The answer for a big bad world is not less of God, it is more, much more and not just more of God, but the God of Scripture who reveals Himself in might to the mighty, in compassion to the hurting, in patience to the weary. A God of glory, majesty, and might who is unlike ourselves and this is good for we are weak, broken, sinful wretches who even if we identify our great weakness and the disease that ails us, are incapable of helping ourselves. Yet Paul presents a God richly clothed in wisdom and knowledge, who judges with that same wisdom and decrees in perfect righteousness so that we, even we, are caught up into His blessed acts of giving gifts to those most underserving. Having then seen the grace of God, and God who gives it to us, we drop our variety acts of self-righteousness, pride, and envy and we turn with our eyes, hands, and hearts lift to the heavens and we sing aloud a doxology to the Lord - a doxology that is both practice and practicum, for it in worship of God that in beholding Him we become like Him. |
