Wednesday, February 8, 2012

What God Do We Serve?

What God do we serve? Some invented god of the ancient pagans, Molech or Baal? Some later invented deity of theosophy or gnosticism, some cruel god of the Mohammedans? Some god with a single witness who wrote a magic book to reveal him? The list of such men and books is quite long. No, we serve the Creator of Heaven and Earth, of all things seen and unseen, who took it upon Himself to "condescend" to lower himself to our understanding and reveal himself in history over centuries and millennia, and by countless witnesses. He is witnessed in the history of man; He spoke to us via the prophets who have spoken by His spirit from the beginning. There was never a time he was withdrawn from us! He is the God who by merely thinking out-breathed all of being and created something "existence - being" from nothing, "non-existence and non-being." He is whole, and does not need expression in existence to be whole and complete. It is this awesome power who we cannot truly know in his essence, since we are creatures of being - of creation and he is non-created, ever existing - He is beyond the capacity of human knowledge - but with whom we may, communicate and by the witness of the Psalmist and the Apostles, and our own hearts, befriend. We to not address in our prayer a later human invention, but the very power of The ALL. And the truly amazing thing is He hears, He answers and He cares. The Lord Lives! My Rock, My Fortress, My Shelter. And when we truly stand in unison with Him, He is the one who avenges evil, who subdues our enemies, who heals and saves us from the destroyer's flame. So great a God cannot be shuttered away in some man allowed "right to worship - privately as we choose - as long as we don't offend those who remain in ignorance - as long as we keep our belief locked up - private" We have compartmentalize this mighty force walled Him away in auditoriums and sanctuaries, hidden in the hearts of people grown mute, embarrassed to publicly confess, "I believe on God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible" . . . The God who holds the universes (plural) in his hand, also holds the fate of our nation in his hand and the fate of my next heartbeat, and your next heartbeat in his hand. It is TIME we broke our silence, released Him from our convenient little private chambers - It is TIME for Him on Main Street, Wall Street, K Street, and Pennsylvania Avenue.- Amen
A Christian "Pictogram" that tells the entire core of Christian Belief.  It depicts the following words.

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