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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| ETERNAL SPIRIT |
| Hebrews 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. |
| In our last post on the Names of God, we considered “Eternal Life”. This post will address another name of God involving the term eternal. With that, it may be good to consider what eternal actually means. It generally has the meaning of everlasting, or of forever. I did a bit of a deep dive (for me) and posted my findings previously on this blog. If you are interested and are willing to consider some of my thinking, check out A Study of Eternal / Everlasting. Nevertheless, it is the Spirit that is eternal in this verse and our previous passage spoke of the Son as Eternal Life. I am sure you will not be surprised by our next post, and who is described as eternal in that passage. But I speak without thinking. For the passage before us speaks of the reliance of the Lord upon His equal, the Spirit of God, to be enabled to offer Himself to God. Jesus had spent entire His life depending on the Father through the Spirit, and when His greatest challenge came, He continued to trust, He continued to rely on the Spirit of God in His death. What trust! What strength the Spirit supplied, in the midst of such injustice, hatred, suffering, confusion and shame. He is the Eternal Spirit! |
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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