In my personal devotional time with the Lord, I often reflect on certain Scriptures that can propel me into an awe of the greatness and the majesty of our God. Bible verses, that, when I pray and study Scripture, causes me to approach the Lord with great honor and respect. Not that there aren’t times when you can get before the Lord and not be so serious. I truly believe that God has a sense of humor and enjoys when we just come before Him just to talk to Him, share our hearts and maybe even be silly in His Presence every so often.
I had a friend once who told me that there were times when he spent his personal time with the Lord just telling Him jokes! But he met God in those times of telling Him jokes! (clean jokes of course)
To some, they would not be able to fathom something like my friend’s approach. Some would think it would be offensive or just not a proper way to approach the Lord. But my friend didn’t think so (in fact, he rather believed that God found his jokes “funny”!) Regardless of whether we tell God jokes or not, we should all have the liberty to approach Him in prayer without fear of being rejected and the freedom to express our hearts toward Him knowing that He loves us and cares deeply for each of us.
But getting back to what I said earlier, concerning certain Scripture verses that I choose to biblically meditate on that cause me to be in awe of God, one of those is in the book of Exodus. When God revealed Himself to Moses through the burning bush and was sending him back to deliver the children of Israel out of Egypt, Moses asked the Lord who shall I say is sending him? And God responded in Exodus 3:14: “And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ “Another translation, the Amplified Classic Bible has the Lord’s response as “I AM Who I Am and What I Am and I will Be What I Will Be”. What does all this mean?
God was revealing who He was to Moses, declaring His self-existent, eternal nature; the One who is all sufficient, existing outside of time and space and who dwells in eternity (Isaiah 57:15). This is simply mind blowing! What’s even more amazing is Psalms 90:2 which says, “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world,even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.”
Wow! From everlasting to everlasting, He is God! That means that God never had a beginning and will never have an end. My natural, finite, limited mind cannot even fathom that! These are the things that cause me to simply be in awe of God and who He is. It also causes me to maintain a hunger to continually seek to know Him through prayer and through the study of Scripture.
But what’s even more mind-blowing is that this same, eternal God loved us so much, that He took on the form of flesh, and visited us in the Person of Jesus Christ. When his fallen and faltering creation fell in the Garden of Eden, severing our relationship with Him, God had a plan to restore us so that we can fulfill a desire of His heart as well as fill the empty hole that is in the heart of every human being, even if they don’t realize it. And that is to bring us back into a relationship with Himself. And this Jesus Christ accomplished. John 3:16 famously says “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
If we want to know what this eternal God is like, all we have to do is look at the life of Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God. The 2nd person of the Eternal Godhead, or the “Trinity” as we know it, came to show us just what God the Father was like (John 14:9; Hebrews 1:3); He was and is the visible expression of the invisible God Colossians 1:15). And what love, that He would die on the cross of calvary, shedding His blood to atone for our sins, then rise again from the dead securing a place for whoever calls on His name to be saved, restored to fellowship with the Father and not perish, but have eternal life.
We are going to need to live forever because, truth be told, we will never learn everything there is to know about God. That itself will take all of eternity! So, my prayer is that all of us who are Christians to be in awe of the One who created us, came down and lived among us, fully God yet in the form of a man and paid the ultimate price for our salvation and restoration of our relationship to the Father.
God Bless!
