirit will breathe on these postings and magnify Jesus (His favorite assignment). I pray that His light and His truth will lead us into the presence of the holy God (Psalm 43:3) where we see more light (Psalm 36:9) and more truth and are saved from half truths about the splendor and beauty of this Person we worship and love. May His grace empower us to receive light and truth even when it’s at the expense of giving up half truths about Him that we hold dear.