Revelation 1:9-20
I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,” and, “What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength. And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this. The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches.
I was surprised to find John falling down as a dead man in the presence of the Lord! John was supposed to be the disciple whom the Lord loved, who leaned on Jesus’ bosom as would an intimate friend to ask Jesus who His betrayer would be. But when John saw Jesus in His Glory, he became as a dead man!
We have no idea about the glory of Jesus Christ. We see Him as the man who suffered and died and rose again- a man of sorrows. Jesus, with His glory veiled.
But, the glory He had when He was with the Father (Jesus prays in John 17:5 “And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.”), before He became a man, was restored to Him after He rose again from the dead, defeating death and satan and saving us from the power of death.
And a glimpse of His Glory would make us as a dead man. May we worship Him.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Awe and fear of the Lord.
….What are the things we do or do not do because the Lord despises those things?
In different schools of thought, different things are permissible. That itself speaks for the man made holiness of those teachings.
But the God who made the Universe and every person, animal and thing-seen or unseen- declares Himself to be Holy and who can defy Him? He is Holy. He says anger(without a cause) in the heart is equal to murder. He sure has high standards of Holiness. He demands mercy and justice and not offering. He sure is above all other man made holy gods and schools of thoughts. He defines lusting a woman with the eye as adultery. He sure has unbeatable standards. He defends the fatherless and the widow and the oppressed. He is holy and there is none to compare with Him.
And the very fact that man-defined holiness(be it in moral science, religion or theology) is not holy at all but filthy dung is evident when compared with the “real” God’s holiness.
It is always to our advantage to ask what the God of the Universe wants before doing something.. Because like any rule in the U.S, it is best to be followed and guaranteed to be flawless. Other opinions seem to me like rules in our own home country-which can be twisted, bribed, compromised and even neglected.
So, what is the requirement of the Lord ?
The requirement of the Lord is to live with a clean heart and that requires much more than we are capable of, so we must allow God to help us. If we strive to love the Lord our God with all our heart and all our soul and with all our mind- striving to know Him, His heart, His commandments/ life-giving rules (no fines, no guilt, no accusation, no hell) God Himself will help us because He said, He who seeks will find, and we will find the work of the Maker of our heart continued …to cleanse and beautify like His Own.
And the more we know the Lord, we will see how awe-filling He is and how unworthy of His Love we are.
1 Samuel 24 : 8 onwards(to 21).
When David (before becoming king) was escaping from the then king Saul, he and his supporters hid in a cave. Saul was God’s chosen king but he had failed God and pride had led him to disobey God. God had chosen David to succeed Saul as king and Saul was after David’s life.
In the cave…
“..where there was a cave; and Saul went in to attend to his needs. (David and his men were staying in the recesses of the cave.)” (1 Samuel 24:3)
“Then the men of David said to him, “This is the day of which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do to him as it seems good to you.’” (1 Samuel 24:4)
The men who “supported” David twisted God’s promise to David to favor their will, but this is what the man whose heart was after God did.
‘And David arose and secretly cut off a corner of Saul’s robe. Now it happened afterward that David’s heart troubled him because he had cut Saul’s robe. ’ (1 Samuel 24:4,5)
David did NOT obey the voices of his friends even though they were the ones who supported him, who were in his favor and in favor of securing his life. Instead, when David’s conscience troubled him, he refused to do as they said. David feared God than man and did not act against his conscience.
“And he said to his men, “The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my master, the LORD’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.” So David restrained his servants with these words, and did not allow them to rise against Saul.” (2 Samuel 24:6-7)
David himself knew that Saul, God’s anointed king had failed God and that God had made Samuel (prophet) anoint David as king. But David did not assume God’s will and act against God’s will. For the fear of the Lord, he did not act against his conscience (something we kill and bury in our life).
After Saul gets up from the cave and goes, David follows afterward and tells Saul:
““My lord the king! …….Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Indeed David seeks your harm’? Look, this day your eyes have seen that the LORD delivered you today into my hand in the cave, and someone urged me to kill you. But my eye spared you, and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD’s anointed.’ Moreover, my father, see! Yes, see the corner of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the corner of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you. Yet you hunt my life to take it. Let the LORD judge between you and me, and let the LORD avenge me on you. But my hand shall not be against you.”
A man who fears the Lord will not do anything against God’s will even though it seems to be correct in his eyes and in the eye of everyone else. Moreover, a man who fears the Lord will be recognized even by his adversary.
Saul who was after David’s life, responds to David’s action with this confession..
