Thoughts for another day

Dec. 13, 2013.

Today's verse: 2 Cor. 4:6. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

To many in the world and even some Christians, Jesus, though they hold Him in high regard isn’t, just yet, God and with a bit of an apologetic flourish they add, I mean, not almost God!  And they’re not alone for even in the early church such beliefs existed which tried to promote something/someone else too in addition to our Master, which is why Paul wrote the letter to the Colossians, saying, Col. 2:18, ‘Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind.’

The world is constantly creating space for a deity or deities, as it might suit them, to substitute the Omniscience of the One God.  The whole idea is to empty God of His fullness; but it will never happen.  It can’t for only God is Omniscient, and He alone is Omnipresent and Omnipotent.  Jesus Christ came as the Son of God, also the second Person of the Holy Trinity.  He needs no allies with Him nor is He concerned about the piddling power wielded by the unholy nexus of demons, dark powers and what have you, for He has dominion over them because He is God.  That the idolatrous religions of the world are untrue is seen in the fact that they’re accommodative of any and every person or that which creates some pseudo divine space for itself; but it can only infuriate the one real God for He knows that He alone is God and everything else is pretentious.  That is why we have in the first commandment, ‘Thou shall have no other gods before Me.’

Jesus Christ is the LORD God and there’s no doubt or error.  When His apostle Philip, tried to place Him lower than the Father in saying, Jn. 14:8, ‘Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us’ Jesus immediately corrected him saying, ‘Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip? he that hath seen Me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?’  Oh, I love Jesus who so mildly corrects us and He didn’t even come with the glory that belongs to Him forever, rather shedding it for our sake.  And God is so pleased in Him that He provides light in our hearts to perceive the glory of God in Jesus Christ; so we know and worship Him, Christ the Lord, in all the earth.