When is god

Not a chance! Believe me, I know He is much more! Share this. Who Is God? David Sanford Crosswalk. Today on Christianity. To begin, we must not fall into the trap of thinking about God in the same way that we think of earthly things.

God is not subject to human limitation. If someone asks us where we are, there is only one truthful answer; we can be in only one place at a time. The same is not true of God. God can be everywhere at once. Though it can be hard to grasp, this is what people of faith believe. They believe God is present with everyone at the same time.

Simultaneously, God is in heaven. The Christian concept of the Trinity is key here. Christians believe that, as our Father in heaven, God loves us like a parent loves his children. There are some instances within the Old Testament of God the Father coming down to earth—perhaps most notably as a pillar of smoke or fire when leading the Israelites out of Egypt. The gospels claim that God the Son came to earth in the person of Jesus Christ.

The Bible is totally sufficient for telling us all about who God is, how we can know Him, and how we can serve Him. The Bible describes for us who God is. God is the All-Powerful Creator of the universe. He is holy, loving, and perfect. God is totally trustworthy and safe. He alone is our salvation. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. And who is the Rock except our God? It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect.

He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to stand on the heights. Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

I finally learned to trust the One who knows all things and accept that some questions may never be answered. We prove that we trust God when we refuse to worry. God wants us to live by discernment—revelation knowledge, not head knowledge. It's difficult to exercise discernment if you're always trying to figure everything out. But when you're willing to say, "God, I can't figure this out, so I'm going to trust You to give me revelation that will set me free," then you can be comfortable in spite of not knowing.

Trusting God often requires not knowing how God is going to accomplish what needs to be done and not knowing when He will do it. We often say God is never late, but generally He isn't early either. Because He uses times of waiting to stretch our faith in Him and to bring about change and growth in our lives. We spend a lot of time in our lives waiting because change is a process.

Many people want change, but they don't want to go through the waiting process. But the truth is, waiting is a given—we are going to wait.

The question is, are we going to wait the wrong or right way? If we wait the wrong way, we'll be miserable; but if we decide to wait God's way, we can become patient and enjoy the wait. It takes practice, but as we let God help us in each situation, we develop patience, which is one of the most important Christian virtues. Patience is a fruit of the Spirit see Galatians It's developed only under trial, so we must not run from difficult situations. But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be [people] perfectly and fully developed [with no defects], lacking in nothing James As we develop patience, the Bible says we finally feel completely satisfied—lacking nothing.

Even our relationship with God involves progressive changes. My relationship with God is so much different now than it was in the early days of my Christian experience.

It is not nearly as emotionally exciting Every change I've gone through has made me more mature, solid and well-grounded. We learn to trust God by going through many experiences that require trust. By seeing God's faithfulness over and over, we let go of trusting ourselves, and gradually we place our trust in Him.

Looking at it like this, it is easy to see how timing plays an important part in learning to trust God. If He did everything we asked for immediately, we would never grow and develop. Timing and trust work side by side. God gives us hopes and dreams for certain things to happen in our lives, but He doesn't always allow us to see the exact timing of His plan. Although frustrating, not knowing the exact timing is often what keeps us in the program.

There are times when we might give up if we knew how long it was going to take, but when we accept God's timing, we can learn to live in hope and enjoy our lives while God is working on our problems.

We know that God's plan for our lives is good, and when we entrust ourselves to Him, we can experience total peace and happiness. The book of Genesis tells the story of Joseph, who waited many years for the fulfillment of the dream God had given him. He was falsely accused and imprisoned before the time came for him to do what God had shown him he was to do. Exodus tells us that God led the Israelites the longer, harder way on their journey to the Promised Land because He knew they were not yet ready to go in.

There had to be time for their training, and they had to go through some very trying situations.