For the Lord is a Great God

Sometimes I just feel the need to worship the Lord and nothing else can satisfy but to worship Him.

"For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In His hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is His also. The sea is His, and He made it: and His hands formed the dry land. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For He is our God; and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand." (Psalm 95:3-7)

He IS a great God. There is none like Him; never has been any like Him and never will be any like Him. For only the true living God can be the true living God. And He is OUR God.

And I say "OUR" deliberately, for He is God over us all. We might not all worship and adore Him (and some will face the wrath of our mighty God because they have not loved Him); but He is God over us all nevertheless for one day every knee will bow before Him. But to those who set their love upon Him, as did David, the shepherd boy that God anointed as King of Israel, here is the promise of God for us:

"He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in Him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt thou trust: His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noon day. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall be no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling." (Psalm 91:1-10)

"No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord." (Isaiah 54:17)

"Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him" says our Lord to us "because he hath known My Name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble." (Psalm 91:14-16)

This mighty God – keeper of the deep, maintainer of mountains, owner of the seas, creator of the very ground that we stand upon – says He will be with me in trouble and will deliver me no matter what comes my way and that because of Him I will have nothing to fear….all because I have set my love upon Him, because I call upon Him, because I know His Name.

What is His Name?

To those of us who love Him and walk in obedience to His Word, it's "Abba, Father."

"For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." (Romans 8:15)

"And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." (Galatians 4:6)

"Abba" is the Greek equivalent of "Dad" or "Daddy". That's how intimate a relationship He desires with us. Some, who don't know God as their Father, would call that shocking or irreverent; and yet the Word of God tells us that this is a relationship He not only desires but has set in place for those of us who believe and trust in His Son, Jesus:

"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God; therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him [Jesus] not. (I John 3:1)

"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. (Romans 8:14)

"That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world" (Philippians 2:15)

His Name is Abba, Father. And for His own purposes and for only a season, He has placed one name higher than His own: and that name is Jesus Christ.

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved." (John 3:16-17)

"But as many as received Him [Jesus Christ], to them gave He [God] power to become the sons of God [even] to them that believe on His name." (John 1:12)

If only everyone knew Jesus Christ, they would then know our Abba, Father, the way we do who love Him so; for He, our Lord, is a very Great God and Father! And with our Father by our side, we can face anything that comes our way!

How great is our God!