Psalm 105: 23-45
One thing, I’m coming to grips with is, the old brain has the information stored, but the “cookies” (using computer language) I’ve acquired over the 77 years have slowed down the processor. It seems more often than not the word I’m looking for shows up long after it is needed in a conversation, and usually the person I’m talking to will help me and that sure does not restore my pride.
As Jan and I have studied the attributes of God, it has become clear that He is unlike anything or anyone we can imagine and aren’t you glad that He is. He is infinite meaning self-existing, without origin. If you said God is wisdom, you would be correct, for He is not able to make a mistake (Romans 11:33) If you stated God is sovereign, once again you are 100% correct, over all that He has created. If you were to say God is Holy, yes that’s what sets him apart from all created beings. If you told me God is a trinity, “The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, once more you hit it on the head. If you referred to God as faithful in that, He never forgets His promises, and they will all come to pass.
You might wonder why would Jan and Bob want to search for the attributes of God, it’s simple, if you love a person you want to know all about them, and we are in love with our Father. You might find verse 42 encouraging as you study this Psalms; “For he remembered his holy promise given to his servant Abraham.” Many a year had passed since God made this promise, yes, generations have come and gone, and yet the promise made to (Abram later to have his name changed by God to Abraham), found in Genesis 12:1-3. “The Lord said to Abram: Go out from your land, your relatives, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you; I will curse those who treat you with contempt, and all the peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
I’m afraid many today have developed false teaching, it is a truth we will be heir and co-heirs with our Lord Jesus Christ, but we will not be all-knowing. Our eternal life will be learning from our Father and Son and the Holy Spirit. Now that is not to say we will not know a lot more than we do now, look at 1 Corinthians 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.”
From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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