God is Personal

God is Personal "The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.'" Jeremiah 1:4-5 _____ In this passage God comes to Jeremiah because...because God has a job He wants Jeremiah to do. But I like the way, first, before getting into the details of Jeremiah's job description, Jehovah starts their conversation on a personal note, with a tender word of encouragement. Now I know that these words were originally spoken to Jeremiah thousands of years ago, but what they tell us about God...how He feels and how He deals with His children...these lessons are timeless and as applicable today as they were O-so long ago. Above and beyond anything else, miracle-of-miracles, God knew us before we were conceived or even born. He, personally, created us...and formed us in our mother's womb. Our birth was no accident anymore than our lives are a by-product of evolution. God decided He wanted us. God decided who and what we would be and personally hand-picked the talents, abilities, strengths and even the weaknesses that we would have and chose us...sanctified us...set us apart so that in the fullness of His time, by His grace, we would believe in His Son and belong to Him for all eternity. What's more He has a job for us to do, just like He had a job for Jeremiah to do. O we may not be prophets. We probably won't be, not in the Biblical sense. But God has prepared a good work for each one of us to do and has equipped us...given us everything we need to accomplish that task for His pleasure and glory (Ephesians 2:8-10). The point is...? God, our God, is a communicative God. He doesn't breath the breath of life into our nostrils and give us the precious gift of life and then turn away and leave us to go-it-alone. He doesn't save our souls...and after speaking the truth and filling us with the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ...all of a sudden become disengaged, disinterested, and silent. Life is all about fellowship , sharing life with God, inter-course between God and you...and God and me, or at least it is supposed to be. You see God is ever-present and always will be with us. His Spirit dwells within all those who believe. You can't get any closer or more present and personal than that. It is totally illogical to think after learning all of that about Him, that, for some reason, in this particular dispensation, that He God, now chooses to be silent. If anything, given the personal and universal mess we're in as members of the human race, God's speaking words of truth into our minds, whispering words of light and life into our hearts...and speaking words of power and courage into our over-worked, overwhelmed, and oppressed souls...is more important now than ever before. God speaks! He has so many important truths He wants to tell us. But...the question is are we wise enough to listen to Him? Love in Christ, Patty Clark In all matters let us always turn to and listen to that One and only sacred source. fenelon

God is All Powerful

God Is All-Powerful

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"For He Spoke, and it was done;

He commanded, and it stood fast."

Psalm 33:9

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God spoke the world into being. But did He speak in a...divine whisper? Or a reverberating shout? In the beginning there was nothing. Then the Lord uttered, "Let there be..." and, like the purest and most God-glorifying form of magic, there was a sun...the moon and the stars...the water and land and firmament...the birds in the air, fish in the sea, beasts in the fields...and Man! In the very first chapter of the Bible we learn that God communicates. He did. He does. And He always will. Don't let anyone, anywhere, tell you otherwise.

There is a lot to be said about the power of words, especially when those words originate with and come forth from the mind and heart of God. The Word of God carries with it the hope of glory and has the power to save a soul and set all who are held captive free. The Word of God tells us the truth about the holy One of Israel, our God. The Word encourages and unites, fills us with the riches of all wisdom and understanding and whether the Word is read...or It echoes down the corridors of our minds...or the Holy Spirit whispers it into the depth of our souls, communicating it is some personal and intimate way, after seeing it with our eyes, or reflecting on it with our midns, or embracing it in our hearts...we will know and understand Jesus better for having been touched by It. For it is in the Word of our God that the true treasures of life are found.

God can do more...accomplish in and through us more than we can ever imagine...via the supernatural and transforming power of His Word. From that one thing, God's Word, all things worth having come. I like what Paul wrote in Ephesians 3:20-21,

"Now to Him who is able to do

exceeding abundantly beyond all that

we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,

to Him be the glory in the church

and in Christ Jesus to all generations

forever and ever. Amen."
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And it is the power of the Word, Jesus, who came to earth in human form...and the power of His Spirit working in us...taking the words of truth and teaching them to us and applying them in our lives...that is what transforms our lives into the miracle He intended them to be. It is not self-effort, it is God...as He communicates with us in tender and loving words of truth...that changes our minds, improves the condition of our hearts, and completely renovates the spirit within.

Happy indeed those ears that listen

not to the voice outside

but to the Truth inside.

Thomas a' Kempis

May God bless you until next time.

Love in Christ, Patty Clark