Hosea 11: 9
I will not execute my fierce anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come to destroy.
These past weeks is budget planning week and when I'm faced with what I deem to be sheer stupidity, I get really upset. It didn't help that on one day, one colleague of another colleague had blatently said something untrue of me to management and I was outraged.
When I'm upset and angry at work, it is as if a volcano has exploded because I make it very obvious. I'm not one who forgets and forgives easily and if I could have my way, I would steamroll over people who offend me.
I'm also one who believes in logic and consequences, and that is where today's verse hit me because I often wonder why God does or does not do things accordingly.
The truth is, when I read the verse "I am God and not man", it made me really assured that God is God and not of the behaviour nor logic of man. If not for this fact, we could be dealing with a punishment in most situation or an unceasing rage.
I'm grateful when I consider how God's sovereignty and plans for us is always covered with a inexplicable love that translates to grace for us. For the times we disobey, or do nothing that pleases Him, He still loves us and never can bring Himself to destroy us - even if we deserve it.
This is God, one of grace and agape love and bigger than my imagination.
M.
21 October 2013
God, not man
Hosea 11: 9
I will not execute my fierce anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come to destroy.
These past weeks is budget planning week and when I'm faced with what I deem to be sheer stupidity, I get really upset. It didn't help that on one day, one colleague of another colleague had blatently said something untrue of me to management and I was outraged.
When I'm upset and angry at work, it is as if a volcano has exploded because I make it very obvious. I'm not one who forgets and forgives easily and if I could have my way, I would steamroll over people who offend me.
I'm also one who believes in logic and consequences, and that is where today's verse hit me because I often wonder why God does or does not do things accordingly.
The truth is, when I read the verse "I am God and not man", it made me really assured that God is God and not of the behaviour nor logic of man. If not for this fact, we could be dealing with a punishment in most situation or an unceasing rage.
I'm grateful when I consider how God's sovereignty and plans for us is always covered with a inexplicable love that translates to grace for us. For the times we disobey, or do nothing that pleases Him, He still loves us and never can bring Himself to destroy us - even if we deserve it.
This is God, one of grace and agape love and bigger than my imagination.
M.
I will not execute my fierce anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come to destroy.
These past weeks is budget planning week and when I'm faced with what I deem to be sheer stupidity, I get really upset. It didn't help that on one day, one colleague of another colleague had blatently said something untrue of me to management and I was outraged.
When I'm upset and angry at work, it is as if a volcano has exploded because I make it very obvious. I'm not one who forgets and forgives easily and if I could have my way, I would steamroll over people who offend me.
I'm also one who believes in logic and consequences, and that is where today's verse hit me because I often wonder why God does or does not do things accordingly.
The truth is, when I read the verse "I am God and not man", it made me really assured that God is God and not of the behaviour nor logic of man. If not for this fact, we could be dealing with a punishment in most situation or an unceasing rage.
I'm grateful when I consider how God's sovereignty and plans for us is always covered with a inexplicable love that translates to grace for us. For the times we disobey, or do nothing that pleases Him, He still loves us and never can bring Himself to destroy us - even if we deserve it.
This is God, one of grace and agape love and bigger than my imagination.
M.
