Yesterday on The Morning Meditation we looked at God’s Offer of Guidance. He wants to be our Instructor, Teacher and Counselor. Are you willing to take Him up on His offer?
Today on The Morning Meditation:
THE GOD OF THE BIBLE
Gen. 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
God is named in the first verse of the Bible. He is here identified as the Creator. The word God itself is Elohim. The word Elohim is the word El put in the plural form and that is where we get “ohim” as an ending on the word “El.” The plural in the Hebrew is three or more differing from the English in grammar. In English we have the singular and the plural. In the Hebrew we have the singular, duel, and the plural. There is no attempt to prove there is a God in this passage. It just tells us what God does. But the reason I am making at least a short comment on this is to show that in the very first verse of the Bible God revealed Himself in TRINITY, i.e., the three strong ones. God is One God and yet a Trinity from the very first verse in the Bible. There is no way to avoid this without putting aside all the rules of correct interpretation. There is no other God like Him. He is God and there is no other.
To avoid dealing with God as Creator, placing Him before all things is a mistake of immeasurable proportions. It is to insult Him and avoid crediting Him with the person He really is and to relegate Him to some sort of being that came on the scene and is the result of self creation and no more than the brain child of the philosopher who needs to create a god who is man’s servant not man’s God. This kind of philosophy tells God what He can and can’t do ultimately in the judgment. Boy are those mindless birds in for a shock when they discover that the plowboy working out a living in the soil has more sense in his little finger then they do even though the degrees at the end of their names are long enough to spell Sacramento, California!!!
Sometimes the books are only a means to magnify the author and those who follow their pernicious knowledge and serve to make them heroes of the wisdom of this world but leave them lost without God and without hope. Let’s look as some of the things the Bible says about God.
THE GOD OF ALL GRACE
1 Peter 5:10, "But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you."
John Gill comments on this phrase: “Who has riches of grace, an immense plenty of it in himself, has treasured up a fulness of grace in his Son; is the author of all the blessings of grace, of electing, adopting, justifying, pardoning, and regenerating grace; and is the giver of the several graces of the Spirit, as faith, hope, love, repentance, &c. and of all the supplies of grace; and by this character is God the Father described as the object of prayer, to encourage souls to come to the throne of his grace, and pray, and hope for, and expect a sufficiency of his grace in every time of need; as well as to show that the sufferings of the saints here are but for a while; that they are in love and kindness; and that they shall certainly enjoy the glory they are called unto . . .”
The words “The God of all grace” suggests that He is its author. He is the beginner of grace, i.e., the one who thought it up. When man sinned in the Garden of Eden there is no one who knew better than Him that the depths to which we fell was out of the reach of anything short of mercy and grace. Man could desire restoration but he could never be restored by himself. He could try but his trials would fail. He could devise means hoping that the exercise of these means would restore him from his fallen state but they would not work. When man sinned the death that became his destiny was impossible to over come. It would take the same Creator who made him originally to come to where we are and take us to where He is.
