Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you by his love; He will exult over you with loud singing.
What comes to mind when you think about God? Do you think a white bearded man in the sky or possibly an Adonis character in a blue tunic? You know what I’m talking about. We have all these pictures and caricatures of God, but do they get the point across. When it comes to Jesus, I’ll be honest, I think He looked like a normal person. Isaiah 53 talks how “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.” So how then should we view God?
For me the thought that often comes to my brain is God as our loving Father. I feel like I often see myself as a child learning to walk as my godly fathers sings over and encourages me as I come to Him. Now you don’t have to think exactly like me, but the important thing is that we think of God accurately. A.W. Tozer once said, “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” Let us strive then over these next few weeks to get to know Him more accurately in knowledge and relationship.
“O God, I have tasted thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the triune God, I want to want thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me thy glory, I pray thee, that so I may know thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.” Then give me grace to rise and follow thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus’ name, Amen.” A.W. Tozer