Things I like about God

A few weeks ago, I did a short series on “irritating things about God”.  It is only fair that I should mention how far the other stuff outweighs the irritations.  I would like to get specific and let you know some things I like about God.  No guarantee that this will be a series, but this is what is on my mind today.

One of my favorite things about God is this.  He is constantly and consistently being and expressing Himself.  The Bible (Romans 1:20 to be exact) says that in the visible, natural creation, we see the invisible attributes of a supernatural God.  So the question issues from our lips…”why does God do it this way“, or “why doesn’t God just…”.  We make these observations of reality and life, and we figure we might know a smarter way to accomplish the same outcome.

So this whole “God expressing Himself” concept, trumps any brilliant idea we might have.

Today it is raining.  I began to think, “Why couldn’t God just make things self-sustaining?” I thought perhaps He could make things so that the water supply is built in, and all the nutrients are self contained, and self-generated.  I mean, He’s God, and it would have been easy to design things this way.  The beauty of my idea is that you don’t have the messy-ness of rain, and the whole ingestion, digestion, elimination cycle.  All these cycles, and the messy-ness of them, could be completely bypassed, if the supply of all these needs were just built into our being, right?

Then I got “the tap.”

You know, the sense you have when God begins to interrupt your smugness, and self-congratulations.

If I could put words to it, He seemed to be reminding me of the fact that all these cycles were expressing something about His nature.  The cycle of precipitation, weather patterns, etc.  All these things tell me stuff about the One who made them.

First, He is always changing even though He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.  Second, He loves making things new.  Generating again, that which has already been generated.  Re-creating.  Then, I noticed He seemed less concerend about the messiness than I was.  Almost like my sense that this rain is inconvenient was about me and my ways of thinking and not about the actual circumstance.  Also, like these cycles, He is always passing on more of Himself.  Things age, but are renewed. Things are used up but never useless.  There is an organic nature to these cycles and processes, in which God is passing life from one system to another.

Wow, God was in a talkative mood.

And all because I started thinking I knew a less messy way to run the universe.

I really like that about Him.

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