My hope is that this series will offer my readers a chance to consider the names, characteristics and descriptions of our God in the Word.
The remaining Names of God in this series might be considered descriptors, or characteristics of the Lord. We have reviewed the three primary Names of God, along with nineteen compound Names of God in our previous posts. As we venture through these descriptors of our God, I hope we will recognize all the many characteristics of our God that we tend to take for granted.
The Word is truly rich with descriptions of the Living God, and this effort of searching in the Word was quite illuminating. He truly is the ultimate subject of the Word, and His revelation of self-descriptions, or the accolades offered Him by His priests, prophets, kings apostles and faithful truly is a blessing.
May the Name of the Lord be praised, and by thinking on His name, may you have a blessed day.
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| DESPISED AND REJECTED |
| Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. |
| To think that the Lord, the God of Glory would be despised and rejected makes no sense! Let’s think of Isaiah’s situation. As religious Jews during the time of Isaiah (and for religious folks today), it would be common to generally voice an opinion of seeking the Lord. Would they not have confessed they wanted the knowledge of the Lord, that they only trusted God and none else. The Old Testament prophets reveal to us, they drew near with their mouth, honored God with their lips, but in reality, their (our) hearts are far from God. In a perfect world (which will come) our hearts will be completely sanctified and in that condition, the times of God being despised and rejected will be a fading memory, for He will wipe away all our tears. He was despised. He was rejected. He entered this foreign world on a mission of love, never having experienced this hatred, but knowing full well our despising, rejecting hearts would eventually kill Him. To be despised. To be looked down upon. To have disdain towards. To be revulsed of. To loathe. And why was this attitude expressed towards One full of grace and truth? A result of some inner judgement by the “righteous” upon their only hope. To be rejected. Not simply to be ignored, but to be considered an outcast, a pariah, one who was worthy only of getting rid of, considered trash and waste. How could we be so blind? And yet He holds His hands out to us. The Despised and Rejected One. |
I would love to hear of your favorite name, characteristic or description of the Living God. Please leave me a comment, and I will include it in the list!
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After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Revelation 7:9,10
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And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,
When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
Luke 14:7,8
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Matthew 6:5
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In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Luke 12:1
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