The River Church of New Jersey

‘Who can becompared with the Lord our God, who is enthroned on high?’ (Ps 113:5)

God, by nature, is different, separate and outside from the rest of creation.  Interestingly enough, I’ve been noticing that a lot of descriptions about God from the secular perspective are nothing more than idols already ridiculed in the Bible.  Moreover, Bible explicitly teaches us to ‘have nothing to do with myths and superstition.’  This tells me, at least, that the writers of the Bible were already familiar w/ the kind of ‘insightful’ criticisms that secular world is spitting out these days.  If they would have just read up even a little bit on doctrine of God, than they wouldn’t come up w/ ridiculous descriptions as ‘flying spaghetti monster’ or ‘pink elephant’.

What really caught my attention, though, was how the writer of this psalm went on to describe God.  Rather than going off on abstract theological ramblings about God, he gave a description of his character, mainly his compassion.  I’m once again reminded that the things that win over the world are not arguments or even ‘being right.’  Rather, it’s the love and compassion we have w/ one another.  I’ve heard stories of Arabs turning to Christianity by the thousands b/c of the compassion they have witnessed in the midst of severe persecution.  Our act of love speaks much, much louder than arguments we win.

I pray that all believers would go and communicate love to the lost, rather than impose a form of an organized, mass produced, heartless, legalistic, condemning religion.  God HATES religion b/c it absolutely misrepresents Him!