Then getting on that airplane shouldn’t be the cause for so much worry and stress in my life. I believe God is who He says He is, but do I trust Him completely? I’m working through the difference between faith and trust. God has used None Like Him (and many other scriptures and tools) to open my eyes to see I’ve been putting limits on Him.
Thank you!Īs we prepare to board an airplane later this month for a mission trip to Panama, I’ve been asking God to help me overcome my anxiety of flying. Any purchase you may make helps to cover the costs of this site. When the opportunity came up recently to review Jen Wilkin’s book, None Like Him – 10 Ways God is Different From Us (and that’s a good thing), I eagerly said “yes!” *Please note this post contains affiliate links. Our limited minds struggle to grasp the unlimitedness of God. If we’re going to be honest, I think a lot of us (myself included) put God in a box. If true wisdom starts with the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves, then here is a book full of wisdom.Do you really, truly see Him as all-knowing?Ĭan you wrap your brain around his omnipresence? Jen’s exploration of God’s attributes and her reminder of all the ways I’m not God and don’t have to be God ministered to me as a wife, as a mother, and as a Christian. “This wonderful book is big on truth and big on God, which means it is very good for my soul. Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Author Radio Host, Revive Our Hearts As we do, our hearts will be filled with wonder and awe that such a God should stoop to save and love us." Jen calls us to lift our eyes upward, to earnestly contemplate His attributes, and to humbly acknowledge our own limits. "In an upside-down world that has humanized God and deified man, Jen Wilkin brings us the best news imaginable: our God is infinitely greater, more powerful, more majestic, and more wonderful than we can possibly fathom. But at the root of every sin is our rebellious desire to possess attributes that belong to God alone.Ĭalling us to embrace our limits as a means of glorifying God's limitless power, Jen Wilkin invites us to celebrate the freedom that comes when we rest in letting God be God.ġ76 pages View an excerpt here. Our limitations are by design - we were never meant to be God.
God is self-existent, self-sufficient, eternal, immutable, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, sovereign, infinite and incomprehensible.
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