“Is this your voice, my son David?” And Saul lifted up his voice and wept. Then he said to David: “You are more righteous than I; for you have rewarded me with good, whereas I have rewarded you with evil. And you have shown this day how you have dealt well with me; for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me. ”
Furthermore, he blesses him!
“Therefore may the LORD reward you with good for what you have done to me this day. And now I know indeed that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand. Therefore swear now to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants after me, and that you will not destroy my name from my father’s house.”
David who was running away from death, promises not to harm the one who is king.
It is not the one who has power, who is mighty before God, but the one who heeds to God’s voice, who is made mighty by God.
In different schools of thought, different things are permissible. That itself speaks for the man made holiness of those teachings.
But the God who made the Universe and every person, animal and thing-seen or unseen- declares Himself to be Holy and who can defy Him? He is Holy. He says anger(without a cause) in the heart is equal to murder. He sure has high standards of Holiness. He demands mercy and justice and not offering. He sure is above all other man made holy gods and schools of thoughts. He defines lusting a woman with the eye as adultery. He sure has unbeatable standards. He defends the fatherless and the widow and the oppressed. He is holy and there is none to compare with Him.
And the very fact that man-defined holiness(be it in moral science, religion or theology) is not holy at all but filthy dung is evident when compared with the “real” God’s holiness.
It is always to our advantage to ask what the God of the Universe wants before doing something.. Because like any rule in the U.S, it is best to be followed and guaranteed to be flawless. Other opinions seem to me like rules in our own home country-which can be twisted, bribed, compromised and even neglected.
So, what is the requirement of the Lord ?
The requirement of the Lord is to live with a clean heart and that requires much more than we are capable of, so we must allow God to help us. If we strive to love the Lord our God with all our heart and all our soul and with all our mind- striving to know Him, His heart, His commandments/ life-giving rules (no fines, no guilt, no accusation, no hell) God Himself will help us because He said, He who seeks will find, and we will find the work of the Maker of our heart continued …to cleanse and beautify like His Own.
And the more we know the Lord, we will see how awe-filling He is and how unworthy of His Love we are.
1 Samuel 24 : 8 onwards(to 21).
When David (before becoming king) was escaping from the then king Saul, he and his supporters hid in a cave. Saul was God’s chosen king but he had failed God and pride had led him to disobey God. God had chosen David to succeed Saul as king and Saul was after David’s life.
In the cave…
“..where there was a cave; and Saul went in to attend to his needs. (David and his men were staying in the recesses of the cave.)” (1 Samuel 24:3)
“Then the men of David said to him, “This is the day of which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do to him as it seems good to you.’” (1 Samuel 24:4)
The men who “supported” David twisted God’s promise to David to favor their will, but this is what the man whose heart was after God did.
‘And David arose and secretly cut off a corner of Saul’s robe. Now it happened afterward that David’s heart troubled him because he had cut Saul’s robe. ’ (1 Samuel 24:4,5)
David did NOT obey the voices of his friends even though they were the ones who supported him, who were in his favor and in favor of securing his life. Instead, when David’s conscience troubled him, he refused to do as they said. David feared God than man and did not act against his conscience.
“And he said to his men, “The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my master, the LORD’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.” So David restrained his servants with these words, and did not allow them to rise against Saul.” (2 Samuel 24:6-7)
David himself knew that Saul, God’s anointed king had failed God and that God had made Samuel (prophet) anoint David as king. But David did not assume God’s will and act against God’s will. For the fear of the Lord, he did not act against his conscience (something we kill and bury in our life).
After Saul gets up from the cave and goes, David follows afterward and tells Saul:
““My lord the king! …….Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Indeed David seeks your harm’? Look, this day your eyes have seen that the LORD delivered you today into my hand in the cave, and someone urged me to kill you. But my eye spared you, and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD’s anointed.’ Moreover, my father, see! Yes, see the corner of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the corner of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you. Yet you hunt my life to take it. Let the LORD judge between you and me, and let the LORD avenge me on you. But my hand shall not be against you.”
A man who fears the Lord will not do anything against God’s will even though it seems to be correct in his eyes and in the eye of everyone else. Moreover, a man who fears the Lord will be recognized even by his adversary.
Saul who was after David’s life, responds to David’s action with this confession..
“Is this your voice, my son David?” And Saul lifted up his voice and wept. Then he said to David: “You are more righteous than I; for you have rewarded me with good, whereas I have rewarded you with evil. And you have shown this day how you have dealt well with me; for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me. ”
Furthermore, he blesses him!
“Therefore may the LORD reward you with good for what you have done to me this day. And now I know indeed that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand. Therefore swear now to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants after me, and that you will not destroy my name from my father’s house.”
David who was running away from death, promises not to harm the one who is king.
