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 and Mighty God |
| Jeremiah 32:18 You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the LORD of hosts, |
| Jeremiah is watching the complete decimation of his beloved nation, falling under the judgement of the hand of God. He is praying for understanding in this passage, even as the Babylonians are at the doorstep of the city of Jerusalem. Jeremiah 32:24 Behold, the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you spoke has come to pass, and behold, you see it. Jeremiah was living in circumstances that would provide abundant fuel for a critical, complaining spirit. Jeremiah was not of that spirit however, having lived a life of the prophet to the nations, and after calling the nation to repentance, experienced the beginning of the captivity of his people. He is commonly known as the “weeping prophet”, and in many ways lived a life in similar circumstances as the Lord Jesus. Both men were prophets calling Israel back to the Lord, and both prophets saw the rejection of their message. For all of this disappointment, discouragement and despair, Jeremiah had his eyes beyond the circumstances as he prayed for understanding. The circumstances he lived in did not change who he worshipped, for as he prayed, he prayed, not to the God who was wringing his hands in desperation, or the god who had lost control, or even the god who was surprised by the situation, but by the Great and Mighty God, the God who is without comparison. We worship the Great and Mighty God. Remember that He is on the Throne when things are crashing about in your life, when everything seems unstable and on the brink of disaster. Jeremiah was in the midst of the greatest catastrophe in the life of his nation. And he prayed to the Great and Mighty God, the One who not only delivered the Israelites from Egypt, from Babylon and eventually from Rome, but was the flesh and blood Son of God who took our sin away. In the grand scheme of all of God’s great and mighty works, we can delegate to a secondary level the building and falling of nations as Jeremiah was seeking answers to. The great and mighty work of our Great and Mighty God is the removal from the sinner of the guilt of sin, the power of sin, and eventually the sinner from the very presence of sin. That is the great work of our Great and Mighty God, a God who bled and died to accomplish such a feat! Praise God! |
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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