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 deed 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 his 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 1: 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 by 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 shall
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 theWord 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 literal
Hell. No man ever lived on earth who could measure up to the
holinbess 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 “I am 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?
