Embraced by the Father

The Creator/Maker has sole rights over what He created. Because God is perfect, is love, is all-knowing, all wise, and etc., He will not abuse that right. He has fashioned and designed us and the universe in a way that is perfect and totally complete. Nothing has been left out! That affects me by causing to once again declare that He is Lord over my life because His ways are always perfect. I was fashioned in His image with perfection. So often the evil one tries to take me down and whisper in my ear how foolish I was or point out flaws in my personality. But I can hold my head up high and declare that the One who made me "makes no junk." I am the Delight of my Maker and He delights in me. Because He is my Creator and the One who designed me, He also gave me a purpose to live. He has put me here on earth at this appointed time and at this appointed place. He has a plan for my life and He designed me for a specific purpose! When I step outside of that purpose, my joy decreases. I then come back to Him in talk with Him about how to get back into His purpose and plan. I rejoice that He is always patient in taking my hand and guiding me in the right direction.

A pot has no creating abilities of its own; it is only a vessel or container. God created us exactly perfectly with every organ and cell designed to do its unique job. When our first child was born, I was awed at the perfection that was displayed in her body, both externally and internally. What reason would there be to want to be dissatisfied with such a beautiful creation? We all want to know what is ahead for our future. God knows the future and is asking us, his children, to ask Him concerning things that is yet to come. God urges us to seek the Scriptures and to inquire of Him in prayer. The Geneva Study Bible quote: Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. When we have questions about our future or any of His Created works, we can go to Him and ask. We can rest, knowing God has all things held securely in his loving hands.

David was able to face Goliath because he knew that he served a living God. His God was faithful and powerful. He had a relationship with God and had experienced the mighty power of God while attending sheep. Now Goliath was another threat, and David could call upon God again, knowing that God would come to his aid. Hebrews 10:31 is talking about people who have rejected the grace and mercy that God has provided through Christ. It is a total falling away and refusal to accept Christ, our Savior. When one of his children rejects Him, God is very much grieved and sorrowful. Severe punishment follows and that lost one dies without mercy. How dreadful that would be. God's rejected mercy and grace calls for vengeance! Anyone who is in that situation of continual rejection of God ought to be in great fear and dread for the upcoming judgment upon him. But for those who seek after God and accept His offer of salvation, God will not cast out. They will be saved and live with Him into eternity. Hebrews 10:39

The words "Alpha and Omega," the first and the last, is too small of a definition of God because it is limiting. "First and Last" suggests that there was a beginning and there will be an end of God. That is not true! Even though my natural mind cannot understand, I believe that God always was and always will be. He is the "I AM" or "Everlasting" God. He is El Olam - everlasting, never ending, the Eternal God. He inhabits eternity in the past and in the future. Doesn't those two words, alpha and omega, contradict the true nature of "I AM" by implying that God had a beginning and an ending? The same seems to be implied in "Ancient of Days" because this suggests that a time element is linked to God as if there is an amount of days past - ancient - that identifies when God first began. It is an "ancient number of days." God is not caught up in time as we know it on earth. There are no hours, days, or years with God. It is a term we use in the natural. Yet, how can we describe God without using our natural form of speaking and in our experiences of time? Yes, God is the Ancient of Days - but He is much more than that! He always was, is and always will be. There was no beginning as the phrase "ancient of days" seems to imply. I like the title "I AM who I AM" because no amount of English words will ever describe completely who God is. English words will always be too limiting for who God, Yahweh, completely is. He is the Great I AM. He is who He says He Is. By faith I believe that!

To "inhabit eternity" is difficult to comprehend what that will be like. To "inhabit eternity" means that I will not be changing in form or growing older. Just as God is who He is today, yesturday and tomorrow, I will also not be changing in a sense of growing older or taking on physical changes to my body. We can get so caught up on our physical appearances on earth, but in heaven we will for eternity, be what we are the second we step into heaven. We have changed our residence 10 times since we were married in the early 1970's. But we will "ihnabit eternity" forever without ever having to move to another location ever again! Our eternal place of residence will be ready for us to move into and will never have the need to replace the carpet, curtains or adjust the landscape! Here on earth I continually pray for "more of You" in my life or "open my spiritual eyes" so that I can experince you more fully. To "inhabit eternity" means that I will always be in the presence of Christ Jesus and I will be gazing upon Him forever. I have a flood of emotions when I think about inhabiting eternity with the Eternal God. I feel very humbled and very joyous at the same time. I cry in deep gratitude and laugh with extravagant joy. Praise is always be on my lips as I await the day He will welcome me with open arms. It is then that I will receive that embrace from my Heavenly Father in a fuller way than I do now. That embrace will be truely face to face. What glory! What praise!

Yahweh means "I am who I am." When first reading that definition, one would think that it is a useless definition. That definition is not a listing of qualities, verbs nor adjectives. Just "I am." Yet, I AM is everything that one would ever desire or need in a god. He has been, is now and will always be. No other god can claim that! Yahweh is living and always will be living. God is what He reveals himself to be. No human being can assign qualities to God like idol worshippers do. God is a God of revelation, not some dead rock that is shaped into some creature with assigned qualities. Idols had limited characteristics or powers: god of fertility, the sun god, the god of thunder, etc. But Yahweh is unlimited in his characteristics and power. He is a living God who chooses to reveal himself to his Children - us! In that revelation to us, we discover who the great I AM is.