The INCOMPREHENSIBILITY of God.

THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF GOD.

Geoffrey R. Kirkland

Christ Fellowship Bible Church, pastor

The incomprehensibility of God refers to the fact that God’s nature, being, ways, and decrees are beyond human understanding. Even the Apostle Paul exclaimed: “How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable are His ways” (Romans 11.33)! The INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF GOD speaks to the unrivaled truth of God that He is unfathomable. No one can fathom, or understand, or fully know all that there is to know about God. 

This means God is independent, self-sufficient, dependent on no one or nothing or existence, powerful, and simple. All of God and the depths of God are beyond human reckoning. We cannot fathom the fullness of the depth and breadth and height and length and bounds of God. Indeed, there are no bounds to God. The Reformers would often say: “The finite cannot grasp the infinite."

An important and essential point must clearly be understood by us. Though God is incomprehensible, He is at the very same time truly knowable.  Though we cannot know all there is to know about God, we can know God truly and genuinely. We can know God personally and individually.  Though we cannot plumb the depths of the mind of God, we can know the mind of Christ accurately as He has revealed Himself in Scripture. 

Ponder these truths. God’s thoughts are not our thoughts; His ways are not our ways; for as high as the heavens are above the earth, so His ways are higher than our ways (Isaiah 55.8-9). This puts people in the proper place as we humbly bow before His infinite transcendence and His exclusive position of authority. Indeed: “the secret things belong to the LORD” (Deuteronomy 29.29a). God is incomprehensible. You can’t ever figure out all of God’s ways. 

This mind-blowing reality of God and His unfathomable and unsearchable knowledge and wisdom should cause our hearts to erupt with humility and praise. We must bow low before our God and never grumble or complain or question any of His ways. Rather, we must trust our good God who is wise and perfect in executing His decrees every moment of every day for every person for His ultimate glory. This amazing truth of God should propel us to greater, deeper, prolonged study of Him in His Word, the Scriptures. We can know God truly by studying His revelation of Himself through Christ as seen in the pages of the Bible. So then, God is both hidden and revealed! We cannot know the deepest thoughts of God’s heart (so we trust Him!) but we engage in heartfelt and devotional study of Him through His Word (so we can know Him and obey Him!). 

The incomprehensibility of God should have a real impact on your life this very day. For you to grasp this truth in your heart means that you must trust in your God in all of His ways. Everything that happens in your life is from the decreed and perfect hand of God. Even the trials that take us by surprise and may linger long in hard times should remind us to not chafe nor rebel nor grumble at God’s doings. Rather, we must praise and worship Him and acknowledge that whatever God ordains is always right and good. Every event, every nation, every kingdom, everything in nature and creation, and all circumstances and meetings and occasions are all from the incomprehensible mind and plan of God. He is always working out His perfect and fore-ordained decrees. Thus, worship Him in humble and heartfelt wonder and praise! Though we cannot know God fully, let’s keep studying Him to know Him truly and personally! As God says of His covenant-people: “I will give them a heart to know me; for I am the LORD” (Jeremiah 24.7)!

 

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The COMPASSION of God.

THE COMPASSION OF GOD.

Geoffrey R. Kirkland

Christ Fellowship Bible Church 

The LORD your God is a COMPASSIONATE GOD (Deut 4.31).  The compassion of God is an attribute of God’s essential nature and marvelous being whereby He willingly shows mercy and kindness to His creation. Some have called it a ‘core’ attribute of God. It flows from His wondrous nature. It’s the spring through which He manifests expressions of love and tenderness toward weak and pitiful creatures. 

Psalm 86.15 describes God as being “full of compassion”. The Hebrew word for ‘compassion’ speaks of a deep, internal, emotion-filled love for an object. It is used for a mother’s tender love toward her nursing baby (Isa 49.15). It speaks of a father’s kind love toward his very own children (Psalm 103.13). The word underscores the deep and tender love God has for weak creatures. God knows the weaknesses of fallen and helpless creatures. He can sympathize and relate to human temptation and weakness (though without sin!). He never excuses our sins or overlooks sin or winks at sin but He does have much tender mercy and internal affection toward His creatures in such a miserable condition. 

The Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the King of glory and the God of all majesty pronounced denunciation judgments on unbelievers (Matthew 23). And yet, in that very same context and setting, our Lord has tender compassions toward unbelieving Jerusalem wishing and yearning for her repentance unto life! (Matthew 23.37). What melting mercy and what undeserved grace and what lavish tenderness our sovereign Lord shows toward men! 

Think of it: a bruised reed He will not break (Matthew 12.20)!  What a loving and understanding Savior!  Our Lord saw the crowds and He had compassion for them and didn’t want them to faint on their journey home (Mark 8.2). Our Lord saw a weeping woman and had great compassion toward her (Luke 7.13). 

Think of it:  the Lord God of heaven and earth is ‘full of compassion and is merciful’ (James 5.11). The prophet Joel pleaded with sinners to return to the Lord God in genuine repentance for He is gracious and compassionate (Joel 2.13). O sinner, wretched sinner, hell-bound sinner, sin-loving transgressor, turn to God thru faith in Christ right now! God, being compassionate, forgives iniquity and is willing to not destroy sinners (Psalm 78.38). But if you slight his compassions now, He will cease His invitations to you when you don’t expect it, and there will be no mercy for you but only justice. Flee to God’s merciful compassion through repentance from sin and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and be saved from the Almighty judgment of God that will unendingly crush you in hellfire for endless eternities to come!  

But in Christ, we know that His lovingkindnesses never fail and His compassions never fail (Lamentations 3.22). Child of God, adopted into God’s family through His sovereign predestination (Ephesians 1.5), remember and rejoice that you now stand in the secure position of being chosen of God, holy and beloved (Colossians 3.12). And because you have received compassion from God, now you must show this same compassion toward others (Colossians 3.12b). Be astonished and let this truth humble your heart that God who said: "I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion” has selected you to be an eternal object of His passionate and kind compassions forevermore (Romans 9.15). Let the tender, emotional, kind, sweet compassions of your Savior fill you with hope and rest, joy and worship, humility and a holy resolve to show this same compassion toward others!  All for the glory of your God who is the “Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness and truth” (Exodus 34.6)!

 

 

**More entries from this ongoing blog series on the ATTRIBUTES OF GOD are here.

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The ETERNITY of God.

 THE ETERNITY OF GOD

Geoffrey R. Kirkland

Christ Fellowship Bible Church 

The ETERNALITY OF GOD means that God has no beginning and no end.  From everlasting to everlasting, He is God (Psalm 90.2). How amazing to think that the God, the one and only God, has perfect, timeless, infinite, unfathomable duration — without beginning, without ending, and without succession. God does not grow older today than He was yesterday. He is not learning or growing in knowledge with the passing of years. God remains eternal, both now and ever.

Amazingly and unfathomably, God is timeless and unchangeable and therefore always perfect.  He cannot grow or improve or become better. He never needs improvement or revising or editing. He never needs to change with the times and become more relevant to His creatures. God proclaimed about Himself: “Even from eternity, I am He” (Isaiah 43.13). 

Therefore, this eternity of God means that He is the sure and steadfast dwelling place for all His creatures (Deuteronomy 33.27). He is Lord over time, existing both above time and within time for His own glory and purposes. He is totally free from the passing of time and never hindered or limited by the demands of time and urgency of the moment. God is never frustrated or stressed out!

Additionally, the eternity of God comforts the child of God because He is an “eternal Father” (Isaiah 9.7). For the true child of God who knows Jesus as Savior, God has always known Him, from eternity past, and has set His Almighty love upon the individual as His own possession (Romans 8.29-30). 

Most soberingly, the eternity of God also necessitates that His wrath shall endure forevermore in eternal hell as He punishes sinners justly, relentlessly, fairly and unendingly. Unbelievers will be cast into the eternal fire (Matthew 25.41). Oh run, unbelieving sinner! How will you escape the almighty and eternal judgment that awaits you! One day in hellfire would be bad enough. A million years would be worse still! But endless eternities in the presence of the eternal God is too much to even bear or contemplate! Hasten quickly to Christ and be converted that your sins may be wiped away (Acts 3.19)! Come at once, come right now to this eternal God who is mighty and able to save (1 John 5.13). If you reject, you will endure a severe punishment from this God of eternity (Hebrews 10.29-31)!

