Friday, June 24, 2011

FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD

Good Morning Everyone:

I'm always amazed at what God our Father knows, to tell you the truth he does always knows more than I will ever know. So for today's post I want to look at the Knowledge of God.

In Nelson's 3in1 Bible Reference there are two words that I want to look at the first is Foreknown: To know ahead of time. The second word is Foreknowledge of God: God's knowledge projected into the future.

We all know that God knows what's going to happen before it happen's, and for some reason he lets it happen. He lets it happen for different reasons, sometimes its to teach us a lesson that he's always there when we need his help.

I want to look at Genesis 3: 7-13, which is 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?" 10 And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself." 11 He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" 12 The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate." 13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

I want to look at this Bible verse for a minute. In it God calls out to find out where Adam and Eve where to be found. Whey do you think he did this, he did this not because he didn't know where they where he always knew where they where and what they did. No God wanted Adam and Eve to admit that they did wrong, but we all know that God knew this ahead of time. This is how God works with us, he knows us inside and out but he still Loves us.

Until latter May God Bless this day.

Monday, June 6, 2011

FAITHFULNESS GOD

Good Morning:

I would like to look at Psalm 89:33 which reads "but I will not remove from him my steadfast love or be false to my faithfulness." YourDictionary.com gives the definition for faithfulness as "Faithfulness or devotion to a person, a cause, obligations, or duties:" One of God's characteristic is that he will never change, or go back on his word. When God promises something that something will happen sooner or latter. We all know that God cannot be around sin because he will not change so he could be around sin and be around more people. This is not God and he will never be this way.

I would like to know look at the characteristic of Abraham, we know that he had a choose, to either do the will of God or be in big trouble. Let's look at Genesis 22:1-14, which reads "22:1 After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here am I.” 2 He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” 3 So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. 5 Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.” 6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together. 7 And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here am I, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” 8 Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together.

9 When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here am I.” 12 He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called the name of that place, “The Lord will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”

God's wants us to be like Abraham and take the right path to obedience to God, then God will always be faithful to us, and keep his promises.

Until latter have a good day.