Our Unchanging God Thursday, February 07, 2008 “When you go to the people of Israel, tell them ‘I AM sent me to you.’” Exodus 3:14
Do you know anyone who goes around saying, “I am”? Neither do I. When we say “I am,” we always add another word. “I am happy.” “I am sad.” “I am strong.” “I am Max.” God, however, starkly states, “I AM” and adds nothing else.
“You are what?” we want to ask. “I AM,” he replies. God needs no descriptive word because he never changes. God is what he is. He is what he has always been. His immutability motivated the psalmist to declare, “But thou art the same” (Ps. 102:27 KJV). The writer is saying, “You are the One who is. You never change.” Yahweh is an unchanging God.
Hey all . . . sorry I haven't written, I've been SICK! Not fun, but feeling better, writing you from BED! Much love and continued prayers to all. Great pics ~k8
Freedom to Choose Monday, February 11, 2008 “We are people who have faith and are saved.” Hebrews 10:39
God honors us with the freedom to choose where we spend eternity.
And what an honor it is! In so many areas of life we have no choice. Think about it. You didn’t choose your gender. You didn’t choose your siblings. You didn’t choose your race or place of birth.
Sometimes our lack of choices angers us. “It’s not fair,” we say. It’s not fair that I was born in poverty or that I sing so poorly or that I run so slowly. But the scales of life were forever tipped on the side of fairness when God planted a tree in the Garden of Eden. All complaints were silenced when Adam and his descendants were given free will, the freedom to make whatever eternal choice we desire. Any injustice in this like offset by the honor of choosing our destiny in the next.
Hey all! Getting ready to leave for Haiti and a medical mission. Will be leaving on Saturday . . . But in the meantime, much love, and continued prayers for all. K8
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Our Unchanging God
Thursday, February 07, 2008
“When you go to the people of Israel, tell them ‘I AM sent me to you.’”
Exodus 3:14
Do you know anyone who goes around saying, “I am”? Neither do I. When we say “I am,” we always add another word. “I am happy.” “I am sad.” “I am strong.” “I am Max.” God, however, starkly states, “I AM” and adds nothing else.
“You are what?” we want to ask. “I AM,” he replies. God needs no descriptive word because he never changes. God is what he is. He is what he has always been. His immutability motivated the psalmist to declare, “But thou art the same” (Ps. 102:27 KJV). The writer is saying, “You are the One who is. You never change.” Yahweh is an unchanging God.
Hey all . . . sorry I haven't written, I've been SICK! Not fun, but feeling better, writing you from BED! Much love and continued prayers to all. Great pics ~k8
Freedom to Choose
Monday, February 11, 2008
“We are people who have faith and are saved.”
Hebrews 10:39
God honors us with the freedom to choose where we spend eternity.
And what an honor it is! In so many areas of life we have no choice. Think about it. You didn’t choose your gender. You didn’t choose your siblings. You didn’t choose your race or place of birth.
Sometimes our lack of choices angers us. “It’s not fair,” we say. It’s not fair that I was born in poverty or that I sing so poorly or that I run so slowly. But the scales of life were forever tipped on the side of fairness when God planted a tree in the Garden of Eden. All complaints were silenced when Adam and his descendants were given free will, the freedom to make whatever eternal choice we desire. Any injustice in this like offset by the honor of choosing our destiny in the next.
Hey all! Getting ready to leave for Haiti and a medical mission. Will be leaving on Saturday . . .
But in the meantime, much love, and continued prayers for all.
K8
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