Christian Biblical Foundations Series 002 – GOD – The Reason for our Existence

GOD :- THE REASON FOR OUR EXISTENCE
God is so great for human beings to be able to fully understand His nature. He has no beginning or end. His is Omnipotent – all powerful, Omniscient –all knowing. Job 11:7 – “Can you solve the mysteries of God? Can you discover everything about the Almighty?” The study of Theology endeavors to study and understand God. However the truth is that the human mind cannot fully grasp the full nature of God. It is impossible to know everything about God.
Isaiah 66:1 – “This is what the Lord says: Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool. Could you build me a temple as good as that? Could you build me a resting place?” God’s greatness is incomprehensible to the human mind. Both the heavens and the earth cannot fully contain him. He is truly an awesome God.
Psalms 47:8
“God reigns above the nations. Sitting on his holy throne.”
There is no power, authority or government above God. He rules all powers and authorities in heaven and earth.
GOD’S NATURE
HE IS THE CREATOR
Nehemiah 9:6 – “You alone are the Lord. You made the skies and the heavens and all the stars. You made the earth and the seas and everything in them. You preserve them all, and the angels of heaven worship you.”
God created all that is seen and unseen; he made the entire universe for his glory. Some scientist claim that the earth just began with the “big bang”. What they cannot explain is who or what caused the” big bang”. They are also at a loss to explain the harmony in the patterns of the entire universe and how everything perfectly holds together in our universe as is the reality of our solar system. The universe is like a well-designed masterpiece of art with every required detail in place. The ‘big bang’ theory {just a theory no tangible facts} explanations leaves more questions than answers. It is clear that the entire universe was well designed and created. The creator is God, Almighty.

GOD IS OMNIPOTENT (ALL POWERFUL)
1 Chronicles 29:11 “Yours, O lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory the victory and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on the earth is yours, O Lord and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things.”
This scriptures following attributes to God :-
Greatness: does mighty acts, full of dignity, outstanding of great importance and eminence.
Power: strength, might, valour, bravery, force, great control and influence. The source of all force and power for functioning, doing or engaging. Governing the entire universe.
Glory: beauty, splendor, finery (of garments, jewels), State of high honor, brilliant radiant beauty, glory of rank, glory of renown.
Victory: Successful in all endeavors, eminence, perpetuity, strength, enduring in life, endurance of time, perpetual, continual to the end, everlastingness.
Majesty: greatly impressive, splendor, vigour, grandeur, imposing form of appearance, beauty, comeliness, Excellency, glorious, glory, goodly, honour.
GOD IS OMNISCIENT (ALL KNOWING)
Hebrews 4:13 “Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.” KJV
“And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do” BBE TRANSALATION
“No creation can hide from him, but everyone is exposed and helpless before the eyes of the one to whom we must give a word of explanation.”

The scriptures above clearly indicate that there is absolutely nothing that is hidden from God. Everything to Him is crystal clear. He has complete and absolute perspective of everything in the universe.

1 John 3:20 “if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts and knows everything. ISV
God even knows the deep private thoughts of our hearts. He has privy knowledge of our intentions and motives and not just our outward actions.

GOD IS HOLY
1 Sam 2:2 “There is none holy as the Lord for there is none besides you, there is no rock like our God”.
God is in a level and class of His own. He is perfectly holy. The bible clearly states that there is no other God, but Him. The bible compares God to a strong stable Rock. Holiness is God’s unique attribute. The bible declares that we can compare God to non-other.
Being Holy means to be set apart and sacred.

GOD IS SPIRIT
John 4:24 “God is Spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” ISV, that is HE is normally not visible with the physical eye and does not appear in a physical body. Except when he took the form of a human body in the person of Jesus Christ in order to fulfill the governing spiritual laws and save humanity from sin and restore the authority the first Adam had lost to the devil in the Garden of Eden. God had given man dominion and authority to rule the earth. The devil deceived him and usurped his authority and because the first man had lost his authority only another man could restore back the lost authority. God took human form in the person of Jesus Christ and became the second Adam, the first of a new breed of men who would have authority over the enemy, who is the devil.
Apart from the above incident, God is Spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

MAN CAN RELATE TO GOD PERSONALLY
This is a foreign concept to many world religions whose concept of God, is an impersonal God that is far removed from mortal activities and can only be accessed through prophets, special saints, angels, other spirit beings and rigorous religious activities such as prayer and fasting, meditation etc. The God of the bible is accessible to all who desire to reach him and relate to him personally anytime any place.
James 4:8 “Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.” BBE

GOD IS LOVE
He declares in His word that he is Love and loves His creation. You can correctly summarize the bible as a “love story”, of a loving God chasing after His beloved creation with love.
1 John 3:1 “Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knewth him not.
God has adopted as to be his sons. He desires that our relationship with him be that of Father and son. A relationship of strong love. My study of different world religions has revealed that the way their faithfuls relate to their ‘God’, is in great contrast to the way Christians relate to the God of the bible. We find that in most religions the actions of the followers is based on fear of the deity they worship. They are obligated to obey the teachings of their respective religions and if they fail to do so they will be repercussions and consequences. So the relationship with their God is based on fear. However in Christianity the driving force to obedience is not driven by fear, but by the character of a loving caring God. The motivation to obey and serve in Christianity is based on a relationship with a loving father. God has loved us so much , done so much for us and blessed us with what we did not deserve. Therefore we gladly and willing relate to Him based on Love not fear.

CONCLUSION
Hence as we conclude it is important to know that we are God’s creation. God is so great and cannot be contained in any building or sanctuary. We belong to Him. We are God’s property; hence it will benefit us to know His will for us. (1 Cor 6:19 -20). Finally and most importantly we were created to worship and adore Him. Our greatest purpose in life is to worship God. (Rev 4:11)