9 results for tag: God’s Character

Anchored: What About God?

Over the next nine weeks on the blog, we will be following along with our fall Hope Groups as they go through Hope Mommies’ newly published Bible Study — Anchored.  For those of you who did not register for a group this year, this will be an opportunity to walk through the topics studied in our Hope Groups. For those of you who are currently participating in a Hope Group, our desire is for these posts to reinforce the lessons you are learning with your group.   Wherever you are in your journey through loss and grief, I pray that this series will encourage your heavy hearts, remind you of truth, and point you to ...

I AM: Good

"You are good and do good; teach me Your statutes.” -Psalm 119:68 God is good and does good.  In fact, God is the final standard and ultimate source of all that is good.  This is repeated all throughout the Psalms, and throughout the entire Bible.  All that God is and all that He does is good and worthy of praise.  There is no higher standard of goodness than God’s own character.  The goodness of God is easy to profess joyfully when things are going well, but seems rather difficult to affirm when times are hard.  Often our circumstances seem like anything but evidence of God’s goodness. We are surrounded by the brokenness of the ...

I AM: Unchanging

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." (Hebrews 13:8) Imagine if you worshipped a deity that was powerful, yet changeable, impulsive, and unpredictable. He could rescind a promise at any time, take back a gift that was given for any reason, or change his mind about what his purpose is. Trust would be a very hard part of your personal relationship with the one that you worshipped if this was the case. Thankfully, God and all of His attributes are entirely compatible with His immutability, His unchanging nature. "God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and he will ...

I AM: Jealous

"For you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.” -Exodus 34:14 Most of us cringe when we hear of God’s jealousy.  It’s not very often that jealousy is presented in an honorable light.  But because God proclaims Himself to be a jealous God, it is important that we make every effort to understand this attribute in light of the fullness of His character.  When we think of jealousy as it relates to human emotion or character it is usually played out in an envious desire of others achievements, advantages, or possessions.   It is wanting what others have that we do not ...

I AM: Faithful

“For the word of the Lord is upright, and all His work is done in faithfulness.” -Psalm 33:4 Did you catch that?  ALL of His work — everything God does — is done in faithfulness.  Every plan He has made, every purpose for your life, every move He makes in this universe fulfills what He has said He will do for His people, because God is faithful.  Even when we are unfaithful to God, His own faithfulness is unchanged.  It’s everywhere, boundless and unending. “If we are faithless, He remains faithful— for He cannot deny Himself.” -2 Timothy 2:13 He is faithful to His Word He is faithful ...

I AM: Love

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved” -Ephesians 2:4-5 Evidence of God’s great love for you is woven throughout every single page of His Word.  But often, when we we face trials and hardship and sorrow, we begin to doubt His love.  It’s as though we measure the sincerity and strength of His love by the circumstances we face and conclude that if we are experiencing suffering, it must be because He does not love us. But could I challenge you for just a moment to re-read the verse above. . ...

I AM: Sovereign

“I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things.” -Isaiah 45:5-7 God is Sovereign Sovereign is one of those words that we “know” but don’t always fully understand.  When we use it to describe or define God, we may initially think we understand it, but the more we try to work out all of its implications, the more difficult it ...

I AM: Holy

“Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy…” -Revelation 15:4 When we say that God is holy we are referring to His inexhaustible greatness and His unblemished character. God cannot be charged with wrong, because He cannot be wrong.  His very nature does not allow it.   He is completely set apart from His creation.  There is no one and nothing like Him. “To whom then will you compare Me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.” -Isaiah 40:25 As we study the character of God we cannot fail to let His holiness fully capture our hearts. Too often we surround ourselves ...

I AM: Yahweh (And a giveaway)

I AM: Yahweh Dear one, I do not know what road your heart has taken through this journey of loss.  Perhaps, you feel as though you are drowning in bitterness and anger, or maybe you have shut yourself off to the world because feeling nothing seems better than feeling the weight of this heart-breaking sorrow. Maybe you find that you have been isolating yourself, because you are tired of the reminders of new life all around you when you had to say goodbye to your own precious little one.  Maybe it seems like no one understands the pain you’ve been through so you wear a mask like everything is fine, when inside you feel like you are ...