Who God is?

Isaiah 44:24-25:

"This is what the Lord says -
your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb:

I am the Lord,
who has made all things,
who alone stretched out the heavens,
who spread out the earth by myself,

who foils the signs of false prophets
and makes fools of diviners,
who overthrows the learning of the wise
and turns it into nonsense,"

Paraphrasing from a TED video that I just watched not too long ago with Gary, Alain de Botton on his talk about "A kinder, gentler philosophy of success", he mentioned that we're living in times where we start worshiping ourselves as men as comparing to how it was back in the olden days where people would worship a god, force or the universe for the matter.

I sure can agree to that statement to a certain extent - after experiencing and considering the events that took place recently. While they structure and express themselves in a seemingly "intellectual" manner, God clearly says "who overthrows the learning of the wise and turns it into nonsense,". I'm in no position claiming that I'm a "wise" person per se, but only would to draw back to the basis of:

Proverbs 9:10 - "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding."

I always seek to understand first and place whatever that person mentions before the Word of God. Because at the end of the day, I don't intend to proclaim that whatever I say is "the way of life" but rather what Jesus proclaims in His very own divine words - do we as His followers carefully guard the very cornerstone of our hearts?

It always hit upon me of how hastily they would set up a wall of saying that - "I'm sure God will not judge me, seeing that I've done nothing wrong in a .. BIG way, like murder or theft." or "There are so many gods, if I say I believe in one god, then surely it cannot mean that the other gods are wrong?". No doubt, if it's anyone who's talking about "putting yourself in a box", they've inevitably put God "in a box". To put things into perspective, if there's any offense "bigger" than murder or theft, the ultimatum would be placing oneself above God Himself below his/her own prideful existence.

How can a person claims that he/she know who God is when that person hardly spends time finding out who He is?

Nonetheless, a careful reminder to ourselves as well, to constantly check to see if we allow our own "achievements" and "knowledge" to puff up our hearts and believe that we have every right to condemn another. Do the way we live our lives present God as a God of love? (1 John 4:8)

Because certainly, at the end of the day, be it debates, heated quarrels or just a mere discussion, it still boils down to preaching His love through deeds. I would like to encourage all brothers and sisters in Christ to obey fervently in love and carrying of the Cross daily so that in hope of a wretched world, His light may shine through us.

1 John 3:18
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

- daryl 's u n d a e' heng

Images taken from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MtSE4rglxbY
http://www.canonglenn.com/category/gospel/
http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/dr-ray-pritchard/cornerstone.html