The Wanting Nothing Blog
Reflections on God’s Love and Sovereignty
The Beautiful, Mysterious Eternality of God’s Love and Power
The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Exodus 34:5–7, ESVGod when we understand that He can do anything.
The Painful, Rebellious Limitations of Human Fear and Pride
“See, what we call God depends upon our tribe, Clark Jo, ’cause God is tribal. God takes sides. No man in the sky intervened when I was a boy to deliver me from Daddy’s fist and abominations. I figured out way back if God is all-powerful, He cannot be all good. And if He is all good, then He cannot be all-powerful.”
Lex Luthor, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)God when we understand Him with the parameters of the human condition.
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