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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| FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH |
| John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. |
| Jesus is full of grace and truth. To be full is to be complete, lacking in nothing, thoroughly permeated, filled to the brim, perfect. He is spoken of as being full of the Holy Spirit. Luke 4:1 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness. To be full implies there is no room for anything else in the vessel. In our verse, John speaks of Jesus as being full of two characteristics, and by stating this, he may be thinking of an Old Testament passage that refers to the same two characteristics that God described Himself as being. Exodus 34:6 The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, Steadfast Love. חֶסֶד cheçed. Kindness, favor, mercy. As God passed by Moses, one of the descriptions he heard was of the kindness and mercy of God. Faithfulness. אֶמֶת ʼemeth. Faithfulness, firmness, truth. The second descriptor of our God that Moses heard, that John recounts to us of Jesus is that of reliability, sureness, faithfulness and truth, that which confirms to reality! He must conform to reality, for He is the source of all reality, and as the fruit so is the tree! So as John was describing the Prophet from Nazareth to his readers, He continued linking Jesus with the eternal, calling Him out as the Lord of Lords, the God of gods. Linking Him with the God Moses wrote of, abounding in grace and truth, unable to fit anything else into His nature. Abounding, full of grace and truth. In all of Jesus actions, the base motivator is grace and truth. Combined, for without truth, the actions have no lasting stability, and without grace, the actions become harsh, hard and without life. No, He is a God who loves, acting out of a gracious, truth based nature! He is Full of Grace and Truth. He proved it while walking amongst us, and if you know Him, He continues to prove it to us daily in our lives for His glory. Thank you Jesus! |
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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