Know And Trust Your God

by F. McCormick | Category: General | Sept 1952

It is important that all believers should increase in the knowledge. of God. Many heartaches, doubts and fears would vanish if we knew more concerning the Person and character of the One who has saved us from eternal destruction. The Being of God is not an abstract theory, not a mysterious something distant and remote, merely acknowledged because of some obvious manifestation of superhuman, power in the universe, which compels some such solution as a First Cause, which, for convenience, men may call God. God is a personal Being, and true it is that the evidence of the universe bears abundant testimony to the fact that its origin is from One who is infinite in power, knowledge, understanding and wisdom.

"For the invisible things of Him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made; even His everlasting power and divinity" (Romans 1.20).

Advanced science acknowledges that in many things it is still but on the very threshold of discovery. The vast uncharted oceans of untapped knowledge. lie before the greatest of human intellects; unexplored, baffling, mysterious, and unrevealed to the probings of the most acute minds. Yet,

"Lo, these are but the outskirts of His ways and how small a whisper do we hear of Him!" (Job 26.14).

If the outskirts of His ways as seen in creation are so inscrutable to the human mind, then

"Canst thou by searching find out God?

Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?" (Job 11.7).

We do not, and cannot, find out God by human investigation, or process of reasoning.

"He that cometh to God must believe that He is" (Hebrews 11. 6), that He exists, that He always has existed, and always will exist, in all the underived majesty and glory of His own Being, uncreated, self existent, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent. God exists in absolute perfection and happiness in the unity of His own Being, independent altogether of beings or things external to Himself.

" Even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God" (Psalm 90.2). "The high and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity" (Isaiah 57.15).

God dwells in a state of existence as to His Being, where past, present and future are unaccounted 6f; to Him, all is one eternal present. The vast cycles of the ages may run their course, past and future, with all they contain, but to Him who dwells in eternity, they are ever present. His word to Moses is one of encouragement and assurance, for He is cognizant of all the circumstances of the case. "And God said unto Moses, I AM TRAT I AM" (Exodus 3.14).

God is unaffected by circumstances, He is never taken by surprise, He sees all things, He knows all things. His purpose remains, and will ultimately be fulfilled, yet, withal, He is "the God of patience". He has declared, "I the LORD change not" (Malachi 3.6).

Herein we find great encouragement, for He cannot fail or change. Oh that we could trust Him more! to know Him, is to trust Him. Do we really know Him? Is He our Friend? "Abraham believed God... and he was called the friend of God" (James 2.28). "Abraham My friend" (Isaiah 41. &). "By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed ... and went out not knowing whither he went" (Hebrews 11.8), but Abraham knew his God he could trust Him even when lie could not trace the path he was called to tread He knew the God of Glory who had appeared unto him would direct his path it was not his to reason or question the word of God but obey The lesson is-know your God and trust Him The God of our salvation is possessed of infinite power and grace in Him is found absolute perfection in all His ways and attributes. There never can be any deficiencies of any kind in Him, yet alas, how often mortal men challenge His unerring word! The Devil's propaganda is still the same, as he whispers in men's hearts, "Yea, bath God. said ?" The philosopher and the evolutionist by their theories would oust God out of His 6wn creation altogether, and ascribe the wonders: of nature and life to some blindly acting forces they are unable to explain. What folly, and how foolish for men to listen, and imbibe such fallacies when the God of truth has spoken! Be not deceived, there can be no positive knowledge apart from Divine revelation. God's words to Job are,

"Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?" (Job 38.2)

God has spoken, the Scriptures are God-breathed, therein are found words which "men are intellectually incapable of having imagined, and morally incapable of having invented", words we can accept without corroboration, independent entirely of all scientific data. Whatever human opinion may be, these words, as originally transmitted to men, stand in their sublime majesty, trustworthy; the word of God who cannot lie. Upon the impregnable

rock of Holy Scripture we take