...because as He is, so are we in this world.

God is truth (1 John 5:20)
Walk in truth (2 John 4)

God is a Spirit (John 4:24)
Walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:16)

God is love (1 John 4:18)
Walk in love (Ephesians 5:2)

God is light (1 John 1:5)
Walk in the light (Ephesians 5:8)

God "called unto" Moses

God "called unto" Moses three times:

1. Exodus 3:4 - in regards to work (deliverance)
• God calls from a burning bush emphasizing His Sovereignty.
2. Exodus 19:3 - in regards to walk (commandments)
• God calls from the mountain emphasizing His Separation.
3. Leviticus 1:1 - in regards to worship (offerings)
• God calls from the tabernacle emphasizing His Sacrifice.

I said to the man that stood at the gate of the year, "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he said to me, "Go forth into the darkness and put your hand in the hand of God; And it shall be to you better than a light and safer than a known way."

Minnie Louise Haskins

When God wants to drill a man
and thrill a man and skill a man
When God wants to mold a man
to play the noblest part;
When he yearns with all his heart
to create so bold a man
that all the world will be amazed,
Watch his methods, watch his ways:

How he relentlessly perfects
whom he royally elects;
How he hammers us and hurts us
and with mighty blows converts us
into trial shapes of clay
which only God can understand,
While our tortured heart is crying
and we lift beseeching hands.

How God bends, but never breaks
when his good he undertakes;
How he uses whom he chooses
and with every purpose fuses us;
By every act induces us
to try his splendor out —
God knows what he's about!

Author unknown

Do you ever feel down hearted or discouraged?
Do you ever think your work is all in vain?
Do the burdens thrust upon you make you cheerless,
And you fear that you shall never the victory gain?

Have faith in God, the sun will shine,
Though dark the cloud may be today,
His heart hath planned your path and mine:
Have faith in God, have faith alway.

May Agnew Stephens

Rock of our salvation (Psalm 95:1)

Shelter for refuge (Ps 31:2-3; Ps 61:2-3)
Supply for refreshment (Ex 17:6; Num 20:8)
Shadow for rest (Isa 32:2)
Stability for resilience (Ps 40:2)

A note to an evolutionist

It is absurd for the evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

G.K. Chesterton

Psalm 145

God is great (Psalm 145:3)
God is gracious (Psalm 145:8), His mercy is great (Psalm 145:8)
God is good (Psalm 145:9), His goodness is great (Psalm 145:7)

His acts are mighty (Psalm 145:4, 6, 12)
His goodness is memorable (Psalm 145:7)
His kingdom is majestic (Psalm 145:12)

The Living God in Hebrews

Departure from the living God (Heb 3:12)
Devotion to the living God (Heb 9:14)
Dread of the living God (Heb 10:31)
Dwelling of the living God (Heb 12:22)

Divine dialogue

And God said,"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth." - Gen 1:26

But about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying,"Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is,"My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" - Matt 27:46

And Jesus, having cried with a loud voice, said,"Father, into Thy hands I commit my spirit. And having said this, He expired. - Luke 23:46

The Bible is filled with accounts of conversation between the Persons of the triune God. The longest one being in John 17. What a privilege to be allowed a glimpse into the intimacy of the Son of God with the Father. In Genesis we find the first recorded conversation. It speaks of exclusiveness in creation and unity in the Godhead. It shows that the Lord Jesus is indeed the Word who was always with God. We find the Lord Jesus being in the centre of the creation account. In the gospels we find the last written conversation. In the extraordinary darkness, the Lord cried out, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me? It speaks of separation in the Godhead because the wrath of a Holy God was upon the Bearer of the sin of the whole world. I'm glad that it didn't end there. The Lord Jesus could go on to say that He committed His spirit into the Father's hands: For Thou wilt not leave My soul to Sheol, neither wilt Thou allow Thy Holy One to see corruption (Ps 16:10). The conversation continues now that the Lord has resurrected, ascended and is seated at the right hand of God. But now the conversation is on our behalf: Whence also He is able to save completely those who approach by Him to God, always living to intercede for them.