How do you see God ?

There are many opinions of God, the God of the Old Testament, and the God of the New Testament! Some people don't even let the bible get in the way of what they believe, others are misinformed greatly. Do I write this to sit in judgement, or thinking I know everything, absolutely not! I do believe the bible has all the answers to know  Gods character! When you are born again, the bible says seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened! This is such a great invitation he offers here, He is saying I want to take over all the expenses of your life! God is offering you a look into one of greatest books every written. If your thirsty he offers you to come to drink from him and you will never thirst again. He is offering us eternal life, he is offering us a unconditional love, a love that is saying don't clean your act up first, but come as you are and I will make you whole. He is a God who so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son to die for us, and all who believe in him,,shall not perish, but have eternal life!!

That right there sounds like a God I would love to know. A God I have come to love, who continues to show himself to me everyday. The thing is we must make room for Him in our lives, We must let His WORD be first place in our lives.  To many they don't know God in that light, and that's just touching on a small amount of his character. Some see him with the Old Testament eyes, not with the eyes of your heart, here's how Paul said it, Ephesians 1:17- I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you , the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

That tells me that we are able to know this wonderful God. The word of God says He is the same yesterday, today, forever, He is, and will  always will be a God of Love!

So why are so many Sons and Daughters left wandering around in a wilderness of defeat? I believe they don't know God's character, I believe they gauge him according to things happening in their own life. Lets face it, we all have had a friend or someone hurt us,in some way, some how, and we may have said that's it, I will never trust them again! Or we may have said, I won't trust ANY one again, so without knowing it, we put up walls up around us. Then their is a filter that we view people through, and believe it or not, God falls into that category as well for many!If a prayer wasn't answered,this is where God gets his character judged. Some were left with only a huge question of disappointment!The good news is their are real answers to real disappointments, but you have to really want to find them.

In the book of John 8:12-47 Jesus is talking to the people and telling them who he is! He said I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. He also said to them if you hold to my teaching you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and truth will set you free. That is the key right in that statement! The Pharisees challenged him on many things in this chapter about who HE WAS. They couldn't see the truth, and it was right in front of them. Love was in their presence. He wanted them to see if they hold to his teaching then that would make them free. Jesus told them you are ready to kill me, and you have no place for my word. He wanted them to see who they were listening to, and it wasn't His Father! Jesus also told them because they couldn't HEAR what he was saying about who he was they were listening to their father," the devil".

I know God has many promises in his word for the church, do all walk in them, do all get to experience his goodness, do all believe enough to cross the line, and say I'm going the distance with this God of the bible? That's a  big question, but one we need to ask ourselves, and not be like the Pharisees here in that chapter and doubt God's character. We need to seek and we will find, knock and the door will open, and we need to  believe that when we drink we will never thirst for any other thing but Jesus! He is a good and loving Shepard, He is the way, the truth and the life! So get to know the God of this bible, and let him take down all these walls and false pretense's. Act on truth and  you will be set free, continue in truth, value the word and more will come!