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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| GREAT POWER |
| Deuteronomy 9:29 For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.’ |
| Israel had sinned. And sinned And sinned again. Moses is recalling the times of failure for the nation of Israel. This time of remembrance for the nation is summed up as Moses calls the nation to remember in verse 7. Deuteronomy 9:7 Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD. Moses is blunt. He openly speaks of their failure, disobedience, rebellion, stubbornness and corruption. He reminds them of the judgement that was imminent from God and how God was willing to blot out their name from under heaven, completely destroying them in verse 14. Deuteronomy 9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’ They had no claim to the mercy of God in and of themselves. Death was their destiny if it hadn’t been for the exercise of His Great Power in bringing them out of Egypt. Not only were the Israelites drawn out from Egypt by the Great Power of God, their continued relationship with the God of Creation depended on the Great Power. Moses reminded God of the Great Power He exercised in delivering His people and spoke of His commitment to the people, and of His commitment to the Fathers of the nation, sinners though they be also. He also spoke of the hit the Lord would take if Israel were to “disappear”. All the nations would murmur and speak of how the Lord only sought to destroy the ones he delivered by His Great Power. Moses was reminding the Lord of His reputation before the nations. and that His treatment of the tiny nation of Israel would be seen far and wide by the nations. Moses reminded the Lord that a job started was a job that needed completion. The difficulty of the task, the rebellion of the people He was leading, did not negate the need to complete the task. Faithfulness was the challenge Moses brought before the Lord, a faithfulness to the promise He made to the Fathers, and a faithfulness to His own reputation before the nations. Did Israel deserve judgement? Yes. Would judgement occur in the future? Yes. Would the faithfulness of God to His people be abundantly evident before the nations? Yes. Now we know as believers, the Great Power of God in delivering the nation of Israel is the Savior, the only One who has provided a physical salvation to a rebellious nation, but also a spiritual salvation to a rebellious sinful people, those who have heard the voice of the Great Power and followed after Him. Have you heard the voice of the Great Power and decided to follow? |
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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One response to “Names of God – Great Power”
Howdy! You forgot to add the number 255 in your link for this post, like you have done for all the others. It’s in the text but not in the link. Blessings!
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