To Display God’s Character and God’s Attributes

Many people tend to think, especially today, that the “universe” revolves around them.  It does not.  The “universe” revolves around God.  Everything is about God and for God. So important it is to understand that our Triune God (Father-The Creative Mind, Son-The Living Word, and Holy Spirit-The Powerful Movement of the Father and Son) created the universe, the earth and all living creatures including man for His glory.  For God’s glory alone, not for man’s glory.  We were created for the purpose of reflecting His glory.

God created all things and sustains His creation

to display His character and His attributes.

My computer’s thesaurus lists these descriptive words: credit, praise, magnificence, majesty, brilliance, wonder, splendor, beauty, grandeur, radiance, triumph, success and admiration when the word glory is explored.

Stop for a moment. Please pause.  Think about how much we (God’s created beings) diminish the glory that is rightly God’s and how much we dishonor Him when we accept man’s theories and go about doctoring up God’s Word attempting to somehow stuff into it fallible theories to accommodate man’s creative idea of millions / billions of years in order to accommodate man’s creative theory of macroevolution. 

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because thou has rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me seeing thou has forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” Hosea 4:6 (KJV)

The Holy Spirit has been drawing my attention to the above scripture passage for several weeks.  The first part of the verse, “my people perish for lack of knowledge” I have often pondered upon.  But, the remainder of the verse I had not heard or been drawn to until recently.  This scripture passage has been put in front of me in different ways through several sources.  I find the depth of meaning associated with this passage sobering to reflect on.

Thou has rejected knowledge.”
In numerous ways, Christians compromise the Word of God.  By not fully trusting and believing without doubt the Living Word of God, we literally are rejecting God’s knowledge.  Concerning the topic of the account of Creation that is being discussed, many have rejected the knowledge of God and replaced it with the knowledge (foolishness) of man.  

Theories, such as the gap theory, day-age theory, theistic evolution, etc., were introduced in an attempt to accommodate macroevolution and millions / billions of years.  The Holy Bible, God’s Word stands alone as written and inspired by God. It does not need second thoughts or any tinkering.  The Living Word of God is absolute authority and truth beginning with the very first verse in Genesis through the very last verse of Revelation.

“I will also reject thee…I will also forget thy children.” 

God gave man free will and God introduced His universal principle of sowing and reaping in the book of Genesis.  This principle is always at work.  After the worldwide flood and after God dispersed the people into different language groups and nationalities at the Tower of Babel, God chose Abraham to be the father of the nation of Israel and made the Jewish people His chosen people.  He did this as part of His eternal plan.  The Jewish people were chosen to preserve the Word of God and to bring forth through their lineage Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.  The rest of the nations (the Gentiles) rejecting God and wanting to do things their own way, were given over to do just that.  They had to reap the consequences of what had been sown out of arrogance and their self-centered ways. They rejected the one true God and His ways.  Therefore, they and their children (the Gentiles) were separated from God until the death and resurrection of Jesus.   At that point in history, those who have since turned in faith to Jesus have become like branches grafted into the olive tree whose root is Abraham the righteous man chosen to be the father of all children of God, all who belong to God through Jesus Christ, both Jews and Gentiles.

There are a number of scripture passages that tell us God will give man over to his own will and his own desires.  Consequences must always follow man when man’s will and self-centered ways are contrary to God’s Will and Ways.

Think about society today.  Think about what is happening to our children and our grandchildren.  It is time to quit compromising, to quit rejecting the truth of the Living Word of God and its teachings before it becomes eternally too late!