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Names of God – GOD OF MY LIFE – 223


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 OF MY LIFE
 
Psalm 42:8 By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
Throughout my Christian life I have heard the call to obey the commands of God, to be a disciple, to seek Him with all my heart, soul mind and strength. This is the call of any who would seek to know the Living God, the Redeeming God, the God who provides, guides supplies and comforts.

It is the clarion call for the believer, for the saint who seeks to honor the One who loves him and gave himself for his life.

It is the expression of our acts that proves that God is the God of my life, and with the remaining portion of this post, please try to hang onto that truth.

Hang on now, for we are going to consider our verse above, and at first blush, I see no call to obedience in this verse. No sacrificial love demanded for the saint to practice. David focuses on the Lord’s actions, His commanding of steadfast love to be on the believer, and His song over the believer at night.

David is dwelling on the goodness of God when He speaks of the God of his life. He isn’t speaking of our response to this incredible love provided, but simply dwelling on the person of God, on the actions He supplies to the saint.

This concept, I believe is fleshed out clearer (for myself at least) when Paul writes the following.

2 Corinthians 3:18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Did you catch it?

We, as believers, are doing nothing in this verse except beholding the glory of the Lord. It is that beholding, that looking at, that staring at the glory of the Lord that has transformative impact on the believer.

The transformation is being done to us!

Our looking at each and every of the glories of the Lord will have two effects on the believer.

Effect #1

The first is that we are so undeserving, so far from the mark, so unworthy of any recognition by the Master that His kindness towards us becomes unfathomable. To become more familiar with all His beauty and grace, with His matchless character and humble kindness, is to find our place in this universe.

Effect #2

The second is like that, in that whoever we honor, whoever is our ideal, our model, our god, is who we actually aspire to be. It is a characteristic of the human psyche to aspire to be like our hero, and our consistent gazing at our Risen Savior, at His patience with sinners, at His kindness to those who persecuted Him, at His suffering even for His enemies, which places the challenge before each of us to be like Him.

For God to be the God of our Lives does not require perfection, does not require obedience to a set of rules, does not require faithfulness to specific doctrines or teachings that may be found in the Word.

It is to follow a Person, to know the Living God in all His perfections, in all His character, as described in the Written Word.

Take time to look to Him today, and in the looking you will be changed. If He is the God of our lives, and as we gaze upon Him, we will be transformed, for He is the God of our lives.

He is the One who saves, provides, guides, supplies and comforts and from this verse, we find He also transforms us little by little into more of His likeness!

Now that is good news!

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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  3. Do you mind if I repost this and others in this series to our pastors and leaders who are ministry partners with CMIU Ministries on 1)our blog, 2)Messenger and WhatsApp Pastors and leaders Christian Networking sites around the World (4), and 3) also on the our CMIU Ministries International Facebook Group site(www.facebook.com/groups/comecministriesinternational/)? We have Ministry partners throughout India, Pakistan, the Philippines,

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