God

Linda Rock
12 hours ago
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We begin by giving praise to our God, for He is Sovereign in all the earth. He is Ruler of heaven and of the earth and there is no power that can even stand near to His Omnipotence. Our God is LORD!

As we come together, wherever we are, and regardless of the time of day or night, we are all believers of the One Crucified and Risen Lord Jesus, who belong to the One True God. We give God thanks for fellowship, family and friends.

Once, in communion with a being-born convert, who was being changed by Jesus, as they sat conversing at a well, in one-on-one fellowship, Jesus taught her many truths. Among the life-changing truths He taught her was this fact about God. Jesus taught her that worship to God must always reflect God, and never us, human beings. God is Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John 4: 24. We must accept and believe that our God is a Spirit, a living Holy Spirit.

When we listen to and view the picture of God, so beautifully, lovingly and most intimately detailed about his God, our God, we cannot but fall, under the pure power of his words. These are all undeniable, proven and personal descriptions, coming from the wisest king who ever lived. Here are some of the descriptions King Solomon paints of who God is. His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. Song of Solomon 5: 15 – 16.

What does David say about God, the God whom he most deeply and passionately loves? His testimonies about God being a just, right and forgiving God, are endless. This is what he testifies about who God is. When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. Selah. I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD, and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah. Psalm 32: 3 – 5 NKJV

Having heard Son Jesus, wise Solomon and David, a man after God’s own heart, we listen to what God has made clear about Himself. We listen to God as He speaks to His servant Moses when God was writing His Laws for the second time. Remember, because of the ghastly sins of God’s people, Moses broke the commands which God had given to him. Now he is back on Mount Sinai, to receive a fresh set of the same commandments. And the LORD descended in a cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. And the LORD passed by before him and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. Exodus 34: 5 – 7

Who then is our God?

From Jesus, Son of God, we learn that God is Spirit and our worship of Him must be in Spirit and in truth. Do we know worship to our God, as in Spirit and truth?
From the wise one, the one to whom God gave wisdom, we are told how sweet God’s Words are and how altogether wonderful and lovely He is. Do we know our God as altogether lovely?
From psalmist David, we have sound, believable testimony that God is a forgiving God. When David confessed his sins before God, with a contrite heart, God forgave him. Do we know in God, all our sins forgiven?
From God Himself, we know that all who confess their sins will receive His forgiveness and all who remain in stubborn unrepentance will receive His judgment. Do we know the full, free pardon of a repentant life?

Who is our God? For the remainder of this week, we shall be focusing on a servant of God, who knew and loved God, but had to feel the constraining Hand of God in his life.