Dinner Table Devotions by Nancy Guthrie

Author:Nancy Guthrie [Guthrie, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: RELIGION / Christian Living / Devotional, RELIGION / Christian Living / Spiritual Growth
ISBN: 9781496450890
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Published: 2021-02-17T00:00:00+00:00

There are some ice cream parlors where you can make your own mix of flavors. You ask the person behind the counter to add a lot of fudge, a few nuts, perhaps a dash of cinnamon—and you have your own unique flavor of ice cream.

Some people think God’s character is like that ice cream—a mixture of various qualities in various amounts, with more of some ingredients than others. Some think of him as mostly love with a little justice thrown in. Others might think of him as mostly a giver who also makes a few demands. But God is not a bunch of traits mixed together in varying amounts. While it’s true that some actions of God show certain characteristics more obviously, God’s whole being includes every one of his attributes. He is love. He is mercy. He is justice. He is truth. He is beauty. He is completely all of those things, and much more. Every attribute of God that we can find in the Bible is true of all of God, all the time. No single attribute is more important or more influential than all the others. His love is not more important than his justice. His righteousness does not take precedence over his patience.

We have a hard time seeing God as he truly is in his completeness. Paul says, “All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely” (1 Corinthians 13:12). Someday we’ll see and know God in the fullness of all that he is. And we will not be able to keep from worshipping him with all that we are.

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