At the same time, the eternity of God causes the heart of the Christian stop soar because He has given us “eternal life” (1 Timothy 1:16). Indeed, this is a very promise from the unchanging God: eternal life (1 John 2.25). Our God is good and His lovingkindnesses are everlasting (Jeremiah 33.11). So therefore, child of God, get lost in the wonder of the eternity of God and stand confidently on this amazing Rock in the shaky culture in which we live: “for in God the LORD, we have an everlasting Rock” (Isaiah 26.4). 

So we remember with Habakkuk and shout: “Are you not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy one” (Habakkuk 1.12). The dominion of God is an everlasting dominion (Daniel 7.14).

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The EXCELLENCIES of God.

THE EXCELLENCIES OF GOD.

Geoffrey R. Kirkland

Christ Fellowship Bible Church,  St. Louis, MO

The biblical writers speak of the “Greatness of God’s excellence” (Exodus 15.7). The EXCELLENCE of God refers to the sum-perfection, the complete totality of characteristics and traits that speak of God’s uniqueness and perfections. The excellence of God teaches that God is supreme and satisfying, perfect and good.  Some may see the excellence of God as the over-arching attribute that encompasses all the other perfections of God’s being.  

Everything God is and all that God does is marked by and distinguished by perfection and excellence. This speaks of his beauty and bounteousness. It underscores His glory and wonderful ability. The excellence of God speaks to the absolute standard of integrity and perfect purity. All that God is speaks of wondrous excellence. All of His deeds are supremely complete, blameless and impeccable with integrity (2 Samuel 22.26; Psalm 18.30).  

Additionally, the excellencies of God consist of His heroic and incomparable deeds. Our God has all power. And He alone can do all His holy will, all the time, effortlessly and unhesitatingly. Nothing is too difficult for the Lord (Jeremiah 32.27)!  Because of this mighty work of our Christ, He has inherited a more ‘excellent’ Name than the angels (Hebrews 1.4). 

When the Scriptures speak of the excellence of God, the Hebrew word points to that which is majestic, lofty, royal and glorious.  Negatively, it can refer to haughtiness and one whose pride has lifted him up. But when speaking of our perfect God, it highlights the exalted, high and wondrously unique character of God. He is perfectly excellent, beautiful, bounteous, good, and satisfying in every way. He is enjoyable and pleasing and fulfilling to the humble heart who trusts in Him! 

In the New Testament, the Greek word for God’s excellencies points out His moral excellence and His quality of eminent endowment of purity and virtue. Notably, the Scriptures speak of proclaiming God’s excellencies — in the plural! God’s people have the blessed obligation and joyful duty to proclaim our God’s excellencies for He has saved us, called us out of darkness, and delivered us by His sovereign love. Peter says that God called us by His own glory and excellence (2 Peter 1.3). Believers must dwell and focus intently on the things that are excellence (Philippians 4.8). In our day to day lives, we must strive to add to our faith moral excellence (2 Peter 1.5). Interestingly, in the Hebrew Old Testament, Boaz spoke of the godly Ruth as a woman of “excellence” (Ruth 3.11).  Your God is manifoldly excellent, entirely satisfying, eminently glorious, and bottomlessly blameless. 

No wonder the Apostle Paul was stunned and overwhelmed at the privilege of proclaiming the ‘unfathomable riches’ of Christ (Ephesians 3.8). This is your duty as well! Consider your God who is infinite in excellencies and then let us speak of Him and His heroic wonders to one another and to the lost who need a Savior. What must we do?  Isaiah 12 speaks of kingdom praise: “Praise the LORD in song, for He has done excellent things” (Isaiah 12.5). What perfect and complete excellence God has in His manifold traits. Let your heart ponder Him deeply so you love Him more intensely and obey Him more fully! O get lost in wonder of the “greatness of His excellence!”

**More from this ongoing blog-series can be found HERE.

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The TRANSCENDENCE of God.

THE TRANSCENDENCE OF GOD.

