Mighty God! A Wonderful Counselor that is also Mighty? YES! This is the King of kings! He is not a man-made "guessing-game" type of god who oversees varying parts of our world and culture. No, He is intimate and real, and His headship rules over our entire universe - all time, space, matter - everything we know and do not know. He has all power over all things at all times and in all ways. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient... the Almighty... the great I AM.
I AM the Bread of Life (John 6:35, 1, 48, 51)
I AM the Light of the World (John 8:12)
I AM the Door of the Sheep (John 10:7,9)
I AM the Good Shepherd (John 10:11, 14)
I AM the Resurrection and the Life (John 11:25)
I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life (John 14:6)
I AM the True Vine (John 15: 1,5)... His might goes on and on!
This Mighty God, Who was, and is, and is to come, humbly gives himself TO US... offering Himself as Savior. To us... He declares Himself Messiah and bids every man, woman and child to receive Him (and ONLY Him) in order to escape the clutches of death. For without Jesus, all life would perish. And He proves His love daily by providing us everything we need for food, clothing and shelter - all from renewable resources sustained by His power as the preserver of man and beast! In fact, scripture tells us in Job 38 that the seas which cover most of the earth, and over which we are powerless, would overwhelm us if God did not proscribe their limits. Read God's Words spoken to Job... read what He rules and oversees each day - FOR US!
“Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone - while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place, when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’? Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it? The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment. The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken. Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness? Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this. What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside? Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings? Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years! Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail, which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle? What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth? Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm, to water a land where no one lives, an uninhabited desert, to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass? Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew? From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen? Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion’s belt? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth? Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water? Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’? Who gives the ibis wisdom or gives the rooster understanding? Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together? Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket? Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food? Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn? Do you count the months till they bear? Do you know the time they give birth? They crouch down and bring forth their young; their labor pains are ended. Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds; they leave and do not return. Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied its ropes? I gave it the wasteland as its home, the salt flats as its habitat. It laughs at the commotion in the town; it does not hear a driver’s shout. It ranges the hills for its pasture and searches for any green thing. Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will it stay by your manger at night? Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness? Will it till the valleys behind you? Will you rely on it for its great strength? Will you leave your heavy work to it? Can you trust it to haul in your grain and bring it to your threshing floor? The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, though they cannot compare with the wings and feathers of the stork. She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand, unmindful that a foot may crush them, that some wild animal may trample them. She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers; she cares not that her labor was in vain, for God did not endow her with wisdom or give her a share of good sense. Yet when she spreads her feathers to run, she laughs at horse and rider. Do you give the horse its strength or clothe its neck with a flowing mane? Do you make it leap like a locust, striking terror with its proud snorting? It paws fiercely, rejoicing in its strength, and charges into the fray. It laughs at fear, afraid of nothing; it does not shy away from the sword. The quiver rattles against its side, along with the flashing spear and lance. In frenzied excitement it eats up the ground; it cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds. At the blast of the trumpet it snorts, ‘Aha!’ It catches the scent of battle from afar, the shout of commanders and the battle cry. Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom and spread its wings toward the south? Does the eagle soar at your command and build its nest on high? It dwells on a cliff and stays there at night; a rocky crag is its stronghold. From there it looks for food; its eyes detect it from afar. Its young ones feast on blood, and where the slain are, there it is.” The LORD said to Job: “Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who accuses God answer him!” Then Job answered the LORD: “I am unworthy - how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth. I spoke once, but I have no answer - twice, but I will say no more.” (Job 38, 39, 40:1-5)
Clearly, nothing is too hard for the Lord, ladies! Clearly nobody is as mighty or holds the power of THIS GOD. Everyday, let us remember to celebrate His authority. Let us rejoice always, acknowledging His sovereign reign! Let us be grateful for His undeserved mercy and grace. We are blessed because He loves us!!! As His people, let us lay aside all distraction of false gods, of all idols, of all Antichrist. Let us live our lives looking upward to His leadership, living as His devoted. Living for the One who brings us LIFE - the true Savior and King, Jesus Christ the Lord! Hallelujah to the King of kings for He is mighty to save and redeem us from our sin! He is very real! He is Yahweh, Jehovah, the living God!
The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. Therefore, since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone – an image made by man’s design and skill. (Acts 17:24-25, 29)
To us... to us, this King has come to earth as a lowly man in order to sacrifice and save... in order to give His people everlasting LIFE! This is JESUS THE MIGHTY CHRIST...
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death - even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:6-11)
Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not look to the proud, to those who turn aside to false gods. (Psalm 40:4)
As the Lord zealously gives Himself to us, let us unreservedly give ourselves today (and every day)... TO JESUS!
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come! (Revelation 4:8)
Merry, Merry Christmas and Blessings in Jesus' Holy Name!
~Victoria
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