Who is God III cont.

The last post I asked a question regarding who God is. That question was how we related to God as far as sin is concerned. The reason I ask is that it is a great way to get an understanding of how we stand in the full scope of creation and God.

The simple answer so as not to belabor the point is that we have two ways to view God. He is either so close to us that sin affects Him greatly as a being or He is so far above that it does not affect Him at all.

Now it is easy to say that of course sin affects God. And this is true in that He sees His creation disobeying Him and choosing sin over Him, but it does not over power Him and He is not chased off by it. He is over it and all things that exist. Sometimes we begin to think that our sin is too much for Him or what we are involved in He cannot handle. The truth is that God is so far above it, the only reason He is involved is that He loves us.

I think we also begin to think that this earth consumes His power, meaning it takes all of it to manage us and the earth. He is not consumed by it. Infect, He is far from it. He could have an infinite number of earths and His power would hardly be touched. He is that big and that powerful.

This has many meaningful ramifications which we will discuss later on, but a passage that illustrates this quite well is Psalms 139. My favorite part is verse 6 where the psalmist says God's knowledge is too high and he cannot attain unto it. How perfect is that. I believe that we spend too much time trying to be God, acting as if we have His knowledge, instead of finding our place as His creation.