{"id":3015,"date":"2020-09-24T09:36:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T15:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2020-09-24T09:36:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T15:36:55","slug":"thoughts-from-the-bible-09-23-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/?p=3015","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from The Bible: &#8211; 09\/23\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our God is an awesome God<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>by Terry Broome<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our young people have a devotional song that declares these wonderful words: \u201cOur God Is An Awesome God.\u201d<!--more--> Indeed, He is an awesome God! There are qualities about Him that compel our most reverential respect for His power and glory. What a striking personality He is. Our loving Heavenly Father is not a tyrant or impersonal being, but rather one who urges us to come to Him. He\u2019s made it easy and provided the way to approach Him through Jesus Christ. We can now come reverently as well as boldly before His throne of grace to petition for His help in our times of need. Heb. 4:14-16, \u201cSeeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That approach is only made possible through Jesus Christ. One cannot expect a hearing from this loving, Heavenly Father, who is not in a covenant relationship with the Christ. We are, after all, \u201c&#8230;. children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ\u201d (Galatians 3:26-27 NKJV). For all of us who are so eager to ask God\u2019s help during a stressful time in our lives, we should ponder the significance of being in the right relationship with Him which entitles us to call Him Father. Unfaithfulness in one\u2019s Christian life voids our guarantee of His listening ear. \u201cIf I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:\u201d (Psalms 66:18).<\/p>\n<p>Ponder these great words of comfort for those who are in the right relationship with Him: The message of Psalms 46 is that we can find our refuge in God. David triumphantly proclaims in Psalms 116:1 that God \u201chas heard my voice.\u201d In turn he was willing to \u201cwait for the Lord\u201d in Psalms 130:5. After Habakkuk cried out to the Lord, \u201chow long wilt thou not hear?\u201d (Hab. 1:1), he resolves in 2:1 to \u201cwatch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.\u201d In essence he resolves to listen to the answer that he knew God would make to him.<\/p>\n<p>In the New Testament, the colors and traits of God are clearly seen in the form of Jesus Christ. John 14:9 \u201c&#8230;he that hath seen me hath seen the Father.\u201d There is clarity in Jesus saying \u201cFor God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son&#8230;\u201d (John 3:16). Jesus reasons with gentleness and penetrating power in Matthew 6:26, \u201cBehold the fowls of the air&#8230;.\u201d and \u201cconsider the lilies of the field&#8230;.\u201d (3:28). God provides for them. Will He not much more provide for us? \u201cWherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? (Matt. 6:30). We must understand how much God cares for us. He knows our \u201cwants\u201d and supplies for our \u201cneeds\u201d (Matt. 6:32).<\/p>\n<p>The personality of God reveals that He is searching for you. Jesus died for each of us on the cross. It\u2019s the Father who cares who calls us, \u201cCome Home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The author can be reached for comments at 256-574-2489.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our God is an awesome God by Terry Broome Our young people have a devotional song that declares these wonderful words: \u201cOur God Is An Awesome God.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}