Why study the doctrine of God? So that we can fall to our faces and together with the heavenly assembly, behold the Lion who is the Lamb, and proclaim "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and glory and honor and blessing!" God is not a buddy. We don't saunter up and slap him on the back, as if such casualness were a sign of intimacy. We bow to worship him as the triune God--the Father who elected us, the Son who has died in our place and the Spirit who grants repentance and faith and seals us for the Son's return.
God is not like you or me. He is unimaginably better. He is mightier, fiercer, more loving more majestic. He is holy, holy, holy It is essential to get the doctrine of God right before moving on. Either God will be the center of one's doctrinal solar system, or something else will. What we believe about God determines what we believe about everything.
- from "God: Not like you" by Jonathan Leeman in Don't Call It a Comeback, Kevin DeYoung, ed.
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