Tonight's blog for April 14, 2013

Last night's blog ended with a discussion of light. From 1 John, we learn that "GOD is light". Today, we also

discussed the grammar of the sentence, that in the past folks have changed the word order to say that, "light is GOD." Some have turned the sentence, "GOD is love" around to say that "love is GOD." Please know that this really isn't just a silly way to play with words, but a foundational principle of the universe. You see, we believe that "GOD IS." That is our faith, that is our way of seeing the universe. 

"GOD IS" and since HE is the great I AM of Exodus, we can add any number of words to the sentence and come up with some of HIS attributes. GOD IS … good. GOD IS … lovely. GOD IS … the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. GOD IS … beautiful. GOD IS … fearful and holy. GOD IS … a consuming fire. While all these are true, our understanding of each word or phrase depends on how we see our GOD, our GOD who IS. We can know GOD better because HE has spoken to us today, one last time, through HIS Son, Jesus. Jesus, who also IS, and who was and who is to come! We even hear hints of this verb in a description of Jesus in Hebrews, "Jesus is the same, yesterday, today, and tomorrow! 

It might help you to see how this is shown in three words, faith, hope, and love. Faith is fact based, in that we have faith because of past performances, or our knowledge. Faith is head based and depends on our willingness to accept, mentally, that our world is orderly. Faith is assurance because of our observations. 

The second word is hope. Hope is future based. We have hope in what we can't see, but trust and believe in the good of the ONE who made us. I love being around people who hope. Never, never, never say anyone or anything is hopeless, or won't work, or is useless! GOD is able to prove you wrong!

The third word is love. Love is heart based. It stems our emotions. True love, agape' love inspires us to try great feats of activity or energy, even in the face of impossibility. "GOD is light, GOD is love, GOD is…" Do you see

how this all fits together? When we have a balance in our lives between these three wonderful words, we are well on the way to living a life in Jesus that He chose to live for us.  That is why we haven't chose to play church, or to worship politics, or to trust systems. GOD is light, and in Him is no darkness. Jesus is the light of the world. He said, about us, "You are the light of the world. …. Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven." 

GOD is light, Jesus is the light of the world, we are to shine HIS light so that GOD gets the glory. I am so blessed to be around light- givers and love- sharers and hope- providers. How is your light shining? GOD bless your saints tonight! big marv