Received on July 22nd, 2007 - 2:40PM Last Updated: August 5th, 2007 - 12:13PM
I continued to have a sense of the glory of God while worshiping Him with others in our congregation.
He reminded me that we often think of His greatness because of His love—even though we have sinned, He yet loves us. This reveals the glory of Yahweh.
However, He wanted us to look at the other side of this truth: His creation is so good that there is something left in us even through all of that sin that enables us to repent and come back to Him.
As He created the world, following each day He looked at what He had made and saw that it was "good." At the end, He saw that it all was "very good."
We are part of that creation! We are good, and He wants us to know that. No matter how much wrong we've done, both to ourselves and others, that good is left in us.
This is His glory, that His creation is good enough to be redeemed, to want to be redeemed, even after the effects of sin have taken hold.
Look at the story of the prodigal son. He began in glory in his father's house, but left to end up in a pigpen. Yet through all of that, there remained in him the ability to look up and come to himself, choosing to repent and return to his former position (Luke 15:11-24).
If Jesus told us that not even one sparrow falls to the ground apart from God's will, and that we are of far greater worth than many sparrows (Luke 12:6-7)... how can we not rejoice at the glory of God?
We are worthy of His redemption, because His creation is good! This is the glory of Yahweh!
God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day. (Genesis 1:31)
6"Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins{An assarion was a small copper coin worth about an hour's wages for an agricultural laborer.}? Not one of them is forgotten by God. 7But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows. (Luke 12:6-7)
28Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives of the peoples, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength! 29Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come before him. Worship Yahweh in holy array. (1 Chronicles 16:28-29)
"I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images. (Isaiah 42:8)
Discerning Yahweh
In every aspect of reality, there is some proof of the greatness and goodness of Yahweh.
Not only is His love beyond our understanding, that even while we rejected Him He chose to die for us (Romans 5:8), but so is His creative power.
What He makes is so good that it is worth redeeming no matter how far it has fallen from its original glory (Ezekiel 37:1-6).
How often can we say the same of our human inventions? We are quick to dispose of something that doesn't work as we expect or disappoints us in some way.
But Yahweh's creation—us human beings—are so inherently good that He goes to great extremes to return their damaged forms to their former glory, and beyond!
As you read this site, you will hopefully come to know Yahweh more fully.
But all of this continuing knowledge is useless unless and until you come into union with Him. I use the word union because it is truly a marriage. It is that deep connection we all seek, for which we most often look in other people. However, the truth is that our hearts will only be fulfilled when we enter that union in fullness with the One Who made us.
This is the grace of God, that He has not stayed distant for us only to worship as Creator. But He has come unto us, even become one of us—in His Son, ChristJesus—in order to share an intimate union with us. He desires such closeness that it truly will envelope our entire life, transforming us into something new and wonderful.
You may have already entered this union with Him and only seek to know Him better through reading here. But if you have not, as you do read, let this Gospel sink into your heart as you read it now.
God loves you, and has cast your sins into the sea. He has sent His only Son as the Savior of the world—that includes you.
That Son, JesusChrist, was born as a man through a virgin who had given her life to Yahweh; He lived without sin, reflected the glory of His Father, God, in all His words and deeds, and was persecuted even unto death because of it.
His death upon a cross was the powerful explosion that separated you from your life of death. It remains for you, now, to enter into that death with Him. As you die to the one you are now, a person separated from God from your many sins, you will be born anew, with a nature predisposed to live rightly. This gift is free to you, with nothing you can do to earn it. It is the mercy of God to offer it to you, as He loves you so much! All you must do is receive it by trusting Him to have delivered you. Simply place your life in His hands and embrace the freedom that came through that death on the cross.
The Gospel is that Jesus did not remain dead, but rose again on the third day after His crucifixion! Death could not hold Him, as He was without sin. And so death will not be able to hold you, as you identify with Him fully through your trust in Him. Let go of yourself and confess Him as Lord of your life. The power of His death and resurrection will work in you all that your Creator has destined for you. You will truly enter a new life and experience that intimate union you have been seeking all of your life.
So ponder these words as you read here of this great God—Yahweh—and all that He has revealed to His creation. Let His Spirit testify to your heart that these words are true, that God is Love, and that He sent His Son so that you might receive the life that is unbound by time and space. As you feel that witness in your heart, simply believe and receive what He is offering to you, even now, and begin your new life as a child of God.
Please write to me and let me know when you take this step, as I will be your brother in Christ—we will be one in Him!
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17But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger! 18I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. (Luke 15:17-18)
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