What A Sea To Swim In!

"There is none holy as the LORD for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God." (1 Samuel 2:2)

What a broad world to roam in, what a sea to swim in is this God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is eternal. He antedates time and is wholly independent of it. Time began in Him and will end in Him. To it He pays no tribute and from it He suffers no change.

He is immutable. He has never changed and can never change in any smallest measure. To change He would need to go from better to worse or from worse to better. He cannot do either, for being perfect He cannot become more perfect, and if He were to become less perfect He would be less than God.

He is omniscient. He knows in one free and effortless act all matter, all spirit, all relationships, all events. He has no past and He has no future. He is, and none of the limiting and qualifying terms used of creatures can apply to Him.

Love and mercy and righteousness are His, and holiness so ineffable that no comparisons or figures will avail to express it.

I'm overwhelmed when I even try to comprehend Your attributes, Father. I worship You, for there is indeed no God like You. Amen

_____________________________________________

God Rises Above Rationality

"Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?" (Job 26:14)

Now the holy man of God said, "Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him?" (Job 26:14). All that we can think or say is rational. But God rises above rationality. He raises as high above the rational as he does above the physical. God is of an essence and substance the likes of which nothing else exists in the universe. He is above it all - and yet we can know a little portion of God's ways. When I preach on the being of God, the attributes of God, when I talk about what God is like, and what kind of God He is, I approach it respectfully, from afar. I point with a reverent finger to the tall mountain peak which is God, which rises infinitely above my power to comprehend. But that  is only a little portion. The paths of His ways cannot be known; the rest is super-rational.

How terrible it is that, in the presence of this awesome, awful God, some people are untouched by it all! How frightful, how awesome, how awful it is! We don't want to her about God. We want to hear about something that can tickle our fancy, that can satisfy our morbid curiosity or our longing after romance.

I see such a little portion, Lord, of who You are, and yet how awesome are Your ways! May I never be untouched by what I see of You. Amen

~A. W. Tozer~