God is Sufficient

The problem:

What are we to do with the sense that our satisfaction in life can feel so fleeting and insufficient?

• Key Passage 1: Romans 1:20-25
• Key Passage Idea: The fruit of disordered worship is dysfunction.
• When we treat the true, good, and beautiful finite things in God’s creation as sufficient for satisfying our infinite longings, they become idols.
• The ache we experience for the Infinite is the image of God within our human nature, longing for union to its source and home in God.

The solution:

God is inviting us to "partake in the divine nature."

• Key Passage 2: 2 Peter 1:3-4

Addressing misconceptions about the solution:

• Knowing a propositional truth about God isn’t the same kind of knowing as participating with God. (See James 2:19)
• We are finite, and God is infinite. Satisfaction in God is an infinite journey.

Our hope in Christ:

Key Passage: 2 Corinthians 3:17-18

Recommended reading:

On the Incarnation, Athanasius (4th Century)