How’s Your Theology?
I’m persuaded that a lot of our concern, nervousness, discouragement, and hopelessness is the results of dangerous theology. At its core, what’s the Bible all about? The existence, character, and plan of God. Each different side of Scripture flows out of the fact of who God is. A foul or weak theology of God will result in weak spot in different areas of theology, and non secular weaknesses in day by day dwelling. I had this expertise repeatedly in counseling. I’d be working with somebody who was struggling to belief God, however, as I listened to him describe who he thought God was, I instantly understood why he had hassle trusting him. I’d usually suppose, “If I assumed that this was who God is, I’d have hassle trusting him too.”
One frequent mistake in our purposeful theology of God is considering he’s too small. The God in our minds lacks the superior, superb, and incalculable energy and authority that the true God of the Bible has. The God of the Bible created the world out of nothing. The God of the Bible holds his creation collectively by his energy. The God of the Bible instructions the forces of nature to do his will. The God of the Bible is sovereign over every little thing and everybody. The God of the Bible guidelines the nations, and his will will probably be completed. The God of the Bible reigns in majestic splendor so nice that nothing compares to him.
Within the On a regular basis Gospel devotional, Paul David Tripp leads readers via the complete Bible in a 12 months, serving to you join the reworking energy of Scripture to your on a regular basis life.
The superior energy and authority of God is on show within the latter a part of the guide of Jeremiah, as God proclaims his judgment on the nations that encompass his individuals. That is the Lord, and the nations are answerable to him. Nobody can query his energy or the authority he has to guage whom he’ll decide. The phrase of the Lord got here to Jeremiah (Jer. 46:1), and God advised him to announce his judgment on Egypt, the Philistines, Moab, Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar and Hazor, Elam, and Babylon. This announcement of his judgment is an superior testomony to God’s energy.
He’s the last word King over each certainly one of these nations. He has the ability to do for them, with them, and towards them in anyway he wills, each time he wills to do it. They haven’t any energy to problem or resist his sovereign will. These bulletins are within the Bible so we are able to know that that is who God is. He not solely guidelines over these nations; he instructions the complete universe. God sits on his throne in infinite energy and glory. All of the issues that scare you or offer you nervousness exist beneath his almighty rule. As a result of God has this sort of energy and authority, nothing that you just want is past his energy to ship.
Could the God of your ideas not be too small. Could the infinite glory of his energy and authority overwhelm something in creation that may paralyze you with concern.
This text is customized from Everyday Gospel: A Daily Devotional Connecting Scripture to All of Life by Paul David Tripp.
