God is God by marietjie Chase

God is God. He is in control. He has NOT abdicated or gone on vacation. He did not delegate His position and has Not abandoned us. He has not made other little gods to help Him be god and He is not uncomfortable at being God.

The president, government, doctors, your spouse, boss, teacher or pastor is NOT God. You give them due respect but they do NOT deserve your worship and first place in your devotion.  We misunderstand submission and get lost in a quagmire of idol worship until we find ourselves choked in circumstances we cannot comprehend. When we de-throne God in our hearts, we play with fire. What is it that you give the most time, money and energy to? What occupy most of your thoughts? When you have decisions to make, what are you thinking? Maybe you think: " I wonder what my mother/father/pastor/friend/etc would think or say?" This is placing that person in the place of God in our lives. Some may say, and this is maybe more often true, I don't think of anyone else; I just do what is right for me. Well, then you worship at the altar of self.

Jesus said: "I delight to do Your will O, God"

When we worship God in spirit and in truth, we live for His will. We desire to please Him first and foremost. Our concern is first with what God wants. Our submission is first to Him. We commit our lives, and all that it entails, to Him and trust Him with it. We ask ourselves what God would have us do. We search the scriptures and pray for answers. We obey God. The Bible says that those who have a heart postured at obedience, will know the will of God. We have faith, trust and peace with His will for us.

When God is God in our lives, we do not call the shots. We do not demand from or command God. We do not make plans, or do things, and then demand God's blessing upon it. We do not walk in presumption and then get angry because God does not fall in with our plans.When God is God we walk in humility, honesty and uprightness before Him.

There is nothing wrong with asking, in humility, when we do not understand, like Mary did. It is when we get angry at God, when we get offended at His godness, we step out of submission and into rebellion. When we do not understand, we find peace in the fact that because He IS God that He has all things in control. That He has a plan and a purpose and that we and all that concerns us, is safe in His hands.

Could we believe that? Could we believe that God is God?

The question still re-vibrates through the ages: "Who are you and who is your god?"

The Unchanging God by Marietjie Chase

The way I hear some folks talk you would think that there are a few hundred different god's who send their son to die on a cross. The way people relate to God and make Him sound like; makes one think that He is like us and made in our image...That is obviously putting the cart in front of the horse.

Not only is He an eternal, everlasting God, He also does not change. He is forever the same.


Before we go and make a god palatable to us, a god that fits our box, let's find out who He really is. Let's just simply look at what is already revealed. God says of Himself :"I am the LORD, I change not." Malachi 3:6. In Numbers 23:19 He says: " God is not a man, that He should lie, nor the son of man that He should repent.” Hebrews 13:8 says: "Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever." Since God is God, we can only know Him by what He reveals of Himself. "Going through a long line of prophets, God has been addressing our ancestors in different ways for centuries. Recently he spoke to us directly through his Son. By his Son, God created the world in the beginning, and it will all belong to the Son at the end. This Son perfectly mirrors God, and is stamped with God's nature. He holds everything together by what he says—powerful words! " Hebrews 1: 1-2 When we study the Bible to know God, we will see who He is. When we see how He deals with people in the Old Testament we get to know Him. This does not mean that our own History with God should be discounted. Just remember that because you are involved, that it is subjective. Still, let us agree with Paul when he says:"That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;" Phil 3:10

 
Some folks think there is an Old Testament God and a New Testament God. This is deceiption. There is only one God.  God did not change. Who He is does not change. He demanded sacrifice for sin in the Old Testament and He demanded sacrifice for sin in the New Testament. In the Old Testament it was bulls, calves and steers in the New Testament He provided His own sacrifice, His Son, Jesus Christ. He was a Holy God in the past and is still a Holy God. He hated sin then and still hates sin. He loved His people then and He loves His people now. Those who neglect any part of the Bible will have a dilusional idea of God.
 
God does not change, He does not mature, He does not grow. What changes, is our relationship with Him as we get to know Him better and more intimately. We are the variable in the equation. God is the constant. The old hymn writers knew this: "A Mighty Fortress is our God," "My Anchor holds...", " On Christ the solid Rock I stand..." 

For some of us who are constantly being shaken by the waves of ever-changing life, we find comfort in this. God will never change. He will be our anchor, our sure foundation, since in Him, there is no shadow of changing. The world may change, the sun, moon and stars may change but God will never change. The God that was there at creation is still the same God whom we worship today. The God who is going to be there at the end is the same God we are relating to today.

We can hold onto this. We can find a footing in this. We can find our balance in this. God will not change and He will always be there..

Thank You Father, that You are a Solid refuge and an unchangeable Fortress.