This God!

Thus God!

For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. Psalms 100:5 NIV

The Context and Focus:

The entire chapter from where today's verse is taken is a celebration and declaration of God. The entire chapter invites the whole earth to come before the Lord in total reverence, and to praise and worship Him for who He is, what He is, what He has done, and the mighty things he has done in the earth and even beyond the realm of our senses and reasoning. There is a need to know this God, because in that knowledge lies the grace and help required to praise Him the right way. Who is this God, and why does He deserve to be praised and celebrated this way? If we focus on the chapter from where today's verse is taken, we read words like: 'it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture'. That is an acknowledgement of our source or origin, which then defines our focus and impact. If I know who and whose I am, I will not be fooled or distracted by another man's opinions. After all, created things answer to the defined purpose of the creator, and a Television can never serve as an oven, no matter how hard the owner tries to apply it. 

The Message:

This is the God who created the heavens and the earth, and till today, man is still discovering new things about the earth in which he has been planted. Interestingly, man is made the chief of all that God has made; the same man who finds new ways to annoy God and destroy his creation. Yet, in all of these, God continues to shower his love and affection on man, because His heart just will not let man go. It was only about man that it was recorded that God created in his own image, and after his likeness, and then gave him dominion. The authority that God had when he spoke the earth into existence is also given to man. The same creative word-power is ours to use, being conscious of who and whose we are. Even with sin, he has not changed his mind about us. Sin may have brought distance between us and God, but his love is still there, waiting for us to repent and return to Him. The Lord is presented to us as good, and it is in His goodness that he tells us that the wages of sin is death, but His free gift is eternal life. His love defines what I get, and it is NOT His will that I should perish. 

The Conclusion:

In that understanding, I make the approach to the throne of God's grace. I know that God's love is such that endures; not like man that wants something first, before showing conditional love. God showed his love first, in the hope that we will see, know, appreciate and then come to Him. No matter the present circumstances, or the generation or dispensation you want to consider, the love of God is manifest. The fact that we have not been destroyed is a testament to the love of God. The fact that we have opportunities to repent and return to God, even after we fall several times, is testament to the amazing love of God. He is dependable and reliable, because the same standards he applied to men like Abraham, and women like Elizabeth, is the same standard he demands from me in this generation. The truths of His kingdom have remained the same through all the ages of men, and they remain the same until the new heaven and earth are in place. This level of predictability is a bit scary, because it means that no amount of education, earnings, enlightenment, energy or exposure can change God's mind on the principles of His kingdom. I owe it to my eternal security to know and follow this God. He deserves all my praise. God's time of favour is here.