I have an awesome God

For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised; He is also to be feared above all gods. - 1 Chronicles 

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God is an awesome God!

He first called forth light and light is still going forth to places beyond our wildest imagination. This light is not the natural sun light that most of us are familiar with for this "Light" is Jesus Himself. Jesus is there in the beginning and in all things He exists and all things exist for Him. All things were made for Him!

Isn't it interesting that God made man on the sixth day after He had created all other things and living creatures for man to have dominion over. If God had created man on the very first day, man would be living in complete darkness. He would have no natural light to see. He would have no land to stand upon. He would have no food to eat as well! Now that would have been a terrible thought.

Yet God made man on the sixth day so that man can enjoy all that God has created. Man was made to enjoy all that God has for him. He is to rest in God and just bask in God's great love. Man is called to have dominion over all created things and to live a long good life without death. He is called to be fruitful and "to bring joy" to God for God has great joy when He sees His wonderfully and awesomely made man enjoying all that He has for him.

Yet man sinned against God by partaking of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. With that single rebellious act against God, man has surrendered his authority on earth to the accuser, satan himself. 

Praised God this act of man didn't catch Him by surprise. He knows man would sin against Him yet He made man with a free will and He doesn't overrule that free will of man even though He has every power to do so. He will not take away that free will for He is a righteous God! God respects man's decisions, even his choice to sin against God.

God has a redemptive plan in place long before man would sin against God. He so loved the world that He IS willing to send His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us at the cross. He will take back the authority that Adam has lost righteously through Christ Jesus, our Lord and great Redeemer.

He sent His Son to redeem all mankind and yet man still, on his own free choice, choose to sin against God. God didn't see how man rebel against Him but only sees the perfection of the redemptive work of His Son, Jesus Christ, at the cross. He sees the precious blood of Jesus being shed at the cross for the sins of man. He sees the sinless body of Jesus being broken for our wholeness. He sees the shalom peace of Jesus being bequeathed to His creations which are made in the perfect image of Him! Hallelujah!

God no longer remembers our sins and our transgressions against Him for all the punishment has been bore by Jesus at the cross. And His single perfect obedience at the cross redeems us from eternal damnation forever! Prase God for He is awesome to be prasied. Hallelujah!