Let's Let God be God!

"To put the second commandment in the place of the first is wrong and sinful."

 Theologian Millard Erickson made that comment while interacting with the question, "Is God selfish?"  After all, as Erickson goes on to point out, ". . . the highest goal of God is apparently his own glory."

The first and second commandment to which the theologian refers are not those from the Decalogue, but from Luke 10:27,"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."

Our culture is very prone to do just that, though.  

 God says, "My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways. . . . For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:8-9)  Yet we demand that God reason by our system of thought, and that He make decisions based on our value system.  

The Apostle Paul used a different picture to make the same point.  "[W]ho are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it?" (Romans 9:20)

 

Let's let God be God.  He can handle it, and we'll be better for it.

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