Saturday 25 January 2020

God

God
The Prophet Isaiah writes,
"Do you not know? 
Have you not heard?
 The Lord is everlasting God, 
the Creator of the ends of the earth. 
He will not grow tiered or weary,
 and his understanding no one can fathom.”
                                                              Isaiah 40:28.
God exists I have no doubt about that. And frankly I don’t debate His existence or that He created the universe and everything in it.
The Psalmist writes,
"The heavens declare the glory of God; 
the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 
Day after day they pour forth speech; 
night after night they display knowledge. 
There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard." 
                                                                                             Psalm 19:1-3
For me it doesn’t make any difference if God made the heavens in six twenty-four hour days or started it all with the big bang and let it develop over billions of years. The numbers mean nothing. God is almighty and could have done it either way.
The fact however that the Earth is in the perfect position in the universe to sustain life as we know it tells me there is a Creator God behind it all.
Still the Bible is a book of faith not science and we must always remember that.
Galileo Galilei said,
“The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, 
not the way the heavens go.”
                                       Galileo Galilei.
He is right. The purpose of the Bible is to show people how to get to heaven. The writers of the Bible were believers and accepted by faith, without question the existence of God.
The apostle John writes,
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  
He was with God in the beginning. 
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  
In him was life, and that life was the light of men....
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. " John 1:1-4,14.
What John here is asking those who believe in God (or for that matter those who do not believe in God) is to, by faith, believe that the God who created the universe and everything in it, entered it in the form of His one and Only Son Jesus Christ. Who’s purpose was and still is today to offer forgiveness of sin and eternal life.
Jesus speaking of himself said,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son”. John 3:16-18
Thus my question to you the reader; Do you believe in God? Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God the Saviour of Mankind?
Please think about it.

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