Who is God?

The fact that you are searching for His will shows that your growth in Messiah is beginning, and beginning in the right way, "His" way. So let’s begin with understanding the basic basics.

Who is G-d?

Do you remember when Moses went to see the great Pharaoh of Egypt? Moses got laughed at as Pharaoh snickered and said to Moses “Who is the Lord that I should listen to Him?” 

Exodus 5:1,2 … Moses and Aaron went to see Pharaoh. They told him, "This is what the LORD, the G-d of Israel , says: 'Let My people go, for they must go out into the wilderness to hold a religious festival in My honor.'"  "Is that so?" retorted Pharaoh. "And who is the LORD that I should listen to Him and let Israel go? I don't know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go."

This is a valid question isn’t it? If you had to answer the question of who is G-d, what would you say?

Just as it is difficult to understand infinity because everything we experience is finite, it is difficult to understand G-d and eternity because of the limitations of our minds. Remember, we think of everything in linear terms. ie: having a beginning and an end, or a starting point and an ending point, or a starting time and an ending time. But G-d is literally outside of time and space as we are able to perceive it. Therefore, He is not constrained by time or space as we are. That is why He can know what is going to happen tomorrow because it has literally already happened from where He stands. Science has now proven that there are at least ten dimensions but we can only perceive four. 

Since G-d already knows things that we can’t even perceive of, those of us that follow His direction just seem to have things work out. Some call it luck, some call it coincidence, I call it blessed by being obedient. When you learn to sto p t hinking about what if this, and yeh but that, and just start trusting, watch what happens! G-d loves you, knows what is best beyond your ability to understand, and He will take care of you if you will just cooperate.

G-d promises that all things will be made clear when we get to heaven and spend eternity with Him. He tells us a few things about Himself in these passages:

1 Corinthians 13:12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as G-d knows me now.

Remember the question was who is G-d… This is what G-d says about Himself:

Isaiah 45:7-11, 21-23 I am the One who creates the light and makes the darkness. I am the One who sends good times and bad times. I, the LORD, am the One who does these things. Open up, O heavens, and pour out your righteousness. Let the earth open wide so salvation and righteousness can sprout u p t ogether. I, the LORD, created them. "Destruction is certain for those who argue with their Creator. Does a clay pot ever argue with its maker? Does the clay dispute with the one who shapes it, saying, 'Stop, you are doing it wrong!’ Does the pot exclaim, 'How clumsy can you be!' How terrible it would be if a newborn baby said to its father and mother, 'Why was I born? Why did you make me this way?'" This is what the LORD, the Creator and Holy One of Israel , says: "Do you question what I do? Do you give Me orders about the work of My hands? I am the One who made the earth and created people to live on it. With My hands I stretched out the heavens. All the millions of stars are at My command. For there is no other G-d but Me – a just G-d and a Savior – no, not one! Let all the world look to Me for salvation! For I am G-d; there is no other. I have sworn by My own name, and I will never go back on My word: Every knee will bow to Me, and every tongue will confess allegiance to My name."

Acts 17:24,25 "He is the G-d who made the world and everything in it. Since He is Lord of heaven and earth, He doesn't live in man-made temples, and human hands can't serve His needs – for He has no needs. He Himself gives life and breath to everything, and He satisfies every need there is.”

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