Geoffrey R. Kirkland

Christ Fellowship Bible Church (STL), pastor 

 

 

The Lord is “high and lifted up and greatly exalted” (Isaiah 52.13). This speaks of the TRANSCENDENCE OF GOD. This wonder attribute of God’s transcendence speaks to His essential quality of being high above and superior to anything and everything in all of creation.  This is not something that God becomes or grows into but it speaks to the unending, unchanging, and continuous state of His glorious Being. God is highly exalted (Exodus 15.1). Quite simply: the transcendence of God means that God’s glorious Being is royally exalted in perfect and pure and sovereign and secure dignity.  God alone is “enthroned on high” (Psalm 113.5).

God is transcendent in His BEING. God is exalted above all the peoples (Psalm 99.2). No one can relate to God because He alone far surpasses all other gods, all men, and everything in creation. This attribute of God that splendidly flows from His essential nature underscores His holiness, majesty, glory and worth. 

God is transcendent in His POWER. God is exalted in His mighty strength (Psalm 21.13). God’s nature is limitless and His being is perfect and unmatched. At the same time, our God who is transcendently powerful is also intimately present and involved in our lives. 

God is transcendent in His UNIQUENESS. God brings down rulers (Luke 1.52) but He alone is exalted (Isaiah 57.15).  God is totally independent from all His creation. He succeeds over His creation and is Lord over His creation. Nothing can compare with God for He alone is greater. None is higher. None is more worthy than our Lord! What likeness would we compare with God (Isaiah 40.18)? 

God is transcendent in His SUPERIORITY. God is exalted even above the heavens (Psalm 57.5). At God’s right hand there are pleasures forevermore (Psalm 16.11).  

While all of this is true, let us guard from any hint of deistic thinking. This error asserts that God is distant, uninvolved, unconcerned, and not working in His creation. Not so! The Bible teaches the exact opposite. Our sovereign and transcendent God is active working all things together for good (Romans 8.28) and He promises to accomplish all His will (Isaiah 9.7; 46.10). God’s grace comes to us through the working of His power (Ephesians 3.7). 

 

Marvel today at your transcendent God who sits in heaven, reigning over all things in existence, high above all nations and kings and rulers and angelic authorities! Consider your God. Rest in His power. Find comfort in His love. Remember His strong grip on you. Ponder His exalted loftiness with a heart of humble awe and heartfelt praise.

 

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The SOLITARINESS of God.

THE SOLITARINESS OF GOD. 

Geoffrey R. Kirkland

Christ Fellowship Bible Church 

The SOLITARINESS of God means that God is God alone. There is no one like Him! From all eternity past, God is unrivaled and unmatched. God has no equals and no rivals. None can compare with our God!  The true and living God is totally distinct and entirely separate from all His creation. 

The song in Exodus extols this: “Who is like you, among the gods, O Lord” (Exodus 15.11)? Psalm 89 says: “Who is like you, O mighty Lord” (Psalm 89.8)? Even God Himself asks: “Who is like me? Let him proclaim and declare it” (Isaiah 44.7).  Again, God affirms: There is no God besides me, no savior besides me and no other besides me (Isaiah 43.11; 44.6; 45.5, 6). 

From all eternity past, from before the creation of all things, God existed in perfect solitary and exclusive joy. God existed alone in perfect, triune, inter-trinitarian relationship and delight. For God to be solitary in His essential being and perfections means that God depends on nothing and no one for life and for existence. He is independent and self-sufficient. He is wondrously self-contained, self-sufficient, self-relying, self-satisfied, self-magnifying and in need of nothing outside of Himself. It is this most unique and wondrous quality of God’s being that sets Him apart from anything and everything in all the universe! 

God perfectly lives in total completeness in His own essential being! He is the source and sustainer of everything. He gives life to all but needs nothing from all because He is perfectly whole and sufficient in Himself. God forever lives as the uncaused cause of everything. He creates by His own miraculous, powerful, irresistible word. He therefore is unique and distinct from His creation. 

This is why the prophet Jeremiah exclaimed: “There is none like you” (Jeremiah 10.7)!  King David affirmed in prayer: "O LORD, there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You” (1 Chronicles 17.20).  Ponder this unique and God-magnifying truth today. God is solitary because none can be compared with Him! The solitariness of God defines the grand beauty and exclusive uniqueness of God and impacts all of God’s being and all the attributes and actions of our God. 

