by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Worship
“I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.” (Isaiah 42:8) The Lord alone possesses absolute glory. Every perfection belongs to Him without measure or limitation, and every work of salvation proceeds...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Attributes of God, Covenant
“If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.” (2 Timothy 2:13) The faithfulness of God rests entirely in His own unchanging nature. He is faithful because faithfulness is His very being. He cannot cease to be what He eternally is....
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Jesus Christ, Man's Nature, Salvation
“Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.” (1 Peter 1:2) In the first chapter of his first epistle Peter shares...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Attributes of God, Jesus Christ, Son of God
“Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.” (1 Peter 2:23) The patience of Christ in the wake of the onslaught of His accusers is one of the clearest displays of...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Attributes of God, Jesus Christ, Providence
“For it is the day of the LORD’S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Creation, Spiritual Warfare
“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.” (Romans 8:22) Everywhere we turn, we see evidence of the fall—decay, suffering, conflict, and death. Creation itself seems to testify that it was never intended to remain under...
