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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| FAITHFUL CREATOR |
| 1 Peter 4:19 Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good. |
| Peter is speaking in verses previous of how judgement must fall on all of us, and he refers to the church experiencing judgement first. As the nature of judgement is to be of trials, difficulties and pain, many in the church may recoil at this idea, that a loving God would allow His people to suffer. And for Peter to teach that His people to suffer first is over the top. Many may cry out in that suffering naturally, and faith will be tested. Questions of God’s nature and character may become the rhythm of the saint’s prayers and complaints. Why me O Lord? Why bring me into this world only for suffering? Why why why? Job questioned his very existence in the midst of suffering. Job 3:11-13 “Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire? Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse? For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest, Jeremiah called out, questioning the reason for his continual trials through his life. Jeremiah 20:18 Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame? All saint’s, to varying degrees, come to question God’s intent, or reason for their existence as Jeremiah and Job. Peter, knowing this, ministers to the Body of Christ in his teaching on pain and suffering by referring to our God as the Faithful Creator. God is not a “one time” Creator, as the deist’s believed, that created everything and then walked away to let it run on it’s own. God is a Faithful Creator, in that He was there at the beginning, has been faithful throughout all of creation and has created each one of us out of a nature of being faithful. We are not stranded without a Savior in our sufferings, and though He may be quiet at times, Peter assures us of His continual faithfulness. We are a people that need that message to reside deep in our soul, for as hard times may come, to know the Lord as a faithful Creator will be a rock for our lives. He is a faithful Creator! |
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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