It is not the one who has power, who is mighty before God, but the one who heeds to God’s voice, who is made mighty by God.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
It is a matter of the heart
Why is Jesus different from any other teacher ? Why is Christ different from any other preacher ?
Apart from a host of other reasons, there is something that He preached.
In Matthew 15:17-20, after the teachers of the Law came and accused Jesus’ disciples of not washing hands before eating bread and thus “transgressing” the tradition of the elders, Jesus explains to the disciples what the heart of the matter is.
He explains thus:
..Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
Just because we say the right things at the right time or learn moral science in school-which is all about “doing” the right thing, we are not set right with God. Because the heart is still filthy.
God is a “discerner” of thoughts- he judges even the thoughts of man. Who can escape ?
When Jesus came, He struck at the heart of the matter which was the heart itself.
Check out Matthew 5 :21 - 30
“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’
But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment.
Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.”
We have all been educated to know enough that murder is wrong. We are civilized.
But did we even imagine, didn’t anyone teach us that anger in the heart was as bad, as wrong as murder itself ?
Again..
“You have heard that it was said to those of old, You shall not commit adultery.’
But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.”
We all ‘know’ adultery is wrong. Did anyone tell us lusting in the heart, lusting with the eye IS adultery?
“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
These are the things which defile a man” -Matt. 15:19,20
God checks if you are defiled by checking what’s in your heart, not by our good manners, courtesy, hospitality, charity, going to church every Sunday or even the offerings we give.
So what do we do ??
Paul tells in Galatians 5:16-26 as a remedy ,
“I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.”
Like the passage says, God’s Spirit yearns jealously for us. Because we are His creation, made after His image by Him to walk and love Him and we go after the passions of the flesh (even though we do not wish to and vice versa “so that you do not do the things that you wish.” )
We in flesh are victims to the work of the flesh.
But when we are led and walk with God-His Spirit, we bear fruit of the Holy Spirit- which is mind you, not the world’s love, peace or joy just as the world could not show us what anger and adultery really were.
Let us ask God to change our heart and lead us by His Spirit that we too may produce fruit within our heart- of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Apart from a host of other reasons, there is something that He preached.
In Matthew 15:17-20, after the teachers of the Law came and accused Jesus’ disciples of not washing hands before eating bread and thus “transgressing” the tradition of the elders, Jesus explains to the disciples what the heart of the matter is.
He explains thus:
..Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
Just because we say the right things at the right time or learn moral science in school-which is all about “doing” the right thing, we are not set right with God. Because the heart is still filthy.
God is a “discerner” of thoughts- he judges even the thoughts of man. Who can escape ?
When Jesus came, He struck at the heart of the matter which was the heart itself.
Check out Matthew 5 :21 - 30
“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’
But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment.
Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.”
We have all been educated to know enough that murder is wrong. We are civilized.
But did we even imagine, didn’t anyone teach us that anger in the heart was as bad, as wrong as murder itself ?
Again..
“You have heard that it was said to those of old, You shall not commit adultery.’
But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.”
We all ‘know’ adultery is wrong. Did anyone tell us lusting in the heart, lusting with the eye IS adultery?
“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
These are the things which defile a man” -Matt. 15:19,20
God checks if you are defiled by checking what’s in your heart, not by our good manners, courtesy, hospitality, charity, going to church every Sunday or even the offerings we give.
So what do we do ??
Paul tells in Galatians 5:16-26 as a remedy ,
“I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.”
Like the passage says, God’s Spirit yearns jealously for us. Because we are His creation, made after His image by Him to walk and love Him and we go after the passions of the flesh (even though we do not wish to and vice versa “so that you do not do the things that you wish.” )
We in flesh are victims to the work of the flesh.
But when we are led and walk with God-His Spirit, we bear fruit of the Holy Spirit- which is mind you, not the world’s love, peace or joy just as the world could not show us what anger and adultery really were.
Let us ask God to change our heart and lead us by His Spirit that we too may produce fruit within our heart- of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Fearfully and Wonderfully made..
Ever wondered how we were born..
How we came into being?
How we became perfectly functional and intricately designed ?
Here is something that led me to think......
It occurred to me from the lives of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ that an angel came and named them even before they were “conceived” !
The angel tells Zechariah 'Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John' -Luke 1:13
The angel tells Mary 'You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus' -Luke 1:31
To cite a few more examples on God's calling of people by name even before they were born or concieved..
A man of God cries out against the altar by the word of the LORD : "O altar, altar! This is what the LORD says: 'A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David. '
-1 Kings 13:1-2
Coincidence?
