Thought For Today - December 28 - If Someone Should Ask - Who Is God ?

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 Thought For Today -December 28
 If someone should ask: Who is God?

    If someone should ask, who is God?  "God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." John 4:24.  God is an infinite, eternal being. the divine source of all things.  He is the creator of the universe and everything in it.  In the beginning, (which excludes the beginning of God, for he had no beginning and has no end), God said let there be, and it was so.

"    In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.  And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.  And God said, let there be light: and there was light.  And God saw the light, that it was good: and God called the light day, and the darkness he called night.  And the evening and the morning  were the first day." Genesis 1: 1-5.

    God is a person, and though he is invisible, he is the ultimate personality.  God is love, there could be no love for one another upon earth, except that God has extended his attribute of love toward us.  God is  the supreme intelligence.  God knows.  There could be no knowledge of anything except that God has imputed that knowledge from himself to mankind. God sees all things, and God hears all things, and God is concerned and cares for all his creatures. "He who made the eye, can he not see?  And he that made the ear, can he not hear?". God sees, God hears, and God knows, there is nothing hid from him. No man can hide from God, whether his deeds be good or evil.  God is holy and all righteousness is in him.  God hates sin and will eventually judge all sin.

    God has chosen to reveal himself to mankind in several different ways.  He has revealed himself in nature, in his creation.  "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handiwork.  Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.  there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard." Psalm 19:1-3. There is no excuse for any intelligent being on earth not to know that God is, and that he is the creator of all things.

    God has revealed himself to mankind through the Holy Scriptures, The Holy Bible.
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." 2 Timothy 3:16,17.  "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.  For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." 2 Peter 20,21

     If one would ask, who is God?, Then let him look to the heavens and observe and admire the glories of God's creation in the universe, in the stars and the galaxies.  Let him look at the birds, the bees, the flowers, the animal kingdom and see the intelligent design of an intelligent creator. If one would ask: Who is God?  Let him search the holy scriptures, the word of God, The bible, for therein God tells us who he is and what he requires of his creation.  When God revealed himself to Moses on Mt Sini and gave him the ten commandments, he said to Moses: "I am that I am".  God requires holiness, "Be ye holy as I am holy." God's requirement for the human race is that they have no other God beside him.  "And thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.  And the second is like, namely this, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.  There is none other commandment greater than these.

    God has finally revealed himself in the person and incarnation of his only begotten son, The Lord Jesus Christ.  No person can know God, nor approach unto God except by and through him. "God, who at sundry times and in divers manner spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high;  Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they." Hebrews 1: 1-4. 
    If one would ask: Who is God? Then let him lift up his eyes, and behold the only begotten son of God, the perfect lamb of God.  God who is spirit, took upon himself  a human body in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, who is the Christ, the Messiah.

    "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God.. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.  In him was life; and the life was the light of men,.  And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." John 1: 1-5.

    All men and women, boys and girls, who have ever lived on earth are by nature sinners, having inherited  the sin nature from our first parents, Adam and Eve.  Because of this fact, the bible tells us that we are born estranged and separated from God, and consequently unless we are able to keep all the laws of God perfectly and attain unto his holiness, we are all condemned to be eternally separated from God and spend eternity in  a literal Hell.  No man ever lived on earth who could measure up to the holiness of God except the Son of God.  Only in him is perfect sinlessness  and holiness.  The word of God the bible tells us that God in his love and mercy looked down upon the lost condition of mankind and that: "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3: 16.

    Who then is God?  God is our creator, our source, our beginning.  God is God, the "Iam, that I am".  He is the one that loves us with an  everlasting love, and is not willing for any of us to perish and be separated from him forever.  God never sent anyone to hell and he never will.  If we should find ourselves eternally confined to the horrors of hell, it will be our own fault, because two thousand years ago, born in a stable in Bethlehem as prophesied by the prophet Micah, was Christ, the Perfect, sinless lamb of God, who came to take away the sin of the world,  God has promised that whosoever will believe in him, and ask him for forgiveness, and receive him into their heart will be forgiven and will be given the gift of everlasting life.   The scripture warns us: "Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things  which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and  disobedience received a just  recompense of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect  so great salvation; which at the first  began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;  God also bearing them witness, both  with signs and wonders, and  with divers miracles, and gifts  of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?" Hebrews 2: 1-4.

    This then, should answer the question: Who is God?  Before it is eternally too late won't you turn  to Christ and accept him as your own personal Lord and Savior?

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