Friday, September 28, 2012

"God's Personhood"

"Their line is gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them hath He set a tabernacle for the sun," (Psalms 19:4) Trusting God is based upon a relationship that has been established with Him; for how can a man trust in He who he does not know? I am of the opinion that fellowship with God is something that we must hold as our greatest treasure of all, because that is really what it is all about; what God has done to redeem us unto Himself, He did so that we might have fellowship with Him. This truly is a relationship that is based upon love! At the end of the prayer that Jesus prayed in the garden before He was arrested, He said, "O righteous Father, the world hath not known Thee: but I have known Thee, and these have known that Thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them Thy name, and will declare it; that the love wherewith Thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them". (John 17:25 & 26) As you begin to think about what kind of love Jesus is speaking about within this statement, remember that Jesus had come from glory to show forth the love of the Father; as that famous song would say, "Light of the world You stepped down into darkness, opened my eyes let me see, beauty that makes this heart adore You, hope of a life spent with you". A declaration of God's love for us was about to be made, as Jesus was about to be placed upon that cross for our sins, so that we might have fellowship restored with the Father; for Jesus had declared the Father's name in words and signs and wonders, now He was about to declare the Father's name in the act of sacrifice; showing forth the love that Jesus declared of the Father when He had spoken to Nicodemus one night, and said, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life". Now then, since we have placed some context into what it is to know Him who you trust, we can begin to understand what I believe that David is saying within this verse; something that is based upon God's order which has been established for all of His creation, and how secure we have become in them. Hollywood has a great way of making ways to show failure in God's order of His creation; with movies that show asteroids destroying the earth, or our sun growing to hot for earth's existence. But we have more of a threat of being smashed and burned by our own space junk, then we do of getting destroyed by God's creation. That is trust based upon His order of this which He has established; otherwise, we all would be looking up each day and looking for our world to be coming to an end... The sky is not falling...yet!

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