This reminds us of the many occasions in the gospels when Jesus did a miracle, or taught the gospel and crowds would respond with something like: “who is this” (Luke 9.9; Matt 21.10)? Ponder this today and get lost in wonder and praise of your Triune God. Each member — the Father, the Son, the Spirit — is unique in His unrivaled majesty, in His royal excellencies, unmatched in His perfections, and He sustains everything but is independent from everything.  This should cause you and me to rejoice deeply in His essential being. Simultaneously, it should prompt humility in our hearts in knowing that this God — the solitary God — cares about us, gives life to us, is interested in us, and loves us! Trust Him! Rest your soul in Him! Cast all your burdens, your anxieties, your fears, your cares upon this mighty and unmatched Savior!  Run to Him afresh today!  This solitary God desires and deserves your praise and worship!  

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The GLORY of God.

THE GLORY OF GOD

Geoffrey R. Kirkland

Christ Fellowship Bible Church, pastor

The GLORY OF GOD consists of the beauty of His being. God’s glory comprises the fullness of his infiniteness of all His excellencies arrayed in marvelous splendor.  It does not refer merely to something that is made that catches the eye or comes across as aesthetically beautiful, but rather the glory of God is the emanating effulgence of His infinitely arrayed excellencies. Some have said that God’s glory is the “magnificence, worth, splendor, loveliness and grandeur of His many perfections which He has and which He displays in His being, in His creative actions, and in His redemption. 

Quite simply, in a word, the glory of God is the fullness of His beautiful being. That’s why the Hebrew word for glory speaks often of His weightiness and heaviness of His manifold and wondrous being!  This is why King David exulted and said: “We praise your glorious Name” (1 Chronicles 29.13)!  We meditate on the glorious splendor of God’s majesty (Psalm 145.5). One day, Jesus Christ, the Lord of majesty, will return and reign and He will be beautiful and glorious on the earth (Isaiah 4.2-5). The Apostle Paul calls Jesus the “Lord of glory” (1 Corinthians 2.8). That means that Jesus is the fullness of God’s excellencies in His person.

First, the glory of God consists in the manifold beauty of His infinite perfections. God’s glory is not a part of who God is or what God does, but it is the blessed and boundless magnitude of His wonders all harmonized and working together. God’s glory is His enjoyment of Himself because of His infinite perfections. 

Second, God shows His glory visibly and manifestly at certain times when He tangibly displays His wondrous character and unrivaled power before the eyes of men. For example: before the eyes of all the sons of Israel, the glory of God appeared like a consuming fire on time of Sinai (Exodus 24.17). Moses couldn’t enter the newly constructed tabernacle because the glory of God filled it (Exodus 40.35). When Solomon prayed after he built the Temple, fire came down and consumed the sacrifices and the glory of God filled the Temple (2 Chronicles 7.1). John said that Jesus the Word became flesh and we saw His glory (John 1.14).

Third, the glory of God appears in His wonderful acts as He created all things, sustains all things, upholds all things, and brings all things to their appointed end (Psalm 19.1; Isaiah 43.7).

Fourth, humans must behold the glory of the Lord (2 Corinthians 3.18) by gazing on Christ so as to respond and reflect, to mediate and marvel, to proclaim and ponder, to praise and honor the God of glory.  We must glory in His Holy name (1 Chronicles 16.10). We are to worship God by ascribing — giving — God glory and strength (Psalm 29.1). We shall speak of the glory of God’s kingdom (Psalm 145.11). And one day, in the Kingdom, we shall all cry out: “Glory to the Righteous One” (Isaiah 24.16). We must grow strong in faith (like Abraham), giving glory to God (Romans 4.20). In fact, everything that we do, whether eating and drinking, should all be done for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10.31). 

Fifth, what is heaven by the infinite effulgence and happy radiance of God’s glory for endless eternities and our enjoyment in His glory. The Lamb who sits on the throne shall receive glory forevermore (Revelation 5.12,13; 7:12; 21.23).

So then, in conclusion, if the glory of God consists in the fullness of God’s personhood and the going forth of His beauty and the happy enjoyment of God being God and putting His wonders on display for all to behold, then let us contemplate God today. Let us get lost in wonder in His deep splendors and bottomless excellencies. And let us think on Him, and consider Him, and speak of Him, and worship Him, and ascribe the highest honors and reverence and praises to Him and to Him alone (Psalm 96.3)! 

