The Unknowable

Who is this God that is unknowable?  Funny question isn't it?  One moment he's empowering us to do great things and to be his voice for the world.  The next he tells us that he just wants to be with us.  He tells us there's nothing we can do to make him any more in love with us.  So which one is it.  Do we rest in God or do we fight for what he has called us to do?  This thought was brought up in class today... "You can't help God".  Yeah, really, think about it.  Can you help the creator of the world, who put the stars in place, who knows all of your thoughts, who can count the hairs on your head, who can wipe out nations in an instant?  What really can we do?  
Because he is our father and he takes pleasure in simply being with his children, we can love him and allow him to love us.  What would it do if we delivered nations from poverty but did not have love, or if we stopped sex trafficking around the world but did not love.  It would be meaningless the Bible says.  If we aren't stopping, and waiting, and loving God, we cannot love others.  Not in the way God loves others.  Our love is not so amazing, but when we have spent time with God, deep intimate time with God, we will be able to love others the way God loves them.  God's love will be coming out of us.  The Holy Spirit will guide us, it wont be about empathy or pity for others, but we will see them the way God sees them.  Have you ever seen someone the way God sees them?  Have you ever asked to see someone the way God sees them?  That's a hard thing to do when you feel justified about being annoyed with someone or prideful about it.  What about murderers, thieves, and men who start wars or genocides?  Does God love them?  What does God think about these people.  If you want a heart change towards someone... ask God to show you what he thinks about that person and how he feels about that person.  If you've really humbled yourself, you'll be able to tell them what God has shown you.  Intense right?  It can be if we can allow God to humble our prideful hearts.


These past couple of weeks have been about allowing the Holy Spirit to come and do his thing.  Talk about unknowable.  This person of the trinity can be intense at times but also calm and peaceful at other times.  He can reveal sin and he can heal brokenness.  He can empower believers and strengthen the weak.  Talk to some of the DTS students that are on outreach right now and ask them how powerful God is.  They wont hesitate to tell you of all the people who now want to follow Christ, the people who have been healed, the broken hearts that have been restored.  Last night I got to hear story after story from the actual people in the various countries about what God had been doing.  The Holy Spirit can work in Muslim countries and here in the United States.  Maybe sometimes we just decide not to allow him to move.  We are afraid of what might happen.  He might mess up our theology.  It's a fearful thing to let the Holy Spirit move in a place.  Sometimes he does things that we can't explain and that scares us.  We feel like we need to be able to comprehend and explain all that the Holy Spirit does.  Do you feel that way?  Are you suffocating the Holy Spirit because you're too afraid that some of the crazy stories you hear might actually be true?  Does it make the Holy Spirit a lessor person of the trinity if he does do those crazy things?  Or does it make him that more worthy of our praise and worship.  He can only do what the Father allows him to.  He is God.

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