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God the Father
Isaiah describes the greatness of God’s love by telling us that it exceeds the love of a mother for her child.
Is 49:15
Snow Queen, a huge polar bear, gave birth to two small cubs.
The mother let the cubs, after their eyes were open, from their snow den to the sea.
Here she taught them how to catch fish, seal, and walrus.
Nearby, an icebreaker was frozen fast, locked in ice.
One man, camouflaged in fur, decided to spear seal.
Snow Queen saw only his back as he sat near a breathing hole.
Thinking he was an animal, she and her cubs crawled on their stomachs, making a zigzag trail so as not to startle their prey.
Just as the bears were ready to pounce, a seal came by.
As the man jumped up with his spear in the air, he saw the bears.
Dropping his spear, he ran for his life over the ice to the ship.
For days after that the men watched the bears through their telescope.
One day they killed a walrus for their dogs.
Smelling the walrus blubber, the bears crept close.
Taking their guns, the men climbed into a small boat to go after the bears.
Snow Queen dived into the sea and swam with her cubs from one ice flow to another.
But the cubs soon tired.
Pushing them, urging them, Snow Queen finally covered them with her body as they rested on the ice.
At the sound of the enemy’s gun, she reared up on her hind legs and uttered a terrible growl.
Then with a pitiful moan, down she came, covering her cubs with her strong arms.
With her last bit of strength, she licked their little black noses and then gently pushed them into the water out of harm’s reach.
Wonderful mother love that didn’t forget her babies!
“With untold love our God has loved us, and our love awakens toward Him as we comprehend something of the length and breadth and depth and height of that love that passeth knowledge” (EGW, Mount of Blessing, p.76)
Preview
Satan has succeeded in creating a distorted portrait of God in the minds of people.
Many picture God to be like themselves-selfish, exacting, dictatorial, cruel, vengeful, slow to forgive , and quick to punish.
Because God’s character has been misunderstood and misinterpreted, Jesus came to this earth to show the world what God is like.
His daily life is an example of rus to follow, so that we, too, can give the world a true picture of God’s character.
By our lives, others will glorify God the Father.
Does your face, your life, dispel the darkness of Stan’s lies about God? Do you shed the light of His glory, His goodness, mercy, and truth?
Are you echoing the praise of God so that everyone you meet will understand a little better the greatness of His love?
Do you love to speak of Hi s wondrous works for and in you?
These ideas go through my brain every morning on my way to work.
Am I being the best representation of God I can be, will people see God in me today?
Sadly I fall short so many times.
We are held accountable for the image we project, but I praise God for His mercy and that if I am willing He will continue to perfect my character.
Points to Ponder
Does the Bible distinguish between God the Father and God the Son?
The Old Testament alludes to such distinction, but the New Testament speaks clearly of the Father and the Son.
God sent the Son (Jn 3:16)
God the Son in the Creator (Heb 1:2, Jn 1:1-3, 14)
Christ also lead Isreal out of Egypt: (1 Cor 10:4)
The Bible also speaks of the close relationship between the Father and the Son: (2 Cor 5:19)
2. What beautiful picture did God Himself give to Moses in Exodus 34:6-7?
3. Do you see the blend of God’s mercy and forgiveness with His Justice?
The Old Testament is filled with promises of God’s forgiveness.
(Micah 7:19)
The Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean is 35,800 feet - or more than six and a half miles deep.
If Mt.
Everest, the highest mountain in the world, were sunk into this deep area, more than a mile of sea water would cover it.
Six miles down, the ocean pressure is six tons per square inch, or 600 times as great as it is at sea level.
God says He will put all of our sins a the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Six mile down is were are sins will be.
Pretty much all gone wouldn’t you say?
Our God is wonderfully forgiving and compassionate!
There is no limit to God’s forgiving love.
Nuts & Bolts
Lets go to the Bible again and find out what it tells us of God Himself and how it describes Him to us.
1. God the Father is so great, so marvelous, and so infinite that our feeble minds cannot comprehend His glory.
Can we understand what it is to be without having any beginning or even more never having an ending.
We understand we only have so much time on this earth.
We may not like it, but it is our reality.
The Bible tells us we can not understand the depth of his thought or comprehend his knowledge.
He wants to guide and direct our lives, why do we have such a hard time letting Him do it?
Our lives would be so much more rewarding if we would wait for His direction.
2. God is a covenant God - one who keeps His promises.
I like that, God can be trusted to keep his promises.
He never changes and He never fails.
Our lives may not go in the direction we thought or that we wanted, but it will be for our best good, if we let Him keep His promises to us.
3. God is our refuge and strength
David was all about strength wasn’t he.
But he had to be, because their very lives depended on the strengths they could create.
The walls around their cities, the strength of the armies that defended them and so on.
Where does strength come from.
You might say muscles and structures and the like, but unless we believe in these physical things they mean nothing.
If we don’t have faith in them, we might as well not have them at all.
Were did David get his strength?
Look at the verse again.
The Lord is my rock, my fortress, my stronghold.
If He is all these things, can He handle our affairs?
He can and He will if.... we let Him and guide in our lives and take the reigns ourselves.
4. God is the Redeemer involved in all of our affairs.
Here is one of the promises we talked about.
We will not fall from His presence.
We will make it through to the end of this world and be able to stand in His presence in front of His throne.
Let’s look at some of the other promises.
5. God is a God of goodness
6. God is God of faithfulness and unconditional love.
7. God is a God of both salvation and vengeance
or in the NET version it reads
8. God is our Father both by creation and redemption
Have you ever considered the lovely treetop gardens in the rain forests?
From the ground up to about forty feet in the jungle, you seldom see flowers.
But look heavenward!
High up, where there’s sunlight, God has planted a world of color in lovely air plants, or epiphytes.
Many have short stems surrounded by a rosette of leaves that overlap to form watertight cups.
Rainwater, dead leaves, flowers, and animal matter fall into these plant tanks.
Broken down by microorganisms, they provide mineral nutrients that the plants absorb.
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