Theology is Important

Theology, the study of God, is more important to me now than it was two months ago.

I am constantly telling people to find their identity in God rather than things or people. But here is the catch, how can someone find their identity in someone they don’t know?

All day long people can strive to press themselves to find their sole identity in God, but, quite frankly, if they are not studying who God is, their striving is an effort in futility. For their identity will be in the god of their own mind, their own conjured up fantasy of a god, not the God that created their mind who has revealed himself in Scripture.

Theology, the study of God, is a daily necessity. He is good and he is enough to satisfy all wants, and therefore he ought to be the believer’s first desire. He is irresistible.

But the problem is that we often relocate him to the position of bellboy when he is the source of life; we toss him a prayer rather than admitting he is the sole reason for existence and his glory is the last end of our lives.

All glory belongs to God and will return to God, this is true, yet I fear we will be left to wander as the Israelites in the wilderness simply because we do not know the God we ‘love’ and ‘serve’. Thus we ought to study and get to know this God who 1) made us, 2) redeemed us, 3) is redeeming us, and 4) will give us himself for all eternity.