Daily Java: Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. (1 Chronicles 29:11.)
A God who is not all-powerful is not worth worshipping. God has to be over all and above all, exalted as head over all, or he can be no god at all.
Any god that can be manipulated, or second guessed, or bribed or anything is not a god.
It is weird to hear people talk about what God likes, or what Jesus would do if he were here today. God likes environmental causes, Jesus would drive a hybrid to save the environment, or be a vegetarian so as to not offend people, or this or that.
Any God that would pander to the desires and complaints of people would be false.
If the Bible is real, and I believe it is, it says that God is the holder of greatness and glory and majesty and splendor. His is everything in heaven and earth. His is the kingdom and he is exalted as head over all.
If any of these things are not true, then it is all a lie and we waste our time worshipping him. We might as well worship a stick picked up at random from the yard, or our car or our wife or anything else. If he is not god, he is not worth worshipping.
As the songs says, our God is an awesome God, and he reigns from heaven above. Our God is a God that is all-powerful, yet loves us. He operates independently of us and yet loves us. He hears us when we call out, yet he is not a catalog order service giving us whatever we want whenever we want it.
He is God, and he is above our desires and our wants. He wants the best for us, and he knows what is best. He is God.
And one thing about him. As the faun said in the Lion, Witch and Wardrobe, he is good but he is not safe. He will do whatever he wants when he wants to do it. After all, Job found that out.
Jesus was known for the fact that he made people really mad. The reason that Jesus was killed was not because of his fashion sense, or anything else. It was because he came to do the will of the Father who sent him. His mission, his mandate was from God, not people. He plain old did not care who he made mad, as long as he did the will of God.
The religious leaders of his day complained that he didn’t follow their interpretation of the laws, that he ate and drank with sinners, and in fact, that he ate and drank what they didn’t think he should eat and drink. He just did not do things the way they wanted. He did things the way God wanted, and God worked in him.
For it is God who works in us to will and to act according to his good purpose (Philippians 2:13). Trusting him is our act of faith. We know he knows what is best and we love him and know he loves us.
And we know he is God.
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