What other god sends himself into the realms of humanity to experience every. single hurt, sorrow, pain, joy, temptation, and struggle so that He can better relate and empathize with those He created? So that he can pave a way and say, "I've been there too, I understand". What other god?
What other god has grace so great for his people that would cause him to forgive all of them despite the fact that humanity is more than mildly imperfect?
What other god will come to you and tell you that He wants joy for you bigger than any joy you could possibly think up for yourself?
What other god doesn't just sit on a throne of mightiness and waits for us to come to him, but gets up and meets us where we are, amidst all the shit we find ourselves in?
What other god takes your dreams and then blows them up into this impossible, beautiful, magnificent dream and says that he wants to help you make THAT one, that BIG one happen for you?
I can't think of any. Not other than the God of Christ. He wants us to call him Father. That's a pretty intimate relationship there. That's not just King, Mighty One, God. He's all of those things, but also wants us to call him Father. As if everything else about his existence wasn't already mind-blowing enough.
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world." -C.S. Lewis.
If this is not the God you know, then I assure you that you don't know the right god. If this is not the God you know, I promise you that this is the God you want to know. I promise. I promise with every deep feeling in my heart.
