Who is God and Why Should I Care?

We’re going to kick off the year with a nice, simple topic: Who is God and Why Should I Care?

Wait ...  That’s not simple.  What did I get myself into?
Oh well, too late now.  :)

Who is God?  I can tell you who He isn’t; He isn’t cruel, He isn’t spiteful, He isn’t selfish, He isn’t impatient, nor is He unkind or unjust. (Despite what we may think or feel sometimes)  He is, however, wise, grace-filled, mercy-filled, gentle, forgiving, never-changing, a promise keeper, and as 1 John 4:8 states, “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”  His timing is perfect, His decisions are perfect, He is perfect - He is God our father, our savior, our conscience, if we choose to accept.  He is THE Father, THE Son, and THE Holy Spirit

Why Should I Care? I think to answer this question, we must first answer this:  Who Are We?  Simply put, we are sinners.  Sinners we were born and sinners we will remain.  Being a sinner means to go against God and His commandments (Exodus 20:3-17).  Thankfully God sent His one and only son down to become flesh so He could do His father’s will; to mend the relationship between God and man by shedding His own blood on the cross to cover the sins that we have committed, are committing and will commit.  So that our sins could be forgiven whenever we ask for forgiveness and repent of those sins, to never commit them again (or certainly try). Exodus 10:17, “Now therefore, forgive my sin, please, only this once, and plead with the Lord your God only to remove this death from me.” Jesus, the son of God, spilled that blood and separated Himself from the glory of his Father God for three days before He rose again to dwell in His rightful place, at the right hand of God. 

So, why should you care about who God is?  Because we, as sinners, will be separated from the glory of God, from all of who He is, for eternity; to dwell in darkness (aka hell) never to see or experience His love again ... IF we never choose Him.  If we deny Him and all He has done for us, then we will sadly experience this eternal darkness.  If we choose not to follow His lead, his vision for our lives or accept the love and the sacrifice He made all those years ago ... the consequences are absolutely devastating.

One should care about Who God Is because it means salvation and salvation is easily achieved.  He simply asks that we believe and accept Him.  We need to believe with all our being/have faith (Hebrews 11:1) that He is the son of God, that He died on the cross for our sins and that three days later He rose again.  That he later ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of God.  He asks that we choose to accept Him as our ruler and as the Lord of our lives.  He asks that we choose to accept his love for us, that we choose to put our faith in Him, that we will trust Him to lead our lives in a way that will be far greater and more fulfilling than anything we could ever imagine or hope to achieve.

We need to get on bended knee (figuratively or not) and ask that He forgive us our sins, to remove the threat of death (the separation from His glory for an eternity) and tell Him that we surrender our lives to Him.   That we believe His Word (the Bible), that we believe what He said, what He has done for us, and that His promises will and always have been kept.