Being vs. doing

Hmm - now that Emily is using blogger - I guess I'll need to keep mine up . . .oh, the peer pressure.

It's interesting to look at my last few posts - because they are about something that has recently been brought back to life for us. Don has enrolled in an online college Bible class and he has been sharing with me how our view of God has been very ontologically based - meaning that we as a Western society who base our thinking on reason, thanks to Plato and his contemporaries, define God in terms of who he is - whereas, the Bible itself tends to define God by what He has done and is doing and will do in the future.

I wasn't so sure about this until I realized that God himself does this, too. "I am the God who brought you out of the land of slavery" and many other such references . . .

So what does this mean for me? Well, perhaps instead of just calling him an "awesome God" in my prayer time, it might behoove me to list a few of the reasons that I think so - because of his incredible creation, because of his redeeming behaviour towards us, because . . . oh, there are juust so many things he has done . . .

Sounds like a small matter but it has certainly confirmed my earlier posts . . .

blessings.
Martha