"God is seeking to speak himself out to His creation.
The whole Bible supports the idea.
God is speaking.
Not God spoke,
but God is speaking."
A.W. Tozer
And God is speaking to you and to me, right now, today. The question of course is, Are we listening? He has so many wonderful things that He wants to tell us. There are so many lessons we need to learn, truths about Himself that He wants to pass on to us. The desire of His heart is that we know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that He is Yaweh, Jehovah, the Great I am, the God of the Bible and the Lord. He wants us to understand that He is not only eternal and self-existent but self-sufficient as well. Self-sufficient in that He had no origin or beginning and He will have no end. Self-sufficient in that He possesses all things and is able to support and maintain His life without any help or assistance from anyone or anything, including you and me. When we grapple with these formidable facts and begin to understand, at least to some degree, who and what He is....we are blessed.
So why is the fact that God is self-sufficient so important? Well, to be honest until about a year ago I didn't have a clue. I had never explored the self-sufficient side of God's nature. Then I started attending an in-depth Bible study in the Book of Genesis. It took us about amonth to work our way through chapters one and two alone. The information and truths that were presented opened my eyes not only to the miracle of creation but also the Creator Himself. I started thinking about God existing before there was anything, and it humbled me. In Genesis 1:2 it states clearly,
"And the earth was formless and void,
and darkness was over the surface of the deep;
and the Spirit of God was hovering over the
surface of the waters."
Think about that for a minute. God was...hovering. Hovering meaning contemplating, preparing, looking forward to some special and awesome event. But what "event"?
Well, look at Genesis 1:26. What does it say? God says to...God,
"Let Us make man in Our image,
according to Our likeness;
and let them rule over the fist of the sea
and over the birds of the sky
and over the cattle and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
God the Father...God the Son...and the Holy Spirit got together. They had a meeting you might say and came to a cooperate and unanimous decision. A decision to...create man. And that's key. There wasn't something lacking in God's life that needed to be filled. The Godhead existed very nicely and happily before man. What that means is: God made man because He wanted man. Wanted! And when you consider that fact soberly...and reflect on how extra-ordinary that is...it changes everything.
A.W. Tozer wrote this profound statement: "We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is." And for you and I to grapple with the fact that God is self-sufficient is a good place to start. Why? Because...well, when we witness God forming man from the dust of the earth...and He breaths the breath of life into his nostrils...
when we reflect on the reality that the very same God who created Adam personally formed you and me in our mother's womb...and He did so because He wanted us...well, we are better able to see what an awesome and undeserved gift God has given us. What "gift"? The gift of life.
"What is man that Thou art mindful of him?
And the son of man, that Thou
visited him?"
Psalm 8:4
TAKING IT PERSONAL
Today meditate on the fact that God is self-sufficient and that He wanted You! Consider how that scriptural fact plays into the personal relationship you have with Him. Write down your thoughts and impressions. Thank God...let Him know how much you appreicate Him.
Until next time,
Love in Christ, Patty Clark
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