But My Word  

   Week 3   

Knowing Him Better    

   We continue the pursuit of blessings in the knowledge - not only what God has said - but of the ways he has communicated to man, beginning in Genesis 1.

   This may help us know him even better. We assume He doesn't mind that we take note of his methods, from basic God-to-Adam talk, and on through history.

   In creation we clearly see and understand God's invisible qualities and eternal power (Romans 1:20), if we are willing to look. There is no other God. But there is God.

   Although the Lord clearly desires that we communicate with prayers, as his children, He doesn't need us to tell him anything. In Psalm 139: O Lord, you have searched me ... you perceive my thoughts from afar ... you discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

   One of his choices is to speak to us in nature. Psalm 147: He sends his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly. He spreads the snow ... and scatters the frost ... hurls down hail. He sends his word and melts them; He stirs up the breezes, and the waters flow.

   He is independent of creation (Ex. 24); eternal (Psalm 90); unchangeable (Psalm 102); perfect, holy and righteous (Psalm 85), and triune (Deut. 6; Matt. 28). 

   God, who speaks his Word to us, is good (Psalm 25), and loving (1 John 4). He is truth (Psalm 31). 

   He is merciful, gracious, compassionate, slow to anger, and He abounds in love and faithfulness (Ex. 24), forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet He does not leave the guilty unpunished. 

   In the beginning, God created. And the Son who came to make it personal,

 says - Yes, I am coming (again) soon. 

Friday: The Word is a Person