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J"'KIND
OFGOD
DOYOUWORSHIP?
by
Roderick C. Meredith
Where did you get your concepts of God? Here is a
surprising truth that may shock you!
Y
ou may have heard
the emotional evange–
list ask on television:
"Do you know the Lord
Jesus Christ ton ight? Do you
feel
his p resence i n your
heart?"
Is an emotional "feeling" the
w
A Y
yo
u
come to
know
and
understand
the
true
God?
Most religious people have simply
grown up mimicking from childhood
the type of religious talk and attitude
their elders displayed. They have not
PROVEO wby they believe as they
do---or why they picture God and
think of him
as
they do.
Yet, to really KNOW God-to
become
acquainted
with him-and
to ultimately be BORN as his literal
SON-this is the supreme PURPOSE
of your life!
How, then, can you truly KNOW
God- his thoughts and attitudes–
the
w
A Y
he will act- what
kind
of
personality he really is?
God Re veals His Na t ur e
There are three basic means by
which you can come to know and
really understand the true God–
the Creator of heaven and earth.
The first way is by carefully
studying what God has produced–
his creation-the thing we sorne–
times cal! nature. The apostle Paul
knew this. He was inspired to write
in Romans 1:20, "For the invisible
things of him from the creation of
the world are clearly seen,
being
understood by the things that are
made..
.. "
June / J uly 1982
So evident is the supreme intelli–
gence of God in his creation, that
the atheist is totally without excuse
for denying God's existence. This is
a
/aw-abiding
universe. God is
cl.early revealed in nature as a God
of
LA
w
and order-of supreme wis–
dom and purpose bebind every cre–
ation.
T ry to break the law of gravity
sometime! The unity of nature–
the constancy of its inexorable
laws- all point to the nature and
character of the Creator. God's cre–
ation
did not evo/ve!
l ts laws
remain the same. Charles Darwin's
own son said,
"We cannot prove
that a single species has been
changed."
God decreed (Gen.
1:25) that every plant and animal
should bring forth "after his kind."
Not once has this decree been vio–
lated.
God's laws do not change! All
nature thunders forth this truth.
This principie applies to
spiritua/
as well
as
physical things.
Study
God's creation
if
you truly wish to
understand your Creator.
The
Bible and "nature" both teach that
God's plan and his laws do not
alter. "The works of his hands are
verity and judgment; al! his com–
mandments are sure. T hey stand
fast for ever and ever, and are done
in truth and uprightness" (Ps.
111 :7-8).
Seco nd Witness Needed
[n contrast to the united testimony
of nature, human beings are
divided and confused in their ideas
of God. I t has been said, "Man
creates God in his own image." l n
the
majority of cases,
that is
true!
People of every nation and
tengue have always worshiped
something. But their "god" was
usually a product of their imagi–
nations- a god that would con–
form to their
human
standards,
laws and ways of looking at
things.
Even today, most professing
Christians
read their
OWN
idea of
God into the Bible.
Their concep–
tion of God is just as narrow and
limited
as
their own environment,
training and mental outlook has
been.
Other people go to the opposite
extreme. They think of God as a
far-off spiritual power with little or
no direct concern with the human
family. They imagine that God is
"wise" enough to
let us alone
to
choose our own amusements, socie–
ty, laws-our
own religion
the way
we
want to have it. They think they
are philosophic, cosmopolitan ,
modern.
So they make God in their
own image!
In every nation, city and family
there are people with differing
human
ideas of what God is like.
Let's QUIT trying to make God in
our
own image!
The Holy Bible is the
revealed
Word of the Creator God.
It
was
written to show us the nature of
God, and how we should live and
worship him- that we might be bis
cbildren. Diligently
studying
your
Bible is the second way to come to
know God.
Tt
is the
second witness
needed to dispel man's confusion in
bis ideas of God.
If
you have
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