How do you view God?

May 30, 2010

Our God is too small if He is too religious.

We make our God too small when we confine Him only to religion.

In fact, God is highly critical of religion. Jesus actually finds the pious acts of His time nauseating. The religious deeds of the Pharisees were repulsive to our Lord because they were hypocritical with no real life impact. The religiosity of the Jewish leaders had no effects on their everyday life and their hypocrisy was absolutely revolting to our Lord.

God is interested in all our ‘churchy’ stuff only if they lead to right living.

Anything short of the above, God is not interested.

James 1:27
27Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”

Our God is BIG – He is a God of the world. He is involved in the world events, the social, political and national spheres – in fact, all areas of life – not just the religious.

Our God is the God of the world and for the world He came.

John 3:16
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”