Book Review: Not God Enough by J.D. Greear

Most Christians in the U.S. have an image that God is a great big grandpa that lives in the sky. Grandfathers are normally pictured as a nice old man who his grandkids come to who will not discipline them if they misbehave. Many American Christians think God is this way too. He is safe, He is gentle, and He won't discipline. Is that how God is portrayed in the Bible?

J.D. Greear helps us grasp what the Bible says about God and who He truly is, in his latest book, Not God Enough. What Greear is attempting to communicate in this book is that God is bigger than our words can say. God is bigger than our thoughts can think of. God is greater than anything in this world.

Greear writes that God is bigger than any doubt we have. God is holy meaning He is set apart from this world and pure. God is a God of wrath. Many don't like that idea. We think God is a God of love, which He is. God loves the world that He gave His only Son to atone for our sins. God is also a God wrath meaning that sin must be punished. That is why He sent Jesus to take our punishment.

God is a God who we long for because He is good and loves us, but at the same time He is a God is full of wrath because of sin. We like this part of God and dismiss the parts we don't like about God which is basically what we do with the Bible. The Bible points us to a God who loves us and hates sin.

Greear reminds his readers that God is not about you. God is for you, but He is not about you. You don't get a personal Jesus who conforms to your standards. The Bible paints us a picture of a God who is bigger than our words can display or our thoughts can imagine.

Greear does a great job showing his readers that God is bigger than we think. It is sad that many Christians think that God is small when He really is not. Many lost people think the same way. I am delighted to recommend this book for anyone, who has doubts about God and have a small picture of Him.

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