God is THE GOD OF EVERYTHING.
God is The God of science. He is
Jehovah-Bara, Creator God.
He created the universe and everything
in it in 3 days: Genesis 1:1-8, 14-19. In between those 3 days He
took the time to create land and seas, separating the seas below from
the waters above. Check Genesis 1:9-13 for verification. On that day
God also spoke into existence grasses, herbs, fruit trees and gave
them all the ability to reproduce themselves.
He created in the seas upon the earth
and called into existence life within them. He created skies and
called the birds of the air to take flight into the skies. Each of
these was also given the ability to reproduce its own kind. In one
day this was done.
God created all species of land
animals: the beasts, the cattle, the creepers. And each of these was
called to multiply and reproduce itself.
Then God created man and set him in
this beautiful place which He had created with the help of His Son
and The Holy Spirit (Genesis 1:1-2, 26; 2:1). After this, God rested,
for He had done much work in such a short period of time. And, also,
to show us that after we have worked we need to rest in Him. We are
given an example by Him to rest in His presence, that our energies
may be restored. How sweet our God is!
Science is a simple word that covers a
multitude of categories, some of which are: astronomy, biology,
radiology, chemistry, agriculture, animal husbandry, pharmacology,
botany, and mathematics. Which brings us to the next statement: GOD
is The God of Mathematics. He created the atom and all the subatomic
particles, which are protons, electrons and neutrons. God tells us
what things are and shows us what things are made of. But does He get
the glory for this? Seldom, if ever, is the right answer. Many times
men and women of science and mathematics and any category we could
name, take credit for the knowledge they have received through their
perseverance and endurance to determine what is and what is not. But
God Is Omniscient. He knows EVERYTHING. And He shares what He knows
with us, especially if said knowledge serves His purpose.
God is God. His heart is to see all
mankind saved. His will is to see all mankind saved. Once saved, we
undergo a sanctification process via The Holy Spirit. While we
undergo this refining and purification, we begin to change into the
person God sees us as. It is the holiness process. For God has said
to us, “Be holy for I am holy”; knowing that without holiness no
one can see The Lord God. So begins the change in us, transforming us
from unrighteousness to righteousness. No longer are we the servants
of sin, but now we are the servants of God. His purpose is being
fulfilled in us, as it could be in you.
You see us and wonder why we don't
behave like you do. You question our habits and our faithfulness to
the things of God. What God has cleansed us of, we no longer have a
desire for. It is not that we can't do the things we used to do, we
just don't want to do them any more. The stronger our desire is for
God and the ways of God, the less we want to be like the world around
us. We do not wish to conform to the norm: we stand out from the
crowds because we are Christians. We are Christ-like because this
holiness process is also making us more like Jesus: more loving, more
forgiving, more bold, more gentle, more pure and self-sacrificing.
What makes a Christian tick is the
unconditional love of God through Jesus Christ into this world. We
are called by God to be different but not alone, to be strange but
not creepy, to be humble but not weak, to be bold but not aggressive.
God calls us to holiness but not self-righteousness. For it is the
selfishness of the heart that separates a person from God. It is
self-centeredness thinking that ignores God's voice calling a person
to repentance and salvation. Selfishness and self-centeredness is
what turned Lucifer, God's beautiful musical angel, against God,
thereby causing war in heaven.
The result of that was that God threw
him out of heaven down to earth, where he became the prince of the
air, the ruler of the darkness of night, spiritual wickedness in high
places. What he could not accomplish in heaven he is trying to
succeed in here. He still has the abilities he was created with. He
can make music and use it to lure people away from God's Word. He
knows the Scriptures better than many of us and attempts to use them
against us. He twists God's Word for his own purpose: to capture more
souls and take them into hell with him for eternity.
Satan is a master of deception: what
you see is not what you get. Not everything is as it appears to be.
It is not what it is, but it is what it is not. Though this angel was
created beautiful, his beauty is marred by his evil. He is a
caricature of the creature God created him to be. His light is dark,
but by manipulating what God has created he is able to draw people to
him, where he captures them and binds them with sinful activities,
which could be anything from gaming to murder; from lying to robbery;
from casual sex to a whoring heart. Satan knows how to please people
and entertain them long enough to get them hooked on the bait, before
he reveals his true self when it is nearly too late. Alas, for some
it has already been too late.
But Jesus death and resurrection breaks
the bonds of sin which the devil, Satan/Lucifer, ties people down
with. Jesus died to save a wretch like me. Grace is amazing, isn't
it? God's plan of salvation began in Genesis 1:1 and ended in John
19:30 when Jesus said, “It is finished”. While the plan of
salvation is finished, the purpose of salvation is not. You and you
and you and you and yes, you, need Jesus as The Lord and Savior of
your life and your soul.
The phrase “You shall know the truth
and the truth shall make you free” is not from Hollywood; it is
God's Word to us, as written in John 8:32. Jesus is Truth: John 14:6.
He makes us free: Isaiah 61:1 revealed in Luke 4:18-21; 2 Corinthians
3:17.
We do not make ourselves free of the
desires to sin. We can try self-help programs to get away from the
sinful activities, but only Jesus Christ can remove the desire to sin
from the heart of the sinner.
The first step is to admit you are a
sinner, that you have sinned against God and God's Word.
The second is to repent of your sins
against God to God. Repent means to confess and to turn away from.
The third step is to receive Jesus
Christ, God's only begotten Son, into your heart.
--These steps are done together,
sometimes simultaneously depending on the person's decision to
believe--
The fourth step, after surrendering
your heart to Christ, is to submit yourself to God and make yourself
available to His service, which of course begins with the holiness
process, as stated above.
The fifth step is to continue and not
give up; to endure without complaint; to go through and not turn back
to the sinful nature you left behind.
The sixth step is to cross the finish
line.
Perhaps there are other steps
in-between the 4th and the 6th, but I just
simplified it somewhat. God's plan of salvation is a success. God's
purposes, however, are still being revealed, still being fulfilled.
There is much more to this than we know, or even could presume to
know. However, I will still believe that God is on the throne, that
He is Supreme over all others, that He knows what He is doing and
that He will succeed in His purposes for this world. I trust Him to
know what is best for me. Do you trust Him with your heart? With your
life? I do.
