It’s been over a month since I’ve blogged, I’m so sorry I’m
just now writing. How time flies, I have so much to tell y’all!
This past month I’ve learned heaps of stuff that I can’t
wait to share (I’m going to go week by week from where I left off over the next
few days to hopefully make more sense).
Week 3: Character of God
What do you think God’s like when things are going well in
your life, when you’re happy? He’s good, He’s Faithful, He’s kind, etc. What do
you think God is like when things aren’t going well, when you’re upset? He left
me, He’s punishing me, He doesn’t care, etc. I don’t know what you think in
these everyday situations, but often times I tend to base God’s character off
of my feelings and my emotions, but that’s not who God is. During
this week we were challenged with so much theology, I felt like my mind was
running a race, but I loved it! There was one thing that stuck with my more
than anything else-Exodus 34:6-7 “The Lord passed before him and proclaimed
‘The Lord, the Lord a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding
in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and transgressions and sin, but who will by no means clear
the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the
children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.’” This verse is God
telling us who He is…can’t argue with that, right! It’s so simple, it’s so
true, this is who God is, this is what He calls himself, and this is who He’s
proven himself to be. Our God is so merciful, so gracious, so compassionate
toward His children, and He’s so patient (seriously though, our God is so patient, think how much we mess up,
why doesn’t he just zap us? Cause He’s slow to anger and so stinkin patient). This
is who our God is and I need to start living like this is the God I serve. He
is constant and He has given us this verse to hold onto and remind us of whom
He is (cause as dumb humans we need that, to remember how great our God is even
though He created everything). I challenge you to put this verse on your
bathroom mirror, your pocket, in your room, around your house, in your fridge,
or wherever, put it somewhere so that you will read it everyday to be reminded
of the character of our God and how good it is that no matter our circumstances
and feelings He is who He says He is (mines currently above my bed so I can
wake up with the reminder and go to sleep resting in who He is). Go for it! See
how this one verse can change your total view of our God.
