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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| GOD WHO HAS BEEN MY SHEPHERD |
| Genesis 48:15 And he blessed Joseph and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day, |
| Let’s remember who is speaking in this verse. It is that rapscallion Israel, the one who lied and cheated through out his life, causing strife and turmoil in the family, breaking his mother’s heart in having to run for his life, tearing apart his connection with his brother, creating division within his own family by favoring Rachel, deceiving his father, conning his Uncle Laban, and unwilling to let Benjamin go to Egypt to acquire food for those of his family. Israel has the nerve to speak of God as being his Shepherd all his life. Yet this should not surprise us, for we know of the mercies of the Lord, of his gracious leadings, and of how he bends down to us, reaching out to us in our state of sin and pulling us out of misery. But there is one thing to note in Israel’s statement regarding God as his Shepherd. He doesn’t declare himself as a particularly good sheep, or of any type of sheep. No this statement doesn’t take into account the goodness of the sheep, but only the faithfulness of the Shepherd, the Shepherd who is faithful to His sheep. God who has been my Shepherd. To think that Israel considered God and not himself at his final moments on earth speaks volumes, for he had come to a place where he recognized the goodness of God in spite of his own actions, and that was worth focusing on! It is wise to focus on the God who has been our Shepherd! |
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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