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Eternal One
For one who is eternal, who doesn’t change, who made all things not
Himself, who sustains it all by the power of His Word, He does not need
anything from us. We on the other hand are totally and completely
dependent upon Him, there is nothing we can do to add to Him. We
cannot give to Him anything He hasn’t made, if He wanted more of
anything He could just make it. He gives us our being, He setup the
universe we live in and keeps it running in a somewhat predictable
manner. So, what could we do to obligate God to do what we want?
His ways are above our ways, since He is eternal in scope, there was
never a time where God wasn’t just as He is now, and will be, the same
yesterday, today, and forever more. There was never a time He did not
know all, that He wasn’t all powerful, where He was not aware of the smallest
particle, to how each relates to the entire creation, He knows all there is.
He sustains our being, giving us life, maintaining the universe, we are
totally and completely dependent upon Him.
With one so grand in scope, our very reason for being is only with our
creator. What is God up to, why did He create this place, form us in our
mother’s wombs? Scripture teaches us that what is to come is so far
beyond us now it has not entered the heart of man, and that the suffering
in this world pales in comparison to what is to come.
So, what is man that God cares, what does he want from us?
Micah 6:8
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
His two great commands where all others rest are simply to do what?
Luke 10:27
He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
We cannot offer Him anything, we can accept what He gives, in the
rebellion of man when we fell away the desire to know good and evil in
part became our down fall. So now we choose to declare what we want
to be good and evil, regardless of what God says and has declared. Our
rebellion we set ourselves apart from God, we tell Him what is good and
evil, we tell Him what we find is acceptable behavior from Him, even
though He is sovereign we consider Him someone to oppose and resist,
or take His grace by admitting to our sins and turning from them so we
can say yes Lord, your will be done.
For one who is eternal, who doesn’t change, who made all things not
Himself, who sustains it all by the power of His Word, He does not need
anything from us. We on the other hand are totally and completely
dependent upon Him, there is nothing we can do to add to Him. We
cannot give to Him anything He hasn’t made, if He wanted more of
anything He could just make it. He gives us our being, He setup the
universe we live in and keeps it running in a somewhat predictable
manner. So, what could we do to obligate God to do what we want?
His ways are above our ways, since He is eternal in scope, there was
never a time where God wasn’t just as He is now, and will be, the same
yesterday, today, and forever more. There was never a time He did not
know all, that He wasn’t all powerful, where He was not aware of the smallest
particle, to how each relates to the entire creation, He knows all there is.
He sustains our being, giving us life, maintaining the universe, we are
totally and completely dependent upon Him.
With one so grand in scope, our very reason for being is only with our
creator. What is God up to, why did He create this place, form us in our
mother’s wombs? Scripture teaches us that what is to come is so far
beyond us now it has not entered the heart of man, and that the suffering
in this world pales in comparison to what is to come.
So, what is man that God cares, what does he want from us?
Micah 6:8
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
His two great commands where all others rest are simply to do what?
Luke 10:27
He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
We cannot offer Him anything, we can accept what He gives, in the
rebellion of man when we fell away the desire to know good and evil in
part became our down fall. So now we choose to declare what we want
to be good and evil, regardless of what God says and has declared. Our
rebellion we set ourselves apart from God, we tell Him what is good and
evil, we tell Him what we find is acceptable behavior from Him, even
though He is sovereign we consider Him someone to oppose and resist,
or take His grace by admitting to our sins and turning from them so we
can say yes Lord, your will be done.