Remember who God IS
Christians today tend to have a tendency to forget who God is. One can see this just by looking at their attitudes and actions, from referring to God as the “Big Man Upstairs”, to viewing Him as the friendly, harmless old guy. Some Christians even take the Name of God in vain and not even see that what they’re doing is wrong. This kind of an attitude, besides being wrong and sinful, also belittles God. Why would we, as believers, want to belittle the very God that we worship?
God made the entire universe and everything in it (Genesis 1:1). He made man from the dust of the Earth (Genesis 2:7). Just in those two verses we can see the amount of power that God has. Not only does the Bible give many more examples of His power, God Himself describes His power and rebukes Job for trying to put himself on equal footing with God (Job 40-42). Even Jesus, in the New Testament, shows deference to Him. Let’s look at it like this, if Jesus Himself shows reverence and the highest amount of respect to God, who in the world are we to reduce Him to nothing more than “the big guy upstairs”? God’s name is sacred too, to use it as nothing more than an interjection or as part of an acronym online is not just disrespectful and belittling, but it’s sinful as well.
Our culture loves to make fun of God, and portray wildly inaccurate ideas about who He is. These ideas have a tendency to trickle into churches and then gradually get accepted by believers. We’re the ones who worship Him, so shouldn’t we be the ones who know who He is? We need to be very careful to show God the worship, reverence, and respect that He not only deserves, but commands as well.
