Omniscient God

 God spoke everything into existence. He is everywhere and he is omniscient; He knows everything, he has all knowledge. He knows the past, present and future. He knows what our soul thinks is true and he knows what really is true. As a child I remembered the Christmas song that said that Santa knows if you have "been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake."  When we become an adult we put aside the kids story of Santa but we still are accountable to our Omniscient God. He knows our behavior and he offers to us the most awesome gift of all. He gave Jesus his son to save us from the punishment for our sins . He forgives our bad and leads us into a life full of blessings.

Psa 147:4  He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. 

Psa 147:5  Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure. 

Psa 147:6  The LORD lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked to the ground. 

Rom 11:33  Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 

Mat 10:28  And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. 

Mat 10:29  Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 

Mat 10:30  But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. 

Mat 10:31  Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. 

God really does know all about you and what he wants for you to do,  He loves us and will correct us for our good.

Omnipresent God

On the cover of Time magazine in 1966 was the statement "Is God dead?"  One of the comments in the article was that people were too busy to seek him.  Hal Lindsey, evangelist and author shares that If anyone responds to this knowledge that God exists, God will move heaven and earth to meet with him. 

God is omnipresent. Omnipresence is God's characteristic of being present to all ranges of both time and space. Although God is present in all time and space, God is not locally limited to any time or space. God is everywhere and in every now. No molecule or atomic particle is so small that God is not fully present to it, and no galaxy so vast that God does not circumscribe it.

Jer 23:23  “Am I a God at hand, declares the LORD, and not a God far away? 

Jer 23:24  Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD. 

 When my oldest brother was president of a manufacturing plant. He usually stayed separate from the workers, staying in the office. On occasion he would put on a white lab coat and stroll through the production area. The workers were well aware of his presence.  God is near. Our sins cause us to hide from him, but he has invited us to be made clean and white through faith in his son Jesus, who has paid the price for our redemption.

Psa 139:7  Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 

Psa 139:8  If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 

Psa 139:9  If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 

Psa 139:10  even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 

Psa 139:11  If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” 

Psa 139:12  even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. 

Psa 139:13  For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 

Psa 139:14  I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 

1Jn 4:12  No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 

God is near and he loves us.

Omnipotent God

 If you have eyes to see you will see that there is great beauty and wonder in the design of the universe, down to the smallest cell as seen in the most powerful microscope.  Our God is omnipotent; omni meaning "all" and potent meaning "power."  He has all power over all things at all times and in all ways.  Our God is wonderful and he loves us. If a human born from Adam had all power, we would be in trouble. A wicked ruler makes the people to groan. Prov 29:2 Our God is a good God.

 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Gen 1:1

‘Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. Jer 32:17

 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.  Job 42:2

By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. Ps 33:6

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Cor 15:22

After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, Rev 19:21

The all powerful God has designed us to be greater than the angels and to have fellowship with God our creator.  In Christ Jesus we come to be made spiritually alive for all eternity. Our all powerful God cares for us and he keeps his promises. We are not self made, he made us. Give God the glory.

 

The Love of God

What is the greatest attribute of God towards humanity?  What is the greatest need of humanity? The answer is in a song that was number one in 1949.  The song title was "Nature Boy", sung by Nat King Cole. Here is that simple and great quote from the song:"The greatest thing you’ll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return."

We love because God first loved us (1Jn 4:19)  Our sin has separated us from God and one another. God so loved us that he sent his son, Jesus, to be our payment for sins. (Jn 3:16) Because God has given to us love, we are to love others as well. (1Jn 4:21)  We should love God with all of our heart, soul, and mind. (Mat 22:37) There is a whole chapter in the Bible about how we are to love. (1 Cor 13)  If love is important to you you should read this chapter.  

1Co 13:1  If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 

1Co 13:2  And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 

1Co 13:3  If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 

1Co 13:4  Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 

1Co 13:5  or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 

1Co 13:6  it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 

1Co 13:7  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 

1Co 13:8  Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 

1Co 13:9  For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 

1Co 13:10  but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 

1Co 13:11  When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 

1Co 13:12  For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 

1Co 13:13  So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.