I will be a better servant of God if I understand what my relationship to Him is. He is my Maker, my Lord, my Deliverer; but He is also my opposite. He is my opposite just as male and female are opposite, except of course on a much higher and grander scale. For my finiteness there is His infiniteness; for my weakness there is His omnipotence; for my limited eyesight there is His omniscience; for my confinement to a body there is His omnipresence. Even if man had not sinned, God would still be his opposite. Now, add the dimension of sin, and God becomes all the more opposite—for man’s sin there are His mercy and forgiveness.
The greatest insult I can offer God is to try to be equal with Him, as Satan did when he sinned, and as Adam and Eve did when they sinned: “Ye shall be as gods” (Genesis 3:5, KJV, italics added). On the other hand, I please God the most when I am truly human—truly the opposite of Him, as He intended me to be. The great sin of the human race is to eliminate the oppositeness between man and God. As a Christian, I am guilty of that sin whenever I usurp God’s rule in my life and put myself in His place. Only one Person ever lived who rightfully claimed equality with God and who therefore could say, “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30, KJV).
I must truly let God be God and me be me, which means a creature dependence upon Him at all times. When I am weak or hurt or sorrowful or sinful, I must come to Him for His opposites: strength, healing, joy, and mercy. I was made for Him, and He is a happy God when He ministers to my needs. “The Lord Himself is God; … we are His people and the sheep of His pasture” (Psalm 100:3).
“May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, ‘That Thou mightest be justified in Thy words, and mightest prevail when Thou art judged’” (Romans 3:4).
Daily with the King 