Real God

Our God is Real

A great deal of people do not believe that there is a God Who would have been there for ever and would have created our universe. Several people have made themselves gods from events of elements in nature, like thunder, rain or sunshine, or have taken certain trees or animals as their gods. Other people preferred looking at their own sort and found people they want to honour as their gods.

The whole world in the end shall have to come to know that there is Only One True God, Who is One and Who is above all the gods of this earth and above all rulers, kings and princes. The same as the earth and sky are a reality, the Elohim Hashem Jehovah, is not only a reality, but the Cause of everything we see around us. Without That unseen eternal Being nothing can exist. He is The Being Itself. As the "I Am that I Am" is He the provider of the Breath of life, for plants, animals and human beings.

The big problem concerning the Only Real God is that He can not be seen by human beings.

“ And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for man shall not see me and live.” (Ex 33:20 ASV)

“ and ye said, Behold, Jehovah our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth speak with man, and he liveth.” (De 5:24 ASV)

“ God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” (Joh 4:24 ASV)

In the things we can see around us, the mountains, the flowers, the streaming waters, all the wonders of nature we can see the Power of God. For thousands of years there were men who spoke in the Divine Creator His Name. They even told about things long before they were going to happen, so that people could come to see and understand that their words were not theirs but of The One They spoke off. Those prophets told and did incredible things. One of the later prophets, who came from Nazareth told the people around him that the One Who had sent him was real.

“ Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.” (Joh 7:28 ASV)

“ I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you: howbeit he that sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these speak I unto the world.” (Joh 8:26 ASV)

“ and ye have not known him: but I know him; and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be like unto you, a liar: but I know him, and keep his word.” (Joh 8:55 ASV)

It is important for the whole world that they shall come to know and to recognise that real God.

Enough has been written to show that, far from being vague and shadowy, the portrait of God in the Bible is full of detail. The Lord God Almighty is not only eternal in nature and majestic in power; He is a God who deals in the realities of the world and of human nature. Having begun by creating the human race to dwell upon the earth, He has pursued ever since His resolute purpose "to take out of the nations a people for his name". That purpose is now approaching its climax when, with the return of His Son to the earth in times of great perplexity and fear, His Name will be known from one end of the world to the other in preparation for the day when

"... the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea" (Habakkuk 2:14).

Meantime, what of us who desire to be His faithful servants and to wait in patient service for the revelation of that day? Here are two New Testament statements which are very enlightening:

"God (is) our Saviour, who willeth that all men should be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth" (1 Timothy 2:3,4).

"God is longsuffering to us-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9).

The first striking thought that emerges is that of the gracious will of God towards mankind. He desires the welfare of them all, that they should live and not die. But the second is that He requires some action of them. He has revealed His saving truth in His Word, the Bible, and He expects them to get to know what it is. That truth, in the gospel proclaimed by Christ and the apostles, will inevitably bring them to recognise their own shortcomings in a "change of mind", which is what repentance means. And that in turn will bring them into relationship with the God of heaven, with eventually the great prize of eternal life for faithful service.

In short, God is so real that He is proposing to alter the basic reality of our human nature with all its suffering and death, into another like His own and like that of His Son. This God cannot be ignored. His Word is waiting to be opened and read. What are we waiting for?

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