So, Who is God?

So, who is God?

Based on the account of the Exodus, we can learn who God is. His character is revealed in a fresh way throughout the whole story.

He sees. He hears. He answers. He saves. He is merciful. He is sovereign over the hearts of man and the events of your world. Nothing is too difficult for Him.

He allows hardship and creates impossible situations for your good and for HIs glory. He is your deliver. He is your provider. He is a just God and will ultimately condemn the ungodly. He does things for HIS glory and for His renown. You can trust HIm.

Bottom line. In HIs time, beloveds, He is mighty to save.

This is only a nutshell. As I mentioned in the previous blog "Meditate on These Things", please read, study, and wonder on HIs mighty deeds, especially those of the Exodus. I long for you to KNOW the God of your father and mother

Meditate on These Things

In Phil 4:8, Paul exhorts us to guard our thought life.
He encourages us to dwell on whatever is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, whatever is of good repute. If there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, Paul says let your mind dwell on these things.

In trials, beloveds, guard your thought life. Listen to Paul. In hardship, follow his example. So, beloveds, my question to you is, what was Paul referring to when he said 'these things"?

Certainly scripture fits the bill. However, there are some of God’s wonders which are paramount to remember and meditate upon, especially in trials.

First, dwell upon the phenomenal story of the exodus. The exodus vividly illustrates WHO God is. His wisdom, power and glory are seen throughout the whole account, even until their entrance into the promised land. We must not forget the details.

God heard the cry of the afflicted and needy. He sent a weak vessel to deliver them. He turned the heart of Pharaoh any direction He desired. He sent unexplainable plagues. He sent a death angel to kill the first born of every household in the land, sparing only those who covered their thresholds with the blood of a lamb. He gloriously split the Red Sea, allowing the Israelites to safely cross on dry ground. And for the grand finale, He allowed the Israelites to watch their enemies be utterly destroyed by the crashing waves.

Learn and study these wonders. These wonders speak and teach of the character of God. God has not changed. He’s the same and His dealings with you are no different.

More on this in the next blog.

He did not open His mouth

For a while, Isaiah 53:7 has intrigued me.

He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth.

Notice the repeated phrase: He did not open His mouth.

Beloveds, Jesus came to earth to do His Father’s will. And, His Father’s will meant suffering. Deep suffering, deep pain, deep denial. Yet, He did not open His mouth.

Was it easy for the Son of God to suffer? No, thankfully God gives us the account of the garden of Gethsemane. Jesus wrestled with His final demise. He prayed, “Father if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.” Wrestling with God is not necessarily sin. David did his fair share of it. But resistance and rebellion to the will of God is sin. Ultimately, my beloveds, we must surrender to the will of God and open our mouths no more.

Whatever God wills, surrender to it.

In closing, Matthew Henry writes of Christ obedience:

By His wisdom He could have evaded the sentence, and by His power have resisted the execution; but thus it was written, and thus it behoved him to suffer.

We Fall Short

We Fall Short


Beloveds, I just read Isaiah 53. The life of Jesus is amazing and worth studying and pondering. Christ lived a perfectly righteous life, and then died a horrific death absorbing all the wrath that we deserve.

I don’t see anything in common we have with Christ. Nothing, except maybe, “He had no stately form or majesty, that we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him."

Yes, we have suffering as He had suffering, however, not even close to the same degree in which He suffered. Plus, He suffered for doing what was right. It seems many times we suffer for doing what is wrong.

So, where is hope? Hope is in the fact that He GAVE us His perfect righteousness. It’s a gift, so undeserved. He has covered our sins and clothed us in HIS royal robes of righteousness. Unfathomable.

Yes, we fall short, but our focus must not be on our “shortness”, but on His sufficiency. His grace is sufficient for us. His power is is perfected in our weakness. The life that we now live in the flesh we walk by faith in Him, who loved us and delivered Himself up for us.

Beloveds, study and soak in this great salvation, so that you might not waller in your weakness, but glory in His grace.