Here's one more :)
Isaiah prophesies about a king called Cyrus like this :
The Lord says of Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd, And he shall perform all My pleasure, Saying to Jerusalem, “You shall be built,” And to the temple, “Your foundation shall be laid.” '
- from Isaiah 44:2,28
By the way Cyrus wasn't even born at that time! This is before Israel's capture by Babylon and Cyrus is the king of Persia who defeats the Babylonian empire.
The word of the prophet is brought to pass in Ezra 1:1
'Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying…….'
and the former prophesy about Josiah is fulfilled in 2 Kings 22 and 2 Kings 23:16
'As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.'
It struck me that God knows every man and woman, not just by face, but by name and not just afer but even before we are born, which means not one is an accident but the very purposeful creation of God.
'You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them. '
-Psalm 139 : 13-16
This is what God says..........
'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
Before you were born I sanctified you;
I ordained you ...'
-Jeremiah 1:4,5
Praises be to this God, our Maker, our designer...
How we came into being?
How we became perfectly functional and intricately designed ?
Here is something that led me to think......
It occurred to me from the lives of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ that an angel came and named them even before they were “conceived” !
The angel tells Zechariah 'Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John' -Luke 1:13
The angel tells Mary 'You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus' -Luke 1:31
To cite a few more examples on God's calling of people by name even before they were born or concieved..
A man of God cries out against the altar by the word of the LORD : "O altar, altar! This is what the LORD says: 'A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David. '
-1 Kings 13:1-2
Coincidence?
Here's one more :)
Isaiah prophesies about a king called Cyrus like this :
The Lord says of Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd, And he shall perform all My pleasure, Saying to Jerusalem, “You shall be built,” And to the temple, “Your foundation shall be laid.” '
- from Isaiah 44:2,28
By the way Cyrus wasn't even born at that time! This is before Israel's capture by Babylon and Cyrus is the king of Persia who defeats the Babylonian empire.
The word of the prophet is brought to pass in Ezra 1:1
'Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying…….'
and the former prophesy about Josiah is fulfilled in 2 Kings 22 and 2 Kings 23:16
'As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.'
It struck me that God knows every man and woman, not just by face, but by name and not just afer but even before we are born, which means not one is an accident but the very purposeful creation of God.
'You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them. '
-Psalm 139 : 13-16
This is what God says..........
'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
Before you were born I sanctified you;
I ordained you ...'
-Jeremiah 1:4,5
Praises be to this God, our Maker, our designer...
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Magnificent God
O Lord God Creator of heaven and earth…
Do I even know what that means ??? To address the God of the universe and the God of all things!!!? How can I defiantly just call on His Name?? So freely address ???
I cannot believe (I do though) this amazing access given to me by Jesus, God’s Son. He paid the price I had to pay –of eternal condemnation, on the cross, so that I can “approach the Throne of Grace with confidence” “as sons and co-heirs with Jesus Christ, the Son of God!”
It is not the Magnificence of this Almighty God that keeps us from Him (as man thinks) because God is Not man and does not think like man does, man who “glories” in himself.
On the contrary, this magnificent God and Maker, made man for the very purpose of having a glorious relationship with Him. And that is what Adam and Eve had, with God!
It was not the Glory of this God that kept man from God, but man’s sin. Adam and Eve-father and mother of all mankind, sinned and fell short of the Glory of God. It is man who fell short and lost his glorious relationship with God.
It is the Glorious God! who regained us to Himself through the Perfect and Blemishless Sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ. As Jesus, God’s Son is Perfect, so are we, WHO are HIS. And ours is the glorious relationship with God the Father along with and side-by- side WITH Jesus!
Do I even know what that means ??? To address the God of the universe and the God of all things!!!? How can I defiantly just call on His Name?? So freely address ???
I cannot believe (I do though) this amazing access given to me by Jesus, God’s Son. He paid the price I had to pay –of eternal condemnation, on the cross, so that I can “approach the Throne of Grace with confidence” “as sons and co-heirs with Jesus Christ, the Son of God!”
It is not the Magnificence of this Almighty God that keeps us from Him (as man thinks) because God is Not man and does not think like man does, man who “glories” in himself.
On the contrary, this magnificent God and Maker, made man for the very purpose of having a glorious relationship with Him. And that is what Adam and Eve had, with God!
It was not the Glory of this God that kept man from God, but man’s sin. Adam and Eve-father and mother of all mankind, sinned and fell short of the Glory of God. It is man who fell short and lost his glorious relationship with God.
It is the Glorious God! who regained us to Himself through the Perfect and Blemishless Sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ. As Jesus, God’s Son is Perfect, so are we, WHO are HIS. And ours is the glorious relationship with God the Father along with and side-by- side WITH Jesus!
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