The Whole of God...

What is a God? What is our God? Simple questions and ones you wouldn't think about too often. The dictionary says, a God is one of several deities presiding over some portion of worldly affairs, especially male deity. An image of a deity: an idol, any deified person or object, a nebulous powerful force imagined to be responsible for one's fate. These are the main dictionary definition of what a God is. The dictionary has no clue what God is only what Gods are.

This is the message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. 1 john 1:5

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Hebrews 4:12

Every good thing given and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the light, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadows. James 1:17

Gracious is the Lord and righteous; Yes our God is compassionate. Psalms 116:5

God is all these things and much more. God in whole who is one created the heavens and the earth. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 but the dictionary does get one thing right but only in part, God is one. The second part that says that God is several deities is the part that is wrong.

The world gets it wrong as well. People only know that God is of the brim and fire message or a God of hate, the God who gets mad all the time. My God is nothing of evil but of good and righteousness. My God Does not hate anyone but hates sin in people and the sin they commit. My God does not get mad but judges us and deals with us accordingly. My God when he needs to be brin and fire but not all time. 

When people do not look at the whole picture, they cannot fully understand the whole picture. When people only see those parts of God that are those things. It doesn't surprise me that people think that is what God is. Because all that they see are parts, not whole. God is whole, He is one sitting on the throne in heaven. 

That is why I think it is important to seek and worship God as a whole, as one. That way when the time comes to share your faith you will share the wholeness of God not just parts. So, when the enemy comes we have the whole of God fighting for us not just parts that if we are seeking will not win the battle only God as a whole can win the battle.

Tomorrow I will look at Some of the facets of God. 

All Bible verses taken from the NASB