How Do You View God

What is your perception of God? If you were asked to describe God from what you know about Him, who would you say He is?  In Church, when I hear how other Christians praise and honour God in prayer I would wish I could pray as they do. I never thought of how they came up with those beautiful attributes of God; all I wanted was to be like them. Little did I know that the way you know God determines how you relate to him. While I desired to address God in a powerful way in prayers, my perception of Him was different. I knew him to be powerful but not as loving as the Bible portrays Him to be; instead, I saw him as a very strict father who keeps track of the failures of his children so He could punish them.

What a wrong perception of God you might think, right? How do you see Him from your own perspective? He is a loving and merciful Father who is always willing to deliver than to punish, isn’t it? Yeah; that is what the Bible says He is. I congratulate you if you know Him that way and you believe in Him, but for me, that wasn’t the case. Why didn’t I believe God loves as He claims to be? I prayed for help and He did not act swiftly, I wanted him to make me greater than those that don’t believe in him and he didn’t. Instead, I saw that the very people who didn’t care about him were the ones progressing than me.

Our doubts are raised by the challenges of life.

I discovered that I was not the only one who had such perception of God, the Psalmist and Job had a similar feeling at a point in time.

These were their expressions:

Job said,

The Psalmist also said,

Have you ever found yourself in a situation that made you have similar feelings? Perhaps at the moment, you are experiencing hard times in your marriage, ill health or financial challenges and you have been praying, but everywhere is quiet. While you are expecting immediate help from God, your problems are rather multiplying. Does God appear to be the same God you trusted in? Can you still trust and lean on him even in difficult moments? When faced with difficult situations God seems to be out of our reach, all we see and feel is pain and rejection.

 God’s delay is not denial

The good news is, God is not limited by the way we perceive him, and our perception does not change him from being who He is. When I thought I was waiting in vain and was almost giving up, his mercies showed up and engulfed me. He delivered me and filled my heart with joy I had never experienced in my life before. I now know that he is not eager to punish his earring children rather, eager to forgive, deliver and bless them.

This is what He says about Himself:

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We are confronted by the schemes of the devil

Do you know what? We have an enemy who always condemns us; he makes us feel miserable and doubt God’s love. He has stood against other people of God and we are no exceptions. He is very crafty and uses the word of God in a deceitful way to achieve his goal. This enemy is the devil who is called Satan.

He asked Eve,

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He incited King David to number the Israelites contrary to the Will of God. The scripture says, “Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel. But God was displeased with this thing, and he struck Israel”. 1 Chron.21:1,7

He took our Lord to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him,

He incited Peter to rebuke Jesus when Jesus predicted his death to them because he wanted to disrupt the work of our salvation. Mark 8:31

Our Lord said, lies are the native language of Satan and he is the father of lies. John.8: 44.

He disguises himself as an angel of light, and he is the accuser of the brethren. When in difficulties he tries to brainwash us into believing that God has forgotten about us. But we know that God’s word is sure and there is no lie in it. I have tested it and I can testify about it.

 Tribulations are opportunities for God’s blessing

So we know that,

I pray that these scriptures would deepen your view of who God is, and cause you to remain firm in him come what may.

Drop your comment about how you view God.