My continual prayer is for growing holy fear, deepening reverential awe, more wonder and adoration-filled worship. I have been startled by some of the thoughts that are coming to me. For some of them, I have little or no understanding but I do not have the slightest difficulty in believing them. The things I have put in the form of a question may not have an answer I can grasp but perhaps gain some further insight from the Holy Spirit.
In the beginning of no beginning – God. There was no beginning for God. That is beyond my comprehension as my mind travels through eons of worlds and times and creations. But I can sort of understand the reason for it because if God had a beginning – there would be no beginning for anyone or anything else. God without beginning is the BEGINNER of everything. We know that God does nothing without good purpose, so do you ever wonder about dinosaurs and what or who populated former worlds? I wonder how a God Who existed, before anything existed until He created it, could be a God Who is love (1 John 4:16). How could that be? It would not come to be because there was no beginning to the God Who is Love.
A mother’s love is the most selfless human love we know but it pales into insignificance before the incomparable love of God which embraces every human in all time. Because He knows everything, God can plan for anything and His plan involved breaking His own heart because (Ephesians 2:4) of the great love wherewith He loved us.
I could never explain or understand the holy Trinity. The few examples I’ve heard which attempt to give some idea of the Triune Godhead fall far short. There is nothing anywhere in the slightest degree which would even remotely make clear what is in the secret things (Deuteronomy 29:29) which belong only to God. However that does not prevent us from exploring the sacred wonders of the Triune Godhead with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. I am thrilled by the wisdom – beauty – holiness of the Divine Trinity. Whatever it may be – God the Father plans, God the Son performs and God the Holy Spirit is the power. I am enthralled by their perfect loving unity in the bond of peace. Jesus said (John 14:6) I am the Truth. Then He said (John 15:26) the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth. Why does the Holy Spirit speak of Jesus? These two verses reveal that He is the very Spirit of Jesus. I am so thankful that the One True God exists in 3 Persons because all 3 are needed and precious for the fulfillment and purpose of God in my life. Not just my life of course. The Divine Strategy operates everywhere – always – and Sovereign Wisdom rules (Psalms 103:19) over all. For me personally – it is NOT Jesus up in heaven sending down peace, joy etc. It is the Holy Spirit of Jesus living the very Life of Jesus in and through me. Without Jesus I have absolutely nothing but because of Christ in me (Colossians 1:27) I have everything. The gifts and blessings of Jesus never come apart from Himself.
Dr. A.W. Tozer – “God will be ALL or He will be nothing”.
If I give a gift to someone of course it will cost me something. God gave each human, a gift which cost Him everything. As much as I’ve thought and said about it – do I even begin to grasp the grandeur and the horror of free will choice?
Unto us (Isaiah 9:6) a Child is born – the human Man Jesus and unto us a Son is given – the eternal Son of God.
Have we ever taken time to realize that if there had been no sin, there would have been no Jesus. God knew everything that Adam and Eve would do before He created them. I know that God wanted a relationship based on loving, free-will choice but I see more. I see the mystery of horror and glory and it’s so painful to unite them. Listen – ponder – meditate – worship.
God so loved the world that He created one special virgin – born human Who was the object of God’s love and would be made the loathsome object of God’s intense hatred and unrelenting fury of His wrath. This sounds almost like blasphemy but it’s not. It’s a depth and quality of love which I cannot fully probe.
Will this affect the way I exercise my free-will choices and consider my conduct. Will I live out the Love of the indwelling God Who is Love? Will self-consideration make me careless about my relationship with the glorious God-Man, Who offers sweet intimacy with Himself? Intimacy with Jesus is the greatest, richest treasure in all the world. A little love song I wrote to Jesus –
Jesus my heart’s dearest treasure,
You taught my sad heart to sing.
Jesus my reason for living,
Jesus my everything.
A verse has captivated my thoughts for several days (John 15:26 Amplified Bible). “But when the Comforter (Counsellor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Standby) comes, Whom I will send from the Father, the Spirit of Truth Who comes (proceeds) from the Father, He (Himself) will testify regarding Me”.
It was the human Man Jesus Who said He would send God the Holy Spirit to us, at the Last Supper, less than 24 hours before He was cursed and brutally tortured and crucified. How did this Man have such authority with God? All authority (Matthew 28:18) is given unto Me. Why? Not because He was God – though God He was and is. Because this MAN fully and perfectly accomplished what He, as (part of the Godhead) had planned before the foundation of the world. Such thoughts (PS.139:6) are too wonderful and high for me. But I want deeper insight into the knowledge of God and the Love of God. When Jesus described the attributes of the Holy Spirit, they include everything I need from Him, my Teacher and Source of Power, to live in resurrection victory.
I trust that these thoughts will expand and blossom to full-bloom in me as I tremble before the Lord and worship Him in loving, joyful confidence. I know that only the Holy Spirit can release in me the victorious abundant Life of Jesus Christ, Who lives in me and which I am totally incapable of living. That’s why He indwells us and we are filled with the Spirit at salvation. But have I allowed Him to fill every part of me with Himself? If not – I’ll be an up and down, yo-yo – roller coaster Christian with no victory and no joy.
Is not your fervent fear of God (Job 4:6) your confidence and hope? If we are beholding the beauty of the Lord (Psalms 27:4) and learning of Him – the temptations of the flesh and the allurements of the world will lose their appeal. Then we will ascribe to the Lord (1 Chronicles 16:29) the glory due His Name – we will bring a continual offering (Romans 12:1-2) of self-surrender and worship to the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Then we can confidently pray that (Psalms 90:17) the beauty of our God would be upon us.