"Missing God?"

There seems to be so little insight to God. Too many are working hard at taking the spiritual matters of God into realms never intended. We need to know our Father! We need to know Jesus!

God doesn't just sit in heaven looking for the next one to destroy. God made His intentions clear to Moses about Himself: "The Lord, the Lord God compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished..." (Ex. 34:7-6) God is willingly and wanting a relationship with us but at the same time He is serious about sin and truth. God is willing to do whatever it takes to get us to Him, whatever the cost but will not compromise the truth and sin must be dealt with.

When you look at Jesus, you see God. Jesus is the exact representation of God's nature (Heb. 1:3) and the perfect, striking image of God (Col. 1:15). As Jesus walked our earth, we see God working among the sinful. Truth was taught and held to and sin denounced. When we look at the suffering in this world, we need to realize it was sinful man that brought this about and God's righteousness that condemned sin. When man is distressed in their lives because of diseases, hurts and pains, God doesn't just dismiss it as nothing. He hurt because they hurt (Isa. 63:9). Here came Jesus into our world helping, healing because "He Himself took our infirmities and carried away our diseases." (Matt. 8:17). Jesus didn't heal everyone and that was not His intention. The intention of God through Jesus was to bring man back to Himself by sacrificing His Son to accomplish that. Maybe the reason we have such difficulty at understanding our Father is because we truly don't see the nature of sin in light of the holy love of God. Once we grasp that, we begin to see why all creation suffers from the beginning to now and God's redemption that is found in Christ Jesus. Just maybe we are missing our God!