Sunday, December 10

GOD


 

GOD 

          What is your concept of God?  I am afraid most of us picture God according to our finite image of Him.  What ever such picture we may have, is not comparable to what He really is.  Eric Sauer had as good a concept as is humanly possible I suppose.  In his book FROM ETERNITY TO ETERNUITY he wrote the following on page 13:  "While as yet no star traversed its course, no sun threw its flood of light and energy through space, no systems of stars and suns swept through infinity in mighty curves and uniform relations, there God was;  He the eternal without beginning, He who is above the whole course of time, He who in harmony beyond explanation possesses unity and life, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the basis of eternity, the Living One, the only God" 

          Can we get that?  Think of it.  When there was not one man or woman, when there was no earth or any other planet, when there was no sun nor moon nor star, and when there was not even space,  When there was nothing but eternity, God inhabited eternity. 

          Isaiah called Him the high and lofty One.  He is the Holy Father.  No man, Pope included, should be called the Holy Father.  That is a Name for God.  He is the Holy Spirit Who proceeds from the Father and the Son.  He is the Holy Son in Whom the fullness of the godhead dwells bodily Col. 2:9. 

               God is at home in Heaven.  It is His own creation; yet it cannot contain Him.  In our text He says, “I dwell in the high and holy place,”  

               God also is at home here own earth with His people.  He made the earth also.  He humbled Himself to live on earth with His creatures.  In our text He also says, “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. 
 
          What is the divine purpose of this Eternal Holy One?  It is to give life to the penitent one.  In John 10:10 He said He came to give life and to give it more abundantly.  His purpose is to make glad the heart of the penitent.  This is seen in the abundant life He gives. 

          I hope these feeble thoughts will bring to your remembrance the greatness and the glory of our Sovereign God.

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