“Show Me Your Glory” by Steve Lawson
The Bible clearly teaches that God created man in His own image. Sadly, due the fall into sin, humanity now tries to make God into its image. Many try to domesticate God, make Him user-friendly, or simply pick and choose what aspects of His character they will allow Him to actually possess and demonstrate. This shows the folly of man’s rebellion against God. What authority does the created one have to redefine the Creator? Clearly, he has none, but that does not mean he will not do so and even will believe the false narrative he has dreamed up.
Steve Lawson shows us that making God into a human ideal conflicts with who God truly is. He states, “God is spirit, without any component parts. He is therefore indivisible. He cannot be divided into segments in any way. This is known as the simplicity of God. There is not one part of God that is holy, while another is love, and yet another part of God is wrath…All these attributes are indivisibly intertwined as the whole of one divine nature.”
Chapter two of the Westminster Confession of Faith teaches, “In the unity of the Godhead there be three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity…” Lawson says it follows that “God exists as one unified whole without any divisions in His being. There is not a part of God that is isolated from the rest of Him. Each of His attributes encompasses the whole of His divine being.” It further must be seen that “no attribute is restricted to one member of the Godhead, but not found in the other two persons (of the Trinity). Each attribute is equally complete in each divine person…The Father, son, and Spirit are equally holy, equally omnipotent, equally loving, and coequal in each of Their divine attributes.”
Steve quotes 1 John 1:5 “God is light, and in Him there is no darkness.” He then makes a wonderful point to drive home the beauty of God’s simplicity. “There is not one part of God that is light, but another part that is dark. It is not as if His love is light, but His wrath is dark. Unlike the moon, God has no dark side. The entirety of God’s being is radiant light without any darkness.” The God of the Bible remains glorious. Pastor Gillikin