I very much enjoyed reading an article on God & Natural Law this morning. It comes at an interesting time.
Just yesterday, I was explaining to a friend, and last night to another friend, that even after so many years of deep faith, “growing in the Lord”, and experiencing miracles (yes, super-natural events that break or bend the natural laws), I STILL sometimes struggle with the notion of a PERSONAL GOD, who has a personality and cares about me.
There are three concepts here:
- The existence of God
- The difference between god as a force, or God as a person
- If God is a person, does he care for me individually, and interact with me personally.
(Jesus is a topic for another post.)
If it were allowable biblically, I’d place my hand on a Bible and swear that I have experienced that God exists, is a person, not a force, and that He cares for me individually. The problem is, we are placed on a planet where the “god of this age” [Satan] is at work with his limited power to influence minds and hearts as we agree with the ideas that he and his agents introduce to us.
Forget “fake news”, remember “TMI”? We are in the TMI age, and it seems that we have a natural tendency to get bored with “sound doctrine”. Check out 2 Timothy 4:3, but also the cross-references on the right.
The point is, to be an overcomer, as described in Revelation, we need to be aware that the “powers” of darkness are battling for our mind. To make us think less of God, less of Jesus, and more of ourselves. Beware of the teachings and philosophies that will cause us to think of us as masters of our own fate. When we worship (focus on) the fundamental laws (as described in the article referenced in the first sentence of this post) or on the secondary or tertiary laws that stem from the “transcendent truth”–and our ability to use, explain or manipulate them, we are merely worshiping the creation, not the Creator, which is idolatry.
Remember, “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.” Make it your Honor to search out the “things”, and remember that God is glorified when we merely discover the “things” that he hid for us to discover and enjoy, and have a little moment with Him over the discovery, as it is our “glory” to do so.
