The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Malachi 2:10,
"Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us?"
There are just a flood of thoughts that come to my mind as I read this verse. We have one Father. One God. Not two and not three. There is only one God who exists and he exists objectively. There is absolutely no room for the notion that God is whoever you make him out to be. He created us and we are simply not free to create him: we can't create God at all.
There is no Allah. There is no god of the Buddhists. There is no god of any of the worlds religions, save the God who brought us his word, the Bible. All supposed other "gods" are contrived, all made up. There is only the one true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. His one and only Son is Jesus Christ. Together with the person of the Holy Spirit, our God is referred to as the "Trinity". One God and only one. Listen to the Shema, "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one." Deuteronomy 6:4.
In that the only God has created all of us, those who embrace that one true God are the only ones in our society and culture who have a coherent foundation to embrace all mankind as equal and equally precious in God's sight. We learn from the Scriptures that all people share in the sacredness of life because God gave it and he has his plans, his agenda of building a family for himself of us. When Jesus Christ died that miserable death on the cross, he did it for all mankind. Each and every person who has lived and ever will live, "He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world." 1 John 2:2.
All he asks from us is that we put our faith and trust in him, "The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them."
The sacredness of our own individual lives finds its fulfillment, its completion, its intended goal, in becoming a child of the one and only God. The only way that happens is when we embrace him in faith and trust.
Just a few rambling thoughts on Malachi 2:10...
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just respond and let me know.
Trevor Fisk
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"Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us?"
There are just a flood of thoughts that come to my mind as I read this verse. We have one Father. One God. Not two and not three. There is only one God who exists and he exists objectively. There is absolutely no room for the notion that God is whoever you make him out to be. He created us and we are simply not free to create him: we can't create God at all.
There is no Allah. There is no god of the Buddhists. There is no god of any of the worlds religions, save the God who brought us his word, the Bible. All supposed other "gods" are contrived, all made up. There is only the one true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. His one and only Son is Jesus Christ. Together with the person of the Holy Spirit, our God is referred to as the "Trinity". One God and only one. Listen to the Shema, "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one." Deuteronomy 6:4.
In that the only God has created all of us, those who embrace that one true God are the only ones in our society and culture who have a coherent foundation to embrace all mankind as equal and equally precious in God's sight. We learn from the Scriptures that all people share in the sacredness of life because God gave it and he has his plans, his agenda of building a family for himself of us. When Jesus Christ died that miserable death on the cross, he did it for all mankind. Each and every person who has lived and ever will live, "He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world." 1 John 2:2.
All he asks from us is that we put our faith and trust in him, "The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them."
The sacredness of our own individual lives finds its fulfillment, its completion, its intended goal, in becoming a child of the one and only God. The only way that happens is when we embrace him in faith and trust.
Just a few rambling thoughts on Malachi 2:10...
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just respond and let me know.
Trevor Fisk
trevor.fisk@gmail.com
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