You can’t analyze God.

1 Corinthians 1:18-19

“You can’t analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious,” writes C.S. Lewis.  But yet to our shame many of us try, and I did say try, like the man who told the preacher, I’m leaving my wife for a woman who makes me happy, and I know God desires me to be happy.  That dude needs to have a talk with Job, in that it was God who asked the devil if he had noticed His servant Job, a righteous man.  Now what God allowed to happen to Job by the devil does not look to this writer as happiness. 

So let’s examine what is being said in 1 Corinthians 1:18-19, “For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”  A division is taking place in this world, those who put faith in the finished work of the cross, and those who believe it to be total foolishness.  I believe Skip Moen is on target with these insights; "God does not come to us in nicely defined, rationally explained, thought categories.  God does not fit Himself into our theological textbooks. The Hebrew God breaks all the rules.  He is near, yet transcendent; clothed in human form, yet holy; more terrifying than can be imagined, yet compassionate; invisible, yet revealed; judging, yet merciful; sovereign, yet humble.  No matter where you look, God breaks the molds."  - Skip Moen

C.S. Lewis wrote that George McDonald had a profound affect on his life and his writings and I also believe I can also make that statement.  This is a quote from George McDonald, "Man finds it hard to get what he wants because he does not want the best. God finds it hard to give because He would give the best and man will not take it." - George McDonald

My desire is to awaken the dead who have placed faith in a denomination or anything other than Jesus Christ, and to make them search the Scripture for truth.  I believe the best will not be found in anything this world can offer, nor in anything you earn, it will be found in the grace of our Father, who has given His Son, a gift that many call free, and yes, it comes without earning it, but never forget it cost God, for it was His only Son.
It is time to get honest, not with me but with yourself, are you sure of the path you are on?   

Do you fear what is waiting around the corner, death is a certainty and the Scriptures are clear on this, Jesus came to conquer both death and sin, and for all who come into a relationship with Christ, it no longer has a hold on us.  The apostle Paul’s words are very clear about who we are in Christ; “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  (Romans 8:37-39)

From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice