Wednesday, August 30, 2017

God’s Attributes as to Moral Beings—3


These next attributes are the ones we can hold on to when the times get tough. God is always there for us, He will never leave us nor forsake us, and He will help us make it through.  

August’s Awakening, Day 30

            Faithfulness. God always proves Himself to be true and He keeps all His promises. God is trustworthy, reliable, and always has our best interest at heart.

 

God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? Numbers 23:19 NIV 

 

I will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself. Psalm 89:2 NIV   

 

The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it. 1 Thessalonians 5:24 NIV   

 

            Genuineness. God is real and true, and although invisible, He makes Himself known in a myriad of ways. His desire is for us to be strongly connected to Him and basking in His presence.

 

No one is like you, Lord; you are great, and your name is mighty in power. Who should not fear you, King of the nations? This is your due. Among all the wise leaders of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you. But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King. When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath. Jeremiah 10:6–7, 10 NIV

 

            Freedom. God is independent of all His created beings—humanity, angels, and all creatures. He is not obligated to any of His created beings, nor responsible for, nor the caretaker of them. Yet He chooses to interact and commune intimately with humanity, especially, as we were created in His image, for His good purpose, and He desires to commune and be in relationship with us.

 

Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him. Psalm 115:3 NIV   

 

            Life. God is life and is the ultimate and only source of all life. All are His. God created humanity as spirit beings that are unable to be extinguished, as nothing is more precious than life. We must choose before our last breath where we will spend eternity—choosing Christ and paradise, or rejecting Christ and residing forevermore in the lake of fire.

 

Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Genesis 2:7 NIV

 

For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. John 5:26 NIV   

 

The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. John 6:63 NIV

 

But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. Matthew 7:14 NIV 

 

            The world may let you down and family and friends may let you down, but God will always be there for you—no matter how far you may be from Him, no matter how far you may have strayed, no matter what you have done—God is faithful and true and all His promises are for you.

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