Who is God?

We have started a new series at church called “Who is God?” If you had to define God, how would you do it? Last week, I encouraged us to consider the whole picture of God, His kindness and His severity.  He is both a loving Father and a righteous Judge, who is to be feared.  Let us not take lightly His lovingkindness, His majesty and His holiness.    

I read this week that the Israelites of Biblical times had such a fear of God that they considered His name Yahweh too holy to be spoken by human lips.  Additionally, if His name needed to be written, the scribes would take a bath before they wrote it and destroy the pen afterward.  They had such an incredible respect, a holy fear of the God we serve.  May we show Him the same respect and reverence, standing in awe of His holiness.   And as we have this proper attitude toward the Lord, we can take comfort in the fact that we serve a big God.  As we fear God, we need not fear man, or what man can do to us, because our God reigns.  He is omnipotent; He is omniscient, and we can rest in His all-consuming presence.