“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,”
says the Lord,
“who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Revelation 1:8
God is the beginning and the end of all. He is the One who was, and is, and is to come. He is God Almighty and our only hope is in Him.
As followers of Jesus, our hope for eternity is completely dependent on a righteous God with a standard of perfection, but at the same time a God who is full of grace.
Placing our faith in Him changes our course for eternity and launches a lifelong pursuit of growing in our knowledge of Him and in our relationship with Him. That’s the reason we study the Bible!
Consider these charges brought against the Israelites by God, using Hosea as His mouthpiece:
Hear the word of the Lord, You children of Israel,
For the Lord brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land:
“There is no truth or mercy
Or knowledge of God in the land.”
Hosea 4:1 (NJKV)
Could the same be said of our land? We who claim to know God – is there truth and mercy and knowledge of God in our land? In our churches? In our homes? In our individual lives?
I think it’s time for us to woman up and take our faith seriously! Are we women of God … or little girls?
No matter where we find ourselves in our knowing of Him, there is still more to know.
Easter is coming. The highest of all holidays for followers of Christ. I want to invite you to join me in celebrating Easter by endeavoring to know God better by Easter than you do today. One of the best ways (if not the best) to do that is to study His Word.
As we choose to get to know God better, we can examine His many names in Scripture. Biblical names are more than just “name tags” – they provide insight into character and nature.
Come join me in writing the Word and simultaneously getting to know God more deeply. Try using these new names to address Him in prayer, to acknowledge both who He is and what He has done.
Here’s a little experiment before you begin: open your journal (or get a piece of paper) and write out as many names for God as you can think of. Set it aside. Then, during Easter week, complete this same exercise again. See how much you have grown through learning more names to use as you address – and praise – our amazing God!
Let’s wrap up by examining and marveling over this prayer, offered by Jesus the Son in earthly flesh to God the Father in heaven:
Now this is eternal life:
that they may know you, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
John 17:3
Jesus defines eternal life as knowing Him!
Are you ready to commit to knowing Him more and more each day?
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Write The Word: Names of God — Standard Bookmark
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Write The Word: WORSHIP — S.O.A.P. Study Pages
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