March 7, 2026, the 66th day of 2026
Does it Fit God's Nature?
The problem we have with God, and even with each other, is misunderstandings. But when we know and trust God, misunderstandings don't m... View MoreMarch 7, 2026, the 66th day of 2026
Does it Fit God's Nature?
The problem we have with God, and even with each other, is misunderstandings. But when we know and trust God, misunderstandings don't make us doubt or lose our faith in Him.
When we don't understand something about God, what we should do is search out and see if we have a misconception about God that caised the misunderstanding.
It is the same with one another. When we have a misunderstanding, do we seek to resolve it? Or do we let it ruin our relationship?
If we truly love someone, we will know the true from the false, even if we cannot prove it. Love gives us insight that a mere acquaintance does not have. We don't want to hear from Jesus as Philip did in John 14:9 “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me?"
When we hear somethjng about God that does it fit with Who we know He is, and it needs a response--as sometimes it doesn't--we can go to God's word and see if there is some misconception in the reading of the verse or verses.
We also ask?
Who is God speaking to? What is the background? What does it actually say? What is the best translation of thr verse? With instant access to various translations online, we can see the verse in multiple translations and compare.
Is our history of hurts interfering with how we are reading the verse? Do we have false assumptions we have never shaken about the character of God?
With the proper assumptions we can battle misunderstandings. God is not a one-faceted being. Above all, He is God, the Almighty. He existes without beginning or end. He is the Creator.
We are made in His image, but we lack the fullness of God in us. We are redeemed from a fallen world, but we still dwell in the dying flesh and battle the sin nature--the old man.
Satan hates God. Satan hates anything of God, which includes us. He battles us and can whisper lies and doubts into our mind. If we are not on guard against him and his monions, we will take those lies in as our own.
We must cling to the nature of God, which the Bible expresses. God is good. God is just, holy, righteous, all knowing, all seeing, all powerful and yet is merciful, loving, caring, considerate, compassionate, trustworthy, faithful, truthful, long-suffering as well.
And that is only a fraction of Who God is, of His nature, because we have no pure versions of these attributes to compare Him to, except in Jesus, God in the flesh. And many don't understand Jesus either.
And since Jesus has ascended and is in Heaven until His return, we do not have His physical presence to show us the Father, to teach us with His physical voice.
We have an even richer connection to God when we repent and surrender our life to Jesus as our Lord and Master, our King. But that does not make us all knowing.
We can ask God for wisdom, but our human brain will only take in so much wisdom at a time. And if we don't build upon that, adding knowledge by studying the Bible, we will only grow so much in our understanding.
Since we have never met a human to compare to God, or have seen any of these attributes shown perfectly, it can leave us without the knowledge we need to understand the nature of God, if we are looking to humans for an example of it.
Jesus gives us an answer to that, so simple, but so deep, we could write of it and never come to the end of it.
"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.'"
John 14:6
And continuing:
"If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” Philip said to Him, 'Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.' Jesus said to him, 'Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, "Show us the Father"? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.'"
John 14:7-11
Stay strong! Study Jesus to understand the nature of God. Then you can study the whole Bible with a clearer understanding.
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