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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| EVERLASTING LIGHT |
| Isaiah 60:20 Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended. |
| We are in the midst of a number of description of our God that centers around the concept of everlasting, or the eternality of God. Our first description – Everlasting God – laid out the concept of God being out side of time, of His being, without the constraints of time being a concern. He is. A statement that in it’s simplicity is somewhat beyond our understanding! Todays description speaks of God as our everlasting light, and as we have noticed previously, to be everlasting is to lack the constraints of the past, future and present, to be beyond time. From our perspective, our Light, from our current existence in the present, has always been, and shall always be. Of course, as we look to Isaiah, his emphasis is on the future, that God will be Israel’s everlasting light. He is speaking of the day when all of creation will no longer require the sun or moon, that though both created bodies might never set or withdraw themselves, the everlasting light of God is the only light that His people will lean on, will seek, and will walk in. He is not a temporal light that sets on our lives, that withdraws after a few hours, but praise God, He is the Everlasting Light we do not deserve, and that we have been invited into. He is the Everlasting Light! |
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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