**More on this ongoing blog-series on the Attributes of God HERE.

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The JEALOUSY of God.

THE JEALOUSY OF GOD.

Geoffrey R. Kirkland

Christ Fellowship Bible Church, pastor

 

The jealousy of God speaks of God’s noble and passionate desire for His people to worship Him exclusively. The Lord whose name is Jealous is a jealous God (Exodus 34.14). This is part of God’s essential being which flows out of His infinite goodness, perfections, joy and preeminence. Because of who God is and how beautiful He is, He longs for pure and total devotion from His creatures. Not only does He long for this devotion but He fully deserves it. Thus, for God to be jealous means that He longs for His people to have highest joy and infinite pleasure in complete devotion to the highest pursuit of their affections — God alone! 

The holiness of God and the love of God fuel His jealousy. He knows Himself fully and He cares for His creatures deeply and He jealousy calls for submission, devotion, and affection in every area of life. God can and should do this because He is the highest good and His own glory and honor is the most soul-satisfying and happy pursuit that man could ever attain. God’s jealousy does not consist of a passing or passing mood swing. Rather, it is the very essence and core of His worthy and excellent Being to earnestly desire His magnificence to be enjoyed by all His creatures! 

The LORD is a jealous fire and a consuming God. Even looking at the example of God’s passionate and jealous love in the book of Hosea, we see God’s passionate pursuit of His people and His love for their truest devotion (Hosea 6.1-3). The prophet Nahum preached and spoke of God being a jealous and avenging God (Nahum 1.2). Thus, when His creatures do not worship Him appropriately, God rightly responds with jealous anger and wrath because He fully deserves it; and indeed, He made them for infinite delight in Him (Nahum 1.2-6). 

Most practically, then, the jealousy of God means that He passionately longs for your full and total devotion.  He wants you to submit to Him and to delight in His Lordship (Luke 9.23). He wants you to confess Him as Lord, bow to Him as King, trust Him as Father, and give your ultimate allegiance and ardent love to Him as your Bridegroom (Deuteronomy 6.4-5).

Further, it has been well stated that God’s jealousy speaks to his holy commitment to his honor, glory and love seen in the salvation of his people and the just condemnation of all who oppose him. His fervent passion is for His own to find ultimate happiness not in the things of this world but in Him alone!  Contemplate your God and His loving jealousy for you to love Him and serve Him and speak of Him.  Consider your God whose open arms invite you to find your happiest joys in Him and in Him alone. His perfections and holiness and excellencies fuel His jealousy and at the same time invite you to exult in Him.  Consider Him. Reaffirm your love for Him and submit to His Lordship in every area of your life.

 

 

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The TRUTH of God.

THE TRUTH OF GOD.

Geoffrey R. Kirkland

Christ Fellowship Bible Church, pastor

 

 

God never forgets His lovingkindness and His truth (Genesis 24.27).  The truth of God refers to His essential being which is totally reliable and always true to His word. When referring to God as the God of truth, we mean that He alone is the exclusive God of truth. There is none other. It also means that God knows all things exhaustively and that His being is impeccably dependable and reliable.  As God, and as the definer and standard of truth, He is the author of truth, the source of truth, the determiner of truth, and the final judge over all truth. 

How encouraging to know that your God is infinitely truthful, everlastingly reliable, and totally dependable in all His words, ways, and promises. It is a moral attribute of God’s being that speaks to His dependability and integrity and blamelessness.  And he, of course, as God is the perfect standard of Truth. He is infallible and cannot fail. He is totally faithful and will keep His promises. He is exclusive and preeminent as the only true God. He is reliable because He cannot lie or deceive. 

All of God’s commandments are truth (Psalm 119.151). When Christ came into this world as the Living Word, He came as fullness of grace and truth (John 1.14). Those who know the Truth and believe the Truth shall learn that the truth sets them free (John 8.32). But in the progressive nature of Christian living, Jesus Himself prays that we would be sanctified in the Truth (John 17.19).  

