(Friends: during this series,
the messages may frequently be longer than usual due to the subject matter. Thanks for your patience, and I think
you will find the considerations interesting, and hopefully, helpful in our walk
with the Lord. Glen)
Part 7 – “The Personal
God”
God is, and has always been a
personal being. He thinks, feels, and wills. He is self conscious and aware of His
own existence. He also consciously
recognizes the existence of others, beginning with the plurality in unity that
exists within Himself. The Bible
teaches that God is triune, existing as three distinct Divine personalities who
relate to each other in the bond and perfection of love.
“Let us make man in Our
image, after Our likeness” (Genesis 1:26).
Amazingly, God chose
to create others like Himself, in the sense of our possessing capacity for self
and others awareness, along with the ability to communicate. To exist as a human being in God’s
creation speaks of an honored place and position. Our Lord made us for relationship with
Himself in personal terms whereby He knows us, we know Him, and we freely relate
to each other intellectually, emotionally, and volitionally. “Jesus answered and said unto him, If a
man love Me, he will keep My words: and my Father will love him, and we will
come unto him, and make our
abode with him” (John 14:23).
The entrance of sin
into the world through Adam greatly damaged the possibility of Divine/human
discourse, but the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ provides a relationship
with God that even Adam did not possess.
“This is life eternal, that
they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent”
(John 17:3).
Such relationship
offers to us knowledge of the “Who?” of God. By His Word, His Spirit, and the
fellowship of other believers, our Heavenly Father desires to unveil His heart
and mind to us. As God, He can tell
us very little about what He is. The gulf is far too wide between the
Creator and created beings to make such explanation possible. As our Father, however, He can tell us
much about who He is. That is, He reveals His character,
nature and way to such degree that we are “changed into the same image, from
glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord” (II Corinthians 3:18). The more this process occurs, the more
personal we discover God to be as our hearts become safe havens for “the light
of the knowledge of the glory of God” (II Corinthians 4:6).
No greater wonders
exists than the truth that God desires relationship with us, and empowers it as
we trust in the Lord Jesus. A
believing and submitted heart, a consistently read Bible, fellowship with
devoted believers, and confident expectation of God’s involvement and presence
in our lives reveals the fact of how personal He desires to be. Much was given on the cross of Calvary
to make possible so great a gift.
May we much avail ourselves of the wonder that our Father desires and
seeks our fellowship in this moment, this day, and forevermore.
“God is faithful, by whom ye
were called unto the fellowship
of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.”
(I Corinthians 1:9)
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