By Kyle Cox, Future Leader for The Rock at the Loudoun Campus.

What is your view of God? Maybe the better question is: how do you treat God?

Is He the cosmic genie who grants wishes to those He deems worthy? Or do you try to wrap Him up into a convenient, containable package so that you can comprehend Him?

These descriptions of God are a far cry from the descriptions found in the Bible. Read Exodus 19 when God descends on Mt. Sinai and people are warned that just touching the very base of the mountain would kill them immediately. It leads you to realize God is untouchable to us. His thoughts, actions, and feelings are so far greater beyond anything we can even begin to dream up. His holiness so pure, there is nothing we could accomplish under heaven to regard us worthy to bow, kneel, or beg for even just a second in the Creator’s presence. Let alone stand there!

But here is where the grace of God so sweetly intervenes, and Christ’s death and resurrection continues to perform the impossible…Hebrews 4:16- Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

Unbelievable, the God of the universe actually desires us to enter his throne room! What a comfort knowing that God cares enough to allow us, as broken as we are to enter his holy presence and pour out our cares and troubles to him. And it’s all made possible by Christ’s perfect sacrifice on our behalf, bridging the gap between God the Father and us. All you have to do is take hold of that gift from Christ.

It’s even more than just approaching God with requests; our Creator wants us to dwell with Him. Hebrews 12:22 tells us that we have not come to Mt. Sinai (that place of great trembling and fear) but we have come to Mt. Zion which is the city of the living God!

When you gain a clearer picture of who God truly is, and who you are in comparison, you are lead to a place where all you can do is worship and serve the one and only king of kings.

So the question is how do you see God?

You have come to Jesus, the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people, and to the sprinkled blood, which graciously forgives instead of crying out for vengeance as the blood of Abel did. – Hebrews 12:24