Preachers must handle the Word of Truth accurately (2 Timothy 2.15). We must turn from all false teachers and erroneous teachings which lead people away from the truth (2 Peter 2.2). The saving gospel is the knowledge of the Truth and the conviction of this as the only message that saves (1 Timothy 2.4). We must be sanctified by the truth (John 17.17).

Because God’s very being consists of utter and infinite truthfulness, all believers must receive comfort knowing that God remains dependable and reliable through every situation of life. His Word is always yes and amen. He will always fulfill His promises. And believers, then, must imitate this communicable attribute of God as we practice the truth (Ephesians 4.15, 24-25). 

Unbelievers, however, must hear the warning of this truth of God. For if sinners do not repent and turn to Christ by faith alone, they will be judged forevermore (Matthew 25.46). Those who do not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved are those show ill be lost forever (2 Thessalonians 2.10). Jesus alone is the way, the Truth, and the life and no one will ever come to God except through Christ (John 14.6).

Ponder the truth of God. Let this encourage your heart while living in an untruthful and deceptive age. While the world grows darker, mischievous and unreliable, God always remains perfectly dependable, truthful, and faithful.  This is reason to rejoice. Consider your God in His perfect truthfulness!

 

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The WISDOM of God.

THE WISDOM OF GOD.

Geoffrey R. Kirkland

Pastor, Christ Fellowship Bible Church 

Wisdom and power belong to God (Daniel 2.20). All wisdom and might and counsel and understanding belongs to God (Job 12.13). The WISDOM OF GOD speaks of God’s ability to always produce the best possible results because of His perfect knowledge. The wisdom of God is perfection in action. The wisdom of God defines the very being and essence of who God is. 

Undoubtedly God knows all things (omniscience) and he also has comprehensive, infinite, exhaustive, perfect, and limitless understanding of everything in all the universe. With God is wisdom. Blessing and glory and wisdom be to our God forever and ever (Revelation 7.12). Those in heaven sing “worthy is the Lamb to receive power, riches, and wisdom (Revelation 5.12).

The wisdom of God is revealed in Holy Scripture. It is the sacred writings that are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3.15).  In Christ we have the perfect embodiment of infinite wisdom (Colossians 2.3). God’s testimonies make wise the simple (Psalm 19.7). 

God has put His magnificent wisdom on display in creation. In wisdom, God made all His works (Psalm 104.24). The prophet said God established the world by His wisdom (Jeremiah 10.12).  Take a look at creation by looking up, looking down, looking around and behold the amazing wisdom of God in action. God made all things by His power, upholds all things by His word, and has an appointed end of all things by His decrees. And all of this acts wondrously, perfectly, accordingly to His plan because God always works with unfathomable wisdom. 

Child of God, seek the Lord and seek His wisdom. You lack wisdom and should ask God who gives wisdom generously (James 1.5). God loves to give wisdom to those who ask him (Proverbs 2.6). God gives wisdom to wise men (Daniel 2.21). Even Solomon, when he reigned as king, ruled by the wisdom that God gave him (1 Kings 5.12). Even young children can grow in wisdom just as Jesus the Lord had to increase in wisdom (Luke 2:40, 52). 

The perfect wisdom of God’s being is the perfect foundation and blessed hope we have for the planning of redemption, the achievement of propitiation, the magnification of the Son, the security of the saints, and the everlasting bliss that awaits us in glory. God’s wisdom is not just intellectual data. It is the sovereign choosing, the wondrous achieving, and the outworking of all of His decrees (in space and time) so as to glorify Himself. 

 

In the plan to save corrupt sinners from wrath, God put His wisdom on display in sending His own perfect Son as the Lamb, the sinless substitute, the perfect redeemer, the wrath-appeasing propitiation, and the ultimate sacrifice to take away sin and reconcile sinners to Himself (1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5).

It has been well said that God is infinitely wise, consistently wise, and perfectly wise. AW Tozer writes: "Wisdom, among other things, is the ability to devise perfect ends and to achieve those ends by the most perfect means. It sees the end from the beginning, so there can be no need to guess or conjecture. Wisdom sees everything in focus, each in proper relation to all, and is thus able to work toward predestined goals with flawless precision.”

When you consider the perfect goodness of God’s unfrustrated wisdom you will say with the Apostle Paul: Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God (Romans 11.33).

 

 

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