While scanning articles on CNN this morning I came across an article entitled, "Only 52% Approve of God's Job Performance." After reading the short article I was saddened as I think about how flippant, and I would argue defiant, our culture has become towards the God of the universe. How has the view of God, even among professing believers, become so small that we would tolerate the idea that we have the right and ability to judge God's performance. Just like most things in American culture God has been set-up in such a way that it is expected that His sole purpose is to meet our every desire. When something happens in our life that we don't like, we are quick to blame God and complain about it, we question his love and his goodness, and many people some day expect to stand before God and bring up their laundry list of all the "injustices" that have happened to them.
We have lost sight of the magnitude of God. We have done so many things to place God on our level that we no longer understand the transcendence of God. We have come to the place where the creation feels comfortable to say to the creator, who do you think you are? You can't do that? I don't like that? That was not my plan? I want it this way? We have the audacity to say to the one who created us, "YOU CAN'T DO THAT." We need to get back to a place where we realize that God is God. Let me remind all of us that some day when this life is over and we stand before God, no one will have the audacity to say, "You didn't do your job very well God. I disapprove of you." Instead our response will fall in line with what is revealed in Scripture.
In Isaiah's vision of God here was His response...
"Woe to me! I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty." Isaiah 6:4
Peter, after being commanded by Jesus to put their nets down on the other side of the boat, and realizing who Jesus was responded by saying,
"Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man." Luke 5:8
One day when we stand before God we will respond with absolute awe, reverence, and amazement and fear. We will never, ever, ever stand before God and tell him if we approved us His job. As we stand before God His in all His magnitude, and awesomeness, and Holiness, and Greatness, we will see God for who He truly is! That day will either be most terrifying day a person will experience as their sins are laid bare before the God of the universe and eternal separation from God is pronounced, or it will be the most amazing, exhilarating moment a person will ever experience as the perfect righteousness of Jesus covers us, as sinners, and we will spend eternity in the presence of God who is so magnificent that we can't even begin to comprehend.
Praying for you and for me to gain a better perspective on who God is. May we not find ourselves amongst those who believe that we have any right, and any basis, on which to disapprove of God's performance. Instead may we daily strive to understand the greatness of God in all of life, and as a result live a life that reflects and demonstrates God's greatness to a watching world! I recommend reading Job 38-41 today to remind us of the magnitude of who God is!!!
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