Category: Meditations

Meditations on Our God

I wrote these meditations on God while working through some thoughts that I would share with my local assembly. They are short because I didn’t want them to be deep theological or philosophical works but I also wanted to acknowledge that there is deep theology and philosophy that is assumed.

I may not use the very large words but, as an outgrowth from both Scripture and church history, I hoped to encourage the saints in my local assembly with meditations on the glories of our incomparable God.

Knowing that Our Triune God Created Everything

God, in all three persons, created everything. Anything that exists owes existence to God.

The Lord alone made all things (Isaiah 44:24)
There is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things (1 Cor 8:6)
All the hosts of heaven made by the word and by the breath [Spirit] of His mouth. (Psalm 33:6)

These passages show us that God, in all three persons, made physical stuff AND spiritual beings.

We also know that God didn’t have to do this. He wasn’t forced by necessity or something lacking in the Godhead. He freely decided to do this and shared his nature through that creation.

Man and Woman are a picture of God (Gen 1:26-27)
The stars declare God’s glory (Psalm 19:1-6)
Creation reveals God’s invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity (Rom 1:20)

Go outside on a clear dark night. Or Stand on a high mountain and look out. Or look down while your plane is taking off. Revel in the wonder of God’s creation!

Holy, holy, holy: Lord God Almighty! All Thy works shall praise Thy name in earth and sky and sea. Holy, holy, holy: Merciful and mighty! God in three persons, blessed Trinity

Knowing that Our Triune God is Eternal

When we think about God and His creation, we sometimes let our ideas become as wild as something from a space movie. But the Bible gives us the real story. God tells us:

That He lives forever (Isaiah 57:15)
That He exists from everlasting to everlasting (Psalm 93:2)

When we see God at work in the Bible we see that:

God was there at the start (Genesis 1:1) and will be there at the end (Revelation 22:13)

And when He speaks of Himself in all three persons he says:

God was here before everything and will last through everything (Psalm 90:2)
The Son was here before everything and keeps everything going (Col 1:17)
The Holy Spirit was there at the start (Genesis 1:2) and always knows what God is thinking (1 Cor 2:11)

We should not mistake what 2 Peter 3:8 says—that one day is like a thousand years to God—to mean that one ‘God day’ is actually a thousand years for us. What Peter means is that God, who knows everything, is all-wise, all-powerful, and lives forever, doesn’t keep our agenda! This is great news! It means God, who created everything, isn’t far away. He’s here with us now, will be there waiting for us at the end, and promises to be with us always.

Savior, our only joy be though, as Thou our crown shalt be; Be Thou, O Lord, our glory now, and through eternity!