KNOWING GOD

In Revelation 1, John the Apostle of Jesus, was privileged to see his Lord and ours.  In Exodus 33, Moses was allowed to see the Glory of God pass by in front of his eyes.  These, and other experiences throughout Scripture, show us that God wants us to draw near to Him, see Him, and know Him.

Psalm 19 is a great description of God's glory being revealed to us.  The panoply of the expanse above and the unique simplistic creation below show us the greatness of our God.

John 1 tells of the creative acts of Jesus, as God, in eternity past.  To know Him as creator is extremely important in our understanding of just who our God is. This begins with a confident belief in a God "who can do anything, who knows everything, and who is present everywhere."  Warren Wiersbe said, "The Jewish people were forbidden to worship the objects in the heavens, nor were they allowed to practice astrology.  They worshipped the Creator, not the creation (Rom 1:25).  The existence of a creation implied the existence of a Creator, and the nature of the creation implied that He was wise enough to plan it and powerful enough to execute His plan and maintain what He made."

"The heavens declare the glory of God ..." Ps 19:1) are the first thoughts of the psalmist, king David, as he poured over in his heart and mind his understanding of the majesty and glory of God...the One whom he served...the One whom we serve...the One whom all creation shall bow before throughout eternity.

Take a glimpse of God's glory displayed in the heavens which do declare that beautiful and wonderful glory.

Have you ever really sought to comprehend the complexity of our galaxy, called the Milky Way. This picture above is a slice of this huge example of God's artistry.  Somewhere in the midst of this galactic compilation of stars,  our sun can be found and is just one of 200 billion other stars in this typical barred-spiral galaxy that is about 90,000 light years in diameter. (A light year is a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year, which is nearly 6 trillion miles.)  Did I say comprehend???  Yet, God spun them out into space by the very thought of His mind.

I am overwhelmed by the immenseness of our God, and yet the personal level of "love" which He extended to you and to me as He left the glory of heaven to pay the price for our "failure" to live up to His standards.

Some day, those of us who have believed on His name and placed our trust in Jesus as Lord and Savior, will have the privilege of living in eternity with Him in His home.

Let's just stop for a moment and worship as we listen to David Phelps bring us into the presence of the same God that David does in Psalm 19.  Click on the following link to YouTube and turn up the volume on your speaker then sit back and glory in our God.

David Phelps singing "We Shall Behold Him"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBvGzrnirT8