{"id":454,"date":"2014-03-12T09:31:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T09:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/safeplacewithruthgraham\/?p=454"},"modified":"2014-03-12T09:32:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T09:32:17","slug":"a-worship-worthy-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/safeplacewithruthgraham\/2014\/03\/a-worship-worthy-god.html","title":{"rendered":"A Worship-worthy God"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am reading a marvelous book – it is slow going because it is so rich and needs my full attention: The Divine Conspiracy<\/em>\u00a0by Dallas Willard (HarperSanFrancisco, 1998).<\/p>\n

In it he quotes Adam Clarke’s statement about God: “the eternal, independent, and self-existent Being; the Being whose purposes and actions spring from himself, without foreign motive or influence; he who is absolute in dominion; the most pure, the most simple, the most spiritual of all essences; infinitely perfect; and eternally self-sufficient, needing nothing that he has made; illimitable in his immensity, inconceivable in his mode of existence, and indescribable in his essence; known fully only by himself, because an infinite mind can only be fully comprehended by itself. In a word, a Being, who from his infinite wisdom, cannot err or be deceived, and from his infinite goodness, can do nothing but what is eternally just, and right, and kind.”<\/p>\n

And that Being loves you and me; wants a personal, intimate relationship with us so much so that He sent his Son to die for us so that we might enter into such a wonderful, daily relationship with him.<\/p>\n

Take a moment today to worship him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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