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I was thinking about this today, and it seems obvious to me that to most Christians, it is left as a mere solution to a cosmological problem, as if the fact serves only to help explain the origin of all things. From there we seem to be free to get lost among the myriad of frightful tales of God's holiness, fury, and destructive power. People tend to see Him in slightly different ways, though the image of a figure so disconnected, so other-than His creation that He's merely holding back a kind of long awaited release of some hatred for the created order, is an all-to-common even if left unsaid, fearful expectation I seem to encounter frequently.
But have you stopped to think about what God's being the Creator really means recently? We know what the scriptures teach. But what about creation? It seems to me that, if God really is the author, finisher and chief architect of all that is, then no matter your sin, your ailment, God already knows exactly how things went wrong. He knows the bounds. He's seen billions of His creatures break down. He knows what they need, and how to fix them. For me, pondering this seems to take the edge off of approaching God: I'm not approaching an individual who hates everything about me, I'm a creature approaching his Creator, who knows everything about me. And so must He know everything about each and every one of us, and why would a Creator fundamentally hate His own creation? Ezekiel seems to have stumbled on something similar in showing that God takes no pleasure in the death of even the wicked (Ezekiel 33:11). Even in pondering the picture of the Son of God, sought out and surrounded by iniquitous sinners, His own creation, we see Him healing and saving them without anger and praising them for their faith.
That, for me, can change things dramatically when I get lost in the fear of God's other-ness. Shouldn't this also serve as a basis for how we interpret the things of God though? No matter what we're reading, we should always remember context, right? Well, the source of these things is always part of that context.
But have you stopped to think about what God's being the Creator really means recently? We know what the scriptures teach. But what about creation? It seems to me that, if God really is the author, finisher and chief architect of all that is, then no matter your sin, your ailment, God already knows exactly how things went wrong. He knows the bounds. He's seen billions of His creatures break down. He knows what they need, and how to fix them. For me, pondering this seems to take the edge off of approaching God: I'm not approaching an individual who hates everything about me, I'm a creature approaching his Creator, who knows everything about me. And so must He know everything about each and every one of us, and why would a Creator fundamentally hate His own creation? Ezekiel seems to have stumbled on something similar in showing that God takes no pleasure in the death of even the wicked (Ezekiel 33:11). Even in pondering the picture of the Son of God, sought out and surrounded by iniquitous sinners, His own creation, we see Him healing and saving them without anger and praising them for their faith.
That, for me, can change things dramatically when I get lost in the fear of God's other-ness. Shouldn't this also serve as a basis for how we interpret the things of God though? No matter what we're reading, we should always remember context, right? Well, the source of these things is always part of that context.
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