AWESOME GOD - LAW AND ORDERIf you have been reading my posts on Awesome God, you will have seen that He is loving, kind, and compassionate. He protects and provides for us. He shelters and cares for us in every aspect of our lives.
Besides all of this He is the Creator of the universe, and all that it contains - you only have to look around you to see what that means.
He is Omnipotent, which means that He is all powerful. Nothing and no one is more powerful than He.
"He stops, He stands still for a moment, gazing at the earth, then He stuns the nations, scattering the everlasting mountains and levelling the hills. His awesome power is just the same as always." Habakuk 3 : 2-6
He is Omnicient. He knows everything. There is nothing that He does not know. He even knows how many hairs you have growing on your head.
He is Omnipresent. He is everywhere. Nothing and no one can hide from Him.
He is trustworthy and keeps His promises.
He gives you the very air that you breathe and the ability to breathe it.
Many pages of His attributes can be filled that make Him God, for He is God. He is an Eternal, Magnificent Being. He is so great that no one is fully able to describe Him, or comprehend how truly great He is.
And as God, the Creator of the universe He is the One Who makes the laws and the rules. When you create something, it belongs to you. You made it and so you can do with it what you will.
For example if you were a painter and painted a picture you could sell it, give it away, destroy it, hide it in a cupboard or put it in a museum the choice is yours.
Yet daily you come across people who have no respect for the awesome God that He is. They have the audacity to criticize, condemn, belittle, blaspheme and blame Him for everything they consider wrong in their lives. They think they have the right to question His authority.
Thousands of years before they were even born, God had already given them answers in his Holy Book, the Bible.
To those who would question Him, God answers,
"I form the light and make the dark, I send good times and bad. I, Jehovah, am the One Who does these things. Woe to the man who fights with his Creator. Does the pot argue with its maker? Does the clay dispute with the one who forms it, saying, 'stop, you are doing it wrong' or the pot exclaim, 'how clumsy can you be.? '
Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel says, "What right have you to question what I do? Who are you to command Me concerning the works of My hands? I have made the earth and created man upon it. With My hands I have stretched forth the heavens and commanded the vast myriads of stars. I have raised up Cyrus to perform My righteous purpose and I will direct his paths."
Isaiah 45 : 7, 9, 11, + 13
God did not give us laws and commands to harm us, rather He gave them to us so that we could live peaceably with one another.
We all know that ungovernable homes, towns, cities, states and countries result in chaos. Laws and rules are needed to keep unruly mobs under control. We just have to look at history to see that if there were no rules what a mess that becomes.
We are already living in a pretty chaotic world because people are becoming more and more ungovernable.
If everyone on this planet only kept the one great commandment that God has given us
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbour as yourself." Luke 10:27
there would never have been a war, or a murder, or a theft, or a lie, or any of the other multitudes of sins.
But God in His mercy, knowing our weaknesses and that we could not do this provided us with the answer to our dilemma He sent His beloved Son the Lord Jesus Christ as a sacrifice to set us free from our sins.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
John 3:16
Next week we will discuss God's Plan of Salvation.
next post 27th September
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