Attending the funeral of a friend’s father, I heard the song “Sovereign Over Us” for the first time and tears began to stream down my face. Your plans are still to prosper, You have not forgotten us.You’re with us in the fire and the flood.You’re faithful forever, perfect in love, You are sovereign over us….
Whiteout weather is severe snowfall that blinds and disorients anyone unfortunate enough to be in it. Depth perception, contrast, and visual cues disappear; and the freezing glare is so strong, it can shock people with intense pain. It is literally overwhelming. Such is God’s holiness to depraved man. Holiness means set apart in perfection, and…
“In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” – 1…
“Grace is His goodness directed toward human debt and demerit. It is by His grace that God imputes merit where none previously existed and declares no debt to be where one had been before. Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines Him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving.” – A.W. Tozer All of…
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.” – Matthew 5:7 Not long after the Israelites fashioned a golden calf and broke the first commandment, God told Moses to make two new tablets of stone, just like the ones Moses had broken after discovering Israel’s idolatry. And the Lord passed before Moses and proclaimed,…
“Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.” – Psalm 89:14 “God’s compassion flows out of His goodness, and goodness without justice is not goodness. God spares us because He is good, but He could not be good if He were not just.” – A.W. Tozer “How…
An inherent attribute of God is His goodness. In our day, we use the word good casually and it can mean all sorts of things. A.W. Tozer helps us define it: “The goodness of God is that which disposes Him to be kind, cordial, benevolent, and full of good will toward men. He is tenderhearted…
Faithfulness is an attribute of God that we would be hopeless without. In Hebrew, the word for “faithfulness” means firmness, steadfastness, fidelity, and steadiness. God is steadfast, unmoving, and secure. He can be relied on. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever; He does not change (Hebrews 13:8; Malachi 3:6). This means His Word…
“Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall…
Transcendence. The quality or state of being beyond comprehension, according to Webster. In meditating upon this quality of God, we rightly wrestle with concepts that our finite human minds struggle to comprehend: a Being with no beginning and no end, a Being that is altogether perfectly holy and just with no possibility of corruption, a…