Now We Know | The Perfect Comparison
God is holy, we’re not. He’s perfect, we’re not. He’s omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient, we’re not. In the Old Testament, God through the prophet Isaiah spoke and said, “your thoughts are not my thoughts, your ways are not my ways.” Isaiah asked ”to who will you compare God? To what image will you liken Him?”
Since the fall of mankind people have wondered about God, what’s he like? But there was no one or anything to compare him to. That is until God himself took on a physical body and entered our World.
The Apostle John wrote, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… …The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” Jesus said, “anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.” And the Apostle Paul talking about Jesus said, “He is the image of the invisible God.”
The veil has been lifted and God through Jesus has been revealed to us, now we know what God is like. No, we cannot explain him, we cannot measure him, neither can we put him under a microspore or psychoanalyze him. But because Jesus lived among us now we know what God is like.
Here are a few things we learn about God because Jesus lived among us:
- God wants us to think about him as our Heavenly Father. Before Jesus, no man had ever referred to or related to God as a Father.
- That God is grace and all truth. He’ll tell us the truth about ourselves while at the same time showering us with grace.
- That we don’t make it to heaven for being good people. In Godly terms good means that you’ve committed no sin. This being the case, we’re all disqualified. The good news is that anyone who accepts Jesus’ forgiveness of sin has received a pass into heaven.
- That our difficult and painful circumstances are not God’s divine punishment. Because of Jesus, we discover that God uses our pain and suffering as an opportunity to manifest himself in our lives.
That he loves us unconditionally. No matter where we’ve been or what we’ve done, our Heavenly Father loves us.
Robert Cruz Jr.
Bobby Cruz Jr. became Senior Pastor of CDA Miami in 1999, continuing the work that his father, Bobby Cruz began in 1980. Bobby Jr. is an engaging speaker whose passion is to lead people in a growing relationship with Jesus. He has five children and he lives with his wife Ana in Doral, FL.