Can you explain the world without God? Well you can, but you’ll end up at some point explaining idolatry, or the worship of self. It’s inevitable. And how do you explain God?

Exodus records the meeting of Moses with the burning bush – Moses wants to know who is speaking to him. God’s answer – I AM. The bush burns but is not consumed.

We’re consumers. We explain everything but putting it in a category – it’s a mineral, it’s biological, it’s manufactured… it’s a “fill in the blank”. We used human terms to explain the divine and it is inadequate. And in doing so we may make God less believable to many in our efforts.

Who is God? How do I explain him? That’s why The Bible records history as it does and God’s interaction with His creation. We walk in the garden with Him, we see Him rescue the children of Israel, we see Him discipline them and eventually call into the world by sending His Son Jesus who makes the blind to see and lame to walk, who calms the winds and the waves. We see Him heal the sick and raise the dead and how do we explain that in human terms.

The struggle to explain God in human terms is helped in the coming of The Messiah, the Son of God. As He walked, got hungry, was surprised, was sad, we get to see God in “human terms”. We get to see God in our context, we see Him address our issues our struggles. And in doing so He addresses our greatest need, forgiveness!

But to really understand God requires the thing which is most difficult, it would seem to many, to surrender to HIs grace and to follow His leading in our lives. Suddenly we begin to see that Jesus is most interested in forming us into His likeness and into better people. We become what we never thought we could – free from the strains of sin and selfishness. And this comes through prayer.

It’s interesting that Jesus referred to “His House” as a house of prayer. It was prayer that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them. It is prayer that God calls if we are to listen to His voice. We sometimes stumble into thinking that prayer is the place of exchange. That is we come with a request or requests and we promised to follow or obey or do some act of sacrifice. But that’s paganism. In paganism we bring something in exchange for a blessing.

Living forJesus is where we find blessing and peace.