"He Must Be Praised!"

"For He spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast." (Psalms 33:9) I am always so fascinated by those that doubt that God can fix something in their life; never mind that they don't see how, because that is to be expected; but to not think that He can, is pretty much a sin to think in such a way; if He can create something from nothing, then He surely can fix something from something! This verse is one of those that really do not need much explaining or exploration; it pretty much says what it means and means what it says: God does what God does, because God is God; so there! And then again, we could examine the life of Jesus, say, like looking at some of the things He did while He walked among us; for there were many cases where this verse fits quite perfectly in the way He commanded the sea and the wind to calm the storm, or spoke against the fig tree, and it withered up and died; not to mention the spectacular ways that He healed the lame, the blind, and those that were possessed by demons; there was really nothing that was not subject to His commands. Believe it or not, but I have had very interesting discussions with people who questioned how Jesus could be God, stating, Why would God need to come and die for our sins? and, If God wanted to remove our sins from us, couldn't He have just commanded that it be so? It is true that God can do whatever God wants to do, because He is God; but when it comes to loving us, God did what He needed to do in order to prove His love for us. The greatest promise of all time, is found in John 3:16, where it says, "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." This was God's way of proving to the world how much that He loved us; to give of Himself that we might have everlasting life with Him. And regarding the question of why He needed to come Himself, it's really a matter of having a perfect sacrifice; because, only God is perfect, therefore, only God Himself could have been the one to pay the price for all of our sins! It is really not a question of why, or even how, but the real question that must be raised and answered in every doubting heart, is, Did He really die for me? Then Know THIS: "That if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Romans 10:9-13)