But in the Old Testament, the Book of Genesis declares that God 'existed' before 'creation' and God is in full control of the physical universe/world. God called the world into being by His word. God power is absolute. God does not have to conform to nature and cannot be threatened by it. God is sovereign and does not have to share His power with other supernatural beings.
Since God created the universe/world/earth out of nothing, it is His and will always serve His purpose. As God shaped creation without any interference from anyone, He will bring creation to its desired end. No power can frustrate God in His purpose to complete the process started in creation and indeed, it is revealed in the Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible.
Therefore, our hope rests in the sovereign power of God, the Almighty.
God is Omnipotence (a theological term that refers to all-powerful, all-encompassing power of God) The almighty God expects human beings to be obedience to Him, and God holds them responsible for their thoughts, words and actions. God has so fashioned humankind that He graciously appeals to every person to return to Him.
At various times in the past and in various different ways, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets; but in our own time, the last days, He has spoken to us through His Son [The Lord Jesus Christ], the Son that He has appointed to inherit everything and through whom He made everything there is.
He [The Lord Jesus Christ] is the radiant light of God's glory and the perfect copy of His nature, sustaining the universe by His powerful command; and now that He has destroyed the defilement of sin, He has gone to take His place in heaven at the right hand of divine Majesty. So He is now as far above the angels as the title which He has inherited than their own name. - Heb. 1:1-4 - Gen. 1:1-31 - John 1:1-18 -
God is Omnipresence (a theological term that refers to God ability to be everywhere at all times or the unlimited nature of God) God is never like the manufactured idols of ancient cultures that were limited to one altar or temple area. God was present as Lord in all creation, and there is no escaping Him. God is present in our innermost thoughts. Even as we are formed in the womb, God knows all the days of our future.
God hears and looks not only on outward words and actions, but especially on the inner attitudes, characters, and behaviors of a person's heart. It is because God is the "Creator and Sustainer" of time and space. God is everywhere and being everywhere, He is our great Redeemer, Comforter, and Friend.
Where could I go to escape Your spirit?
Where could I flee from Your presence?
If I climb the heavens, You are there,
there too, if I lie in Sheol.
If I flew to the points of sunrise,
or westward across the sea,
Your hand would still be guiding me,
Your right hand holding me.
If I asked darkness to cover me,
and light to become night around me,
that darkness would not be dark to You,
night would be as light as day.
It was You who created my inmost self,
and put me together in my mother's womb;
for all these mysteries I thank you:
for the wonder of myself, for the wonder of Your works.
You know me through and through,
from having watched my bones take shape
when I was being formed in secret,
knitted together in the limbo of the womb.
You had scrutinised my every action,
all were recorded in your book,
my days listed and determined,
even before the first of them occurred.
God, how hard it is to grasp Your thoughts!
How impossible to count them!
I could no more count them than I could the sand,
and suppose I could, You would still be with me. - Ps. 139:7-18 -
How rich are the depths of God - how deep His wisdom and knowledge - and how impossible to penetrate His motives or understand His methods! Who could ever know the mind of the Lord? Who could ever be His counsellor? Who could ever give Him anything? All that exists comes from Him; all is by Him and for Him. To God be glory for ever! Amen. - Rom. 11:33-36 -
As soon as Jesus was baptized he came up from the water, and suddenly the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on him. And a voice spoke from heaven, "This is my Son, the Beloved; My favor rests on him." - Matt. 3:16-17 -
God is Omniscience. (a theological term that refers to God's superior knowledge and wisdom, His power to know all things) God is the Lord who knows our words thoughts from afar. He is acquainted with all our ways, knowing our words even before they are on our tongues. God needs to consult no one for knowledge or understanding.
God is all-knowing Lord who prophesies the events of the future, including the death of His Only Begotten Son and the return of Christ Jesus at the end of this age when death will be finally overcome.
Therefore, only the all-knowing and all-powerful God can guarantee real freedom from sin, decay, and death. God can begin a process of change in believers during the present ages; for "where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
Having this hope, we can be quite confident; not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites would not notice the ending of what had to fade. And anyway, their minds had been dulled; indeed, to this very day, that same veil is still there when the old covenant is being read, a veil never lifted, since Christ alone can remove it.
Yes, even today, whenever Moses is read, the veil is over their minds. It will not be removed until they turn to the Lord Jesus Christ. Now this Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, with our unveiled faces reflecting like mirrors the brightness of the Lord, all grow brighter and brighter as we are turned into the image that we reflect; this is the work of the Lord who is Spirit. - 2 Cor. 3:12-18 -
I think that what we suffer in this life can never be compared to the glory, as yet unrevealed, which is waiting for us. The whole creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal His sons and daughters. It was not for any faults on the part of creation that it was made unable to attain its purpose, it was made so by God: but creation still retains the hope of being freed, like us, from the slavery to decadence, to enjoy the same freedom and glory as the children of God.
From the beginning till now the entire creation, as we know, has been groaning in one great act of giving birth; and not only creation, but all of us who possess the first-fruits of the Spirit, we too groan inwardly as we wait for our bodies to be set free.
For we must be content to hope that we shall be saved - our salvation is not in sight, we should not have to be hoping for it if it were -. but as I say, we must hope to be saved since we are not saved yet - it is something we must wait for with patience.
The Spirit too comes to help us in our weakness. For when we cannot choose words in order to pray properly, the Spirit Himself expresses our plea in a way that could never be put onto words, and God who knows everything in our hearts knows perfectly well what he/she means, and that the pleas of the saints expressed by the Spirit are according to the mind of God.
We know that by turning everything to their good God cooperates with all those who love Him, with all those that He called according to His purpose. They are the ones He chose specially long ago and intended to become true images of His Son, so that His Son might be the eldest of many brothers. God called those He intended for this; those He called He justified, and with those He justified He shared His glory.
After saying this, what can we add? With God on our side who can be against us? Since God did not spare His own Son, but gave him up to benefit us all, we may be certain, after such a gift, that He will not refuse anything He can give.
Could anyone accuse those that God has chosen? When God acquits, could anyone condemn? Could Christ Jesus? No! Jesus Christ not only died for us - He rose from the dead, and there at God's right hand He stands and pleads for us.
Nothing therefore can come between us and the love of Christ Jesus, even if we are troubled or worried, or being persecuted, or lacking food and clothes, or being threatened or even attacked. As Sacred Scripture promised: For your sake we are being massacred daily, and reckoned as sheep for the slaughter. These are the trails through which we triumph, by the power of Him who loved us.
For I am certain of this: neither death nor life, no angel, no prince, nothing that exists, nothing still to come, not any power, or height or depth, nor any created thing, can ever come between us and the love of God made visible in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Rom. 8:18-39 - Heb. 4:12-13; Ps. 139:1-6; Is. 40:13-14; Is. chapter 53 -
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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