Challenge Accepted

Challenge Accepted... In the class that prompted this blog, we had the opportunity this past week to draw a topic from the "Box of Doom" (insert evil laughter). Containing suggestions from our classmates and professor, we were challenged to write from a different platform than our usual. I reached into the box and pulled out a note instructing me to take an obscure quote from my favorite movie and include it in a post. "Too easy, maybe even typical," I thought. When everyone had chosen, a few remained and I offered to trade. Seemed harmless enough until I read what my hand had pulled out: Submit a seminary paper or part of a paper as poetry or in poetic prose. Those who know me know I like rap and spoken word, which I consider to be forms of poetry, but traditional poetry with rhymes, form based on syllable number, and flowery language is not my style. Why'd I choose today to be cocky and untouchable?

That brings us to today, when I looked through some of my papers and found the beginning of my credo paper addressing "Who is God?" The following is my work, a little intellect mixed with a little poetic rhythm. It by no means captures completely who God is, so feel free to add your thoughts.

Who is God?

Proclaimed throughout scripture, his character, nature, and glory.

Creator of the heavens and earth,

transcendent and eternal.

His existence as Creator before all, man and woman his creation, made in his image and likeness.

Not to rule ourselves, but commanded to live according to his mandates, we submit.

He who calls himself "I AM WHO I AM", and who is known as "The Lord our God, the Lord is one."

So we know sovereignty belongs to the One and Only.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

Jesus Christ, fully God and yet fully man revealing in himself the truths of scripture for all of history.

The embodiment of covenant redemption fully wrapped in one sent by God.

Who is God, but the Triune: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Conceptualized but not comprehended, labeled but not limited.

Creator of all things for his own glory.

Redeemer from beginning to end, unchangeable in his plan.

Just, loving, and righteous.

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