Who Is God?

“So I kneel humbly in awe before the Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, the perfect Father of every father and child in heaven and on the earth.”-EPHESIANS 3:14-15, THE PASSION TRANSLATION

When you realize how much He loves you.

When you receive the truth that He knows you, loves you and has chosen you.

When you know that nothing separates you from Him, not even your own sin.

When you enter into His arms and allow Him to embrace you.

You can’t help but fall to your knees in awe.

Who is God?

He is a father.

The perfect Father of every father and child in heaven and on earth.

Who are you? 

His beloved child, invited into an eternal relationship with Him beginning now.

Sustained

Sustain me, my God, according to your promise, and I will live; do not let my hopes be dashed.” Psalm 119:116 NIV

I remember a time a few years ago when I was discouraged and heartbroken.

We were living in Las Vegas and my neighborhood edged the desert by the Red Rock. One morning I got up early and took a walk. With worship music loaded on my iPod, I set out to pray and breathe in the presence of God.

As I turned the corner out of my neighborhood and onto the desert road behind it the song “Great is Thy Faithfulness” began. The sun was just rising over Red Rock Canyon and it was so beautiful that I almost dropped to my knees.  I heard God’s whisper in my heart, “Hold on. Your hopes are not lost. I am faithful to complete what I have started in you. I will sustain you through this and strengthen you in it. My faithfulness knows no end.”

It was a turning point for me. I carried that promise through a time that got harder long before it got better.

Hold on, my friend, your hopes are not lost. 

Jesus is faithful to complete what He started in you. 

He will sustain you and strengthen you in it. 

God’s faithfulness knows no end.

Is

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God IS with you.

He is the commander of the angel armies with the world at his feet and he is with you.

Present tense.

He does not reside in the past, however wonderful or horrible yours was.

He does not jump ahead to the future unknowables and wonderings (what will happen?)

He is here.
Now.
With you right where you are.

The Lord of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah (Psalms 46:11 NKJV)

No wonder there is a “selah” mark at the end of the Psalm, which means “pause and think about it”.

Take moment, an hour or the whole day and think about the reality that God IS with us.

Selah.