The Spirituality and Invisibility of God

I am combining God’s spirituality with Gods invisibility for this discussion. God’s spirituality means God is spirit. Since God is spirit, He forbids any graven images or any carved or painted images that we can imagine. The images of our imagination would be idolatry.

You shall not make for your self any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; (Exodus 20: 4.)

This verse should make it clear that God is like nothing in all of creation. There is nothing created that looks like or feels like God in any way. We are created in His image, but God has no flesh. How do we share in Gods spirituality? If you are born again, God has given you a spirit in which you can worship Him through Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit. We can know Him and experience Him in this way. For the rest of the discussion on God’s spirituality, I am going to ask you to refer back to the study of God’s Omnipresence, which is on the blog at godsoldman.blogspot.com.

Invisibility is the nature of spirit. God can manifest Himself so that He may be seen. Throughout the old testament, God reveals Himself As the angel of the Lord, and in bodily form for the benefit of those to who He is speaking. In some cases, few cases, He manifests His Glory so that it might be seen. Moses was hidden in the cleft of a rock, and God covered him with His hand so Moses could not see His face, to see God’s face would have meant death for Moses. In Isaiah 6, Isaiah sees God on His throne and believes he is going to die because he has seen the King, the Lord of glory. These are called theophanies when God appears in bodily form Like when He wrestled with Jacob or spoke with Abraham, and these manifestations are called Christophanies. Man cannot see God’s invisible self without some help from God.

How do we share invisibility with God? In a couple of ways, one way is we are created in God’s image. God created us with a soul which is invisible to the human eye, and we were spiritually alive before the fall. The most important way we share this attribute with God is through Christ our Lord and the Holy Spirit of God. The invisible Holy Spirit now indwells us if we are born again in Christ. As Christ was the living representation of God on earth, “Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’”? (John4:9), whoever sees us should see Christ in us. The world should get a taste of the invisible God through our lives, not because we are good, but because of Christ in us. We are indwelt by the invisible God not because we are that good, but instead because the invisible God decreed that we should live.

The next Attribute will be God’s knowledge or God’s omniscience.

I thank God every day for those who read this blog on Facebook or however they read it. I seek God’s blessing of salvation first for you, and wisdom and understanding for you and for me. I don’t write because I think I know more than you. I write in the hope that somehow, I am in service to the Lord in some small way. I desire to honor God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. So, if you think about it would you pray with me that this blog always honors God. Thank you.