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Comparing God to Us

“And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart. And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations.” Ezekiel 36:26-27

One of my favorite things about skateboarding is how different each skater is from one another. We have all been able to craft our own ways of doing the same thing. Each skater has their own look, their own style, and their own interpretation of skateboarding, but there is one thing we all have in common: we love to skateboard. But when you compare the best skater in the world with someone who just bought their first Walmart board, the difference is exponential. Now times that by a million!

In comparison to us, God is far greater than we are. He is the one person who is perfect and holy. We as humans were made in the image of God, but this does not put us on the same level as God. He is very different from us, but He desires for us to love and follow Him. When we receive Christ, we are able to get a better glimpse of His holiness and perfection. Ezekiel 36:26-27 says, “And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart. And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations.” While God is perfect and His ways are higher than our ways, He desires for us to have His heart. God knows that His followers are not perfect, but He allows us to be able to ask for forgiveness. And even then, He still invites us to be holy as He is holy. One big takeaway from Jesus coming to earth was that God wants us to have a close relationship with Him. God knows you and He knows your struggles; He understands them and He wants you to speak to Him frequently, just like you would with a friend. For me, that is very comforting knowing that the one true and perfect being desires to know me.

God also loves and desires a relationship with non-believers. The Bible says in 1 John 4:10, “This is real love–not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.” Humans instinctively desire relationships, and so does God. Although we are not perfect and never will be, God loves us. He desires for us to have a heart like His and to have a close, personal relationship with Him. There are many ways to look at God in comparison to us, but the main thing to understand is that we are very different; He is perfect, and we are very imperfect. We must see that God is Holy and worthy of all praise, and we are yet sinners who have been given grace by a Holy God. He loves us and He wants us to love Him in return and enter into His kingdom.

Pushing Further

1. Have you ever thought about how perfect God is in comparison to your sinful nature?
2. How can we strive to be holy as God is holy?

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