Saturday, August 8, 2015
Not Like Us
We are different from God in many ways. And yet we were originally created in His image.
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
When we walked away from Him in the garden, we lost part of that connection to being like Him. We are trying to get back to being like Him. And He will show us the way. As I was trying to think about the Sabbath, I thought about how we fall short in many ways, short of following our Father Yahuah. I was saddened as I thought about me and my own struggle from time to time to maintain doing the right things and wondered how Yahuah (Lord) could be willing to have me around.
Isaiah 55:6 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Here we see that God has always been merciful. He will pardon when we return to Yahuah (Lord). Why? Because His thoughts and ways are not like us. Where we might not pardon, He will. God has always been love.
Prayer
Father, we love you. You are our King. When we think of Your kingdom, we long for it to be here. We praise the name Yahuah! Send us today Your overwhelming provision such that it overflows from us to others. Forgive us our sins. Heal up our hearts. Deliver us from the oppression that tries to steal from us what we have received from You. Rise up and come in Your strength for Your people today Yahuah (Lord). We ask these things in the name of Messiah Yeshuah. Amen.