The Perfecting Church

The millennial generation has grown weary of organized religion but their zeal for God can be ignited if they have a proper view of Jesus.

God is good. This simple statement is going to take us weeks to unpack and even longer to work into the depths of our soul. On the surface, every follower of Jesus believes God is good. But if we pull back the curtain, there are times and sometimes extended periods of time, when we struggle to see and embrace God’s goodness. But temporary struggles do not change the unwavering, eternal truth — God is good and God defines good.

As of the1st quarter of 2018, Facebook had 2.19 billion active users. YouTube just reported 1 billion, and Instagram says it has 800 million active users. That’s nearly 4 billion people active on social media, as a regular part of their daily lives! What is it that drives us to publish our lives for the world to view? We all have an insatiable desire to be known. We all have an insatiable desire to be loved. We were designed by the God who knows all, for the God who knows all.

Two questions are at the heart of what it means to be human: Who are you Lord? Who am I? While there’s arguably more than one answer to these questions, none is more fundamentally true than — God is love and we are loved. Sadly, it’s possible to be so shaped and affected by the “love of man” that it keeps us from ever truly knowing and experiencing the love of God. God is love and His love is unlike any other “love” in all of creation. God’s love is an all-knowing love. God’s love is an all-consuming love. God’s love is a fully committed love.

There are two questions that everyone on the face of this planet has asked and continues to ask at different times and in different ways, throughout the course of life. “Who are you God?” and “Who am I?” In fact, these questions are at the heart of what it means to be human. We fully become who we are as we come to know who God is. We are made in His image and we bear His likeness.