the capital God

The wonder of God's Incarnation - His becoming one of us as a human - is that It continues.

Forty days after Easter, Jesus ascended bodily, lifted up physically by The Father to resume His exalted place at His Right Hand in Glory, carrying that human name and frame - Yeshua - to which every knee should bow (Philippians 2:10).  Jesus is now higher than all the heavens in order to fill the whole universe with Himself (Ephesians 4:10).  

He, with the Father and The Spirit, is the Capital God. He is the most important of all, supreme above all, most excellent for all who will bow to Him.

Though this exalted God gives us both license and invitation to speak of Him in anthropomorphic terms found in His Word, reflecting our being created in His Image, nonetheless, His Nature, including His Humanity, is beyond our own in our fallen state.  Therefore, it's become my custom to capitalize every reference to God's Nature that is parallel with references to our nature.

For example, God's Word describes Him as "he", and yet we read that we are created male and female in His Image (Genesis 1:27).  Capitalizing the "He" for God makes it clear that God's "He-ness" is beyond our natural conception of he, even though He became a he in becoming human.  The same is true of God's Hand, Will, Mind, Heart, Strength, Power, and the like.  God's Word describes what God is like, but the reality is beyond. If we conceive of God as just like us, we are remaking Him in our image, rather than He remaking us in His Image.

Capitalizing Him and His Attributes and Actions found in His Word, written with our hands, spoken with our lips, and conceived in our minds, can remind us that He is way more than us, yet still one of us.  This can assist us as we pray and act in that Name which is above every name (Philippians 2:9), The Name of our Capital God.