Primary to understanding this series of three Notion Devotions is the understanding no human being can define God.  We can only in our limited vocabulary and experience “name” aspects of and who God is.

Impartial, as used in these three articles, means unbiased, open-minded, and balanced.  In the first of these three, we looked at God as the impartial lover, loving everyone.  The second of this series was about God as the impartial law-giver, condemning everyone because all are less than holy.

In the world we live in, impartial loving and impartial law-giving do not mix.  It is quite beyond human understanding or experience according to what I have observed.  It is beyond our comprehension that unbiased love and intolerant holiness can co-exist. 

Yet these aspects exist in harmony in the incomparable, perfect, and powerfully loving being we call God.  Impartial unprejudiced love and impartial just commandment (law) are visibly united in Jesus Christ.      

God in Jesus Christ, left godhood behind, came to life in human flesh, lived perfection and holy, died the horrible death due the unholy to comply with the punishment demand of the law, and wholly rose to the eternal life.

I do not know how I know God is God and I am not, but I do.  Faith is a wonderful gift.  Faith makes it possible to know this truth and to grasp this little bit of who God is as Love and Law.  Faith, gift of God, makes acknowledgment  and declaration possible of this mystery in the Good News of Jesus Christ.

1.) What do you know of God?
2.) Who do you know that lives both Love and Law?
3.) Where do you see the battles between unbiased love and intolerant holiness in the world today?
4.) When have you experienced both God as Love and Law?
5.) Are you content not to define God?  Why or why not?