“Know ye that the Lord He is God: it is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.”
I imagine that most of you reading this will know all what I will write about God. It doesn’t hurt to be reminded occasionally about what a great and wonderful God we have. Psalm 100:3 is one of the best descriptions of God in the Bible. Read this article and then rejoice in and praise our Lord. We need to know that God is God. This seems to be redundancy, but all redundancies are not bad. We need to know that He is not “the man upstairs.” He is the God of the universe, and is larger than His universe. The greatness of God is inexpressible. He is so great that His size cannot be measured, just as the universe is immeasurable. He is transcendent, meaning that He rises above all else. There is nothing anywhere greater than God. God is worthy of awe. We should be in awe of His holiness. We should be in awe of His power. He is all-powerful. There is nothing that God cannot do, though there is plenty that He does not do. We should be in awe of His knowledge. There is nothing that God does not know. He knows our every action and every thought. He knows what is going on all over the world at the time it is happening. He knows everything from beginning to end. Nothing surprises God. He is worthy of worship. He is worthy of worship because of His greatness, power and knowledge. He is worthy of worship because He is revealed to us through Jesus Christ. Hebrews 1:1 tells us that “in these last days, He has revealed Himself through His Son.” Jesus is the supreme example of God’s love for us, for He was sent to bring salvation to lost mankind. We need to know that God is our creator: “It is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves.” We are not cosmic accidents. It takes more faith to believe that human beings just “happened,” than to believe the God created us. The intricacies of the human body show forth the creation of God. He created us in His image. We are tied to Him; we need Him. We are incomplete without God. Augustine wrote: “O Lord, you have made us for yourself and we are restless until we find our rest in you.” People fight against God because they want to live independent of Him. They do not want to think that there is a Being that can make rules that we have to abide by. No matter how people might dream of independence from God, they are not independent of Him. That image of His in us will not be denied. I’m not saying that all are saved because of the innate image of God. I am saying that the people who find the greatest satisfaction and those who will enjoy eternity are those who accept the One who came In His exact image – Jesus Christ. We need to know that we can be His: “We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.” This was written in reference to the Jews, but it has a wider meaning that is given in the New Testament. We can know that we belong to God in a saving relationship by acceptance of Jesus Christ by faith. The wonderful truth is that we do not have to “try to be saved,” as many tell me. We can know that we belong to Him by faith in Jesus Christ. I pity the married man who when asked if he was married, answered in the presence of his wife, “I’m trying to be.” He had better know it! If we belong to Jesus we know it. Bro. Joe
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