Last week I noticed a conversation going on in the Twittersphere called Godin10. Basically, thousands of people were trying their best to creatively define God in 10 words or less. I read probably one hundred “tweets” until I couldn’t read anymore. It was actually pretty depressing to read how many people choose to believe that God doesn’t exist or believe that he created us and now gets some sort of twisted pleasure out of watching us suffer.
Ironically, last week was also the first week The Pursuit started its study of the book of Genesis. And I was confronted with this truth from Genesis 1. God is God, and we are not. We don’t get the right to define God. That’s hard for many of us in the western world to swallow because we have grown up thinking that we have the right (inalienable rights) to do whatever we want. But if you stop to think about it, if there is a God who designed us, it is pretty laughable to think that we could figure him out. That is unless he chose to allow us to get a glimpse of him.
That is exactly what he has done through the Bible and also through Jesus. Both show us what God is like. Love. Just. Merciful. Eternal. All-Powerful. Forgiving. All-Knowing. One. Generous. Compassionate. Holy.
A man named Job once tried desperately to figure out God on his own and God asked him this question, “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?” In other words, “I am God, and you are not.”
We could use a trillion words and still not scratch the surface of the magnitude of who God is. But, here is my best attempt at God in 10. “We the creation do not get to define the Creator.” He defines us.
