God’s love is greater than my understanding. Why he loves me is unbelievable. Before the world began, he loved me with an eternal, undying love.
Who am I that he should favor me?
Who am I that he sees me and cares for me with unmerited affection?
I am nothing before the Creator before the Lord of life, and yet he could condescending to think of me.
I love him because he first loved me.
Isaiah 43 verse 4
Since you were precious in my sight… I have loved you.
Names are labels to identify individuals. We are given a name before or after birth as a personal tag. As names can point a person out among a crowd, they can also be a symbol of that person’s character; they are an extension of a familial tradition.
With Jehovah or God, this is different. His names speak to his power and his glory. It can prove our faith and strength in various situations.
For example:
We call him, Jehovah Rapha, God our healer.
Going through physical sickness with nowhere to turn or trusting in him, we can say with assurance he will heal me because he says to ask anything in the name of his son, and he will do it.
We have some financial hardship? We can ask him to heal our finances and wait, believing because he is Jehovah Rapha.
In the book of Exodus 15 verse 26
, it says, I am the Lord your God who heals you.
Psalm 103 says he heals all my diseases.
Psalm 30 says he cried to God, and he healed him.
He is a stronghold in the day of trouble.
These are only a few words of comfort and acknowledgment concerning his name as the healer.
Can you say the same as Jehovah Rapha, my healer?
In any relationship, the name of the other person is very important, too.
How we call that person is an indicator of how we feel about that person.
Is there anger or affection. Is there familiarity and intimacy.
When we think of a relationship with God, what do we call him?
God.
Father
Almighty.
Are we close enough to him to call him Abba Father?
Abba is a form of little children addressing their father as Papa or Daddy.
It is not something that most will favor because of His position as Creator.
It shows a closeness that goes deeper nearer than anything ever can.
It is a position of love and security.
As a christian, a close relationship with God is something I need to strive towards by praying and reading the Bible daily.
As this year comes closer to an end and a new year begins to rise on the horizon, we all begin to make resolutions to do things better in the new year. We look forward to a fresh start.
I am here to say why wait for that new year.
Now is the accepted time.
We have no way of knowing what will happen tomorrow, let alone in a new year we have only today.
We have now and we need to live in the present.
My advice is to start now and get things right with God. It does not have to take hours on end praying and reading but just start small.
Read a verse one day and think about it. How does it work into your life.
Repeat it over in your head throughout the day. This will cause you to memorize it.
Write it down. This, too , helps to secure it into your memory banks. When the time comes, you can recall it without difficulty.
Where do you start?
A wise man once told me to start in the gospel of John.
Or if you want to see the first works of God, start with the book of Genesis.
And like the John one verse one,we are again back at the beginning.
Life comes in a full circle.
Morning, by morning, he awakes up my ear so I can hear his instructions. ( adapted from Isaiah 50 verse 4)
I serve God Almighty. The true and living God. Who loved the world with a great love that he sent his only begotten son.
He gave his only son.
Jesus is the son of his love.
He is the greatest gift of all.
My relationship with God began before I was born. He knew me. I was not an afterthought. None of us are afterthought in God’s mind.
Going back to the blog entry before.
God was not alone in the beginning. He took counsel and said, “Let us make man.”
In the Old Testament book of Genesis chapter 1 verse 26, Jehovah is called Elohim, meaning God. There is more it in the Hebrew language wbut simply put here, it is a plural noun followed by a plural verb.
Some say he took counsel with his angels.
Really???
Let me get this straight:
The Creator needed to tell his other creatures who were his ministers doing his will, what he planned as if asking permission?
If you believe that, then you bring God down to your level.
He is the almighty
The One who formed the world’s at his our will. Who planted the stars in the heavens, who made all creatures great and small. At his will, everything subsist.
Again, think about who we serve.
God is introduced to the world for the first time in the book of Genesis.
He was introduced in Genesis because the world did not exist.
Genesis means in the Greek language “origin” or beginning.
God is larger than life itself because he gives life.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. ( Genesis chapter one verse one)
The first characteristic of God is that he is the creator.
He called the things that did not exist into existence. ( Romans 4 verse 17)
He formed the earth from nothing.
The argument in science is that the world was formed by a big bang, the Big Bang Theory.
Then there is the Evolutuon of Life by natural causes.
These theories can be refuted. Needless to say, if others do not believe in God as the Creator of the Universe, it does not make it untrue or unreal.
Who is God?
He is the creator.
Let’s keep things simple and share this text with a friend.
Bad Things Happen to Good People
Where is God?
Let’s start from the beginning, but not in Genesis of the Bible.
The first challenge is to ask who God is to you personally.
As a child, I was taught right and wrong. My parents were God-fearing and very loving, wanting the best for me and my sisters.
From the beginning, I’ve seen God as the judge first. If I do something wrong that will displease God, then I will be punished.
This all kept me in line, but as time moved on and I grew older, I learned he is a God of love and compassion.
However, as the saying goes, bad things happen to good people.
Life throws cruel curves, and sometimes, it is hard to understand the loss of a loved one, the financial ruin, the loss of employment, poor health, and so many other disappointments.
We cry out to God, and nothing happens. Every morning, we wake up, and everything remains the same.
God does not tempt us.
God can not be tempted with evil, neither does he tempt any man. (James 1 verse 13)
God is holy and can not look at sin. Therefore, nothing good will he hold back from you. (Psalm 84 verse 11)
So are our problems made by our own hands?
Sometimes, we sow our own seeds and fall into our own traps, but other times, bad things do happen.
Then the question on our lips is, where is God?
To answer that question, we need to do a deep drive on who God is and look at his character.
What are the qualities distinctive to him and to him alone?
We need to look at his behavior, his actions, and his reactions and to look at what he says.
Then, we will begin to understand a little about God.
How do you see God personally.
Is he far away, or is he close by?
Let’s be honest and think about this answer as a child of God.
Let’s look at God from the beginning…
For The Moment#124
Who is God?
When we think about God, what do we know?
We know his works, all the things he does and have done.
We think about his character.
We think about where he is now?
Sure, this is all fine, but who is God to me personally?
How do I know him?
Do I trust him?
Do I love him in all sincerity, or is it for what I can get?
These are questions that might challenge us all as children of God.
Our challenge for the rest of the year is to look to God and establish a deep relationship with him.
The faithfulness of God is a curious thing. We will never understand it. We will never wear it out.
He remains faithful while we fall away; such is his love towards us. We have nothing to fear because there is nothing that can separate us from his love.
If we abide not, yet he remains faithful; he can not deny himself.
2 Timothy 2 verse 13.
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