Topic : God, nature of

While my young son Doug was looking at a full moon, he asked, “Mom, is God in the moon?” I explained that God is everywhere. “Is he in my tummy?” Doug wanted to know. “Well, sort of,” I responded, not sure where these questions wee leading. Then Doug declared, “God wants a banana.”

Buff Spies, in 11-91, Reader’s Digest

They say that God has infinite patience,
And that is a great comfort.
They say God is always there,
And that is a deep satisfaction.

They say that God will always take you back,
And I get lazy in that certitude.
They say that God never gives up,
And I count on that.

They say you can go away for years and years,
And He’ll be there, waiting, when you come back.
They say you can make mistake after mistake,
And God will always forgive and forget.

They say lots of things,
These people who never read the Old Testament.
There comes a time, A definite, for sure time,
When God turns around.

I don’t believe God shed his skin
When Christ brought in the New Testament;
Christ showed us a new side of God,
And it is truly wonderful.

But he didn’t change God.
God remains forever and ever
And that God is no fool.

Lois Cheney, God Is No Fool, pp. 55-6

The early church leader Augustine was once accosted by a heathen who showed him his idol and said, “Here is my god; where is thine?”

Augustine replied, “I cannot show you my God; not because there is no God to show, but because you have no eyes to see Him.”

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I have observed the power of the watermelon seed. It has the power of drawing from the ground and through itself 200,000 times its weight. When you can tell me how it takes this material and out of it colors an outside surface beyond the imitation of art, and then forms inside of it a white rind and within that again a red heart, thickly inlaid with black seeds, each one of which in turn is capable of drawing through itself 200,000 times its weight—when you can explain to me the mystery of a watermelon, you can ask me to explain the mystery of God. - William Jennings Bryan

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• Breaks his covenants (Judges 2:1, II Sam. 23:5, Isa. 55:3, Matt. 26:28)
• Suffers the righteous to be moved (Ps. 55:22, 121:3, 125:1,2; II Tim. 2:19)
• Leaves nor forsakes His own (Heb. 13:5, Matt. 28:20, Deut. 31:6)
• Permits them to be overcome (Prov. 10:30, Isa. 26:3,4; Rom. 8:37)
• Lets them be ashamed (Joel 2:26-7, Ps. 71:1, II Tim. 1:12)
• Allows them to perish (John 10:28, 6:35, 11:26; 3:16; Jude 24-5)
• Will let His kingdom be destroyed (Dan. 2:44, II Peter 1:10-11, Heb. 12:28)

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