God our Creator

 

 

God our Creator

 

The person who believes they have an understanding of the fullness of God is a person you should run from.

 

Often, I said when asking about my Lord, I’ve said He is Big, yet, big does not come close to explaining God.  Isaiah 55:8-9 gives us a glance at how our Creator and the created are different: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.  As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

 

I ask my Computer for a word or words that would describe the unexplainable

 

• Inscrutable: Something that is impossible to understand
• Unaccountable: Something that cannot be explained
• Mysterious: Something that is strange or difficult to understand
• Incomprehensible: Something that is impossible to understand

 

Our God is all of that and more.

Commentary from the sermon “The Attributes of God” by Alistair Begg:

“In earlier generations amongst God’s people, they would have found it very possible to answer the question ‘What is God like?’ For that question was … the fourth question … in the Westminster (Scottish) Catechism. … Your, reply would have been ‘God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.’ That would have been your answer. … Charles Hodge, the great theologian, said of that definition in the catechism that he reckoned it was ‘probably the best definition of God ever penned by man."

As we try to define God, maybe it would be wise to look at Romans 9:20-21, “But who are you, O man, to answer back to God?  Will what is molded say to its molder, ‘Why have you made me like this?’  Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honored use and another for dishonorable use?”

In the book of Deuteronomy chapter 32:39, “See now that I, even I, am he and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.”  I have always found such peace in looking at what God has revealed about His attributes.  These are some of them; He is just, (Hebrews 10:30-31); He is good, (Matthew 19:17); He is holy, (Revelation15: 4); He is righteous, (Psalm 119:137); He is sovereign, (Isaiah 46:9-10); He is everywhere, (Ezekiel 48:35); He is all-knowing, (Hebrews 4:13); He is unchanging, (James 1:17); He is truth, (Isaiah 65:16); He is merciful, (Ephesians 2:4); He is jealous, (Exodus 34:14); He is love, (I John 4:8); He is eternal, (Isaiah 48:12); He is a provider, (Genesis 22:14) He is a healer, (Exodus 15:26).

 

I believe God is!  If God is, then He does not need me, or anyone, to defend his character.  I find such peace in His sovereignty.  The Scriptures state in Isaiah 46:9-10 the following; “remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.”

 

In closing this paper, shall we look at Psalm 139:16-18, “Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.  How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!  How vast is the sum of them!  If I would count them, they are more than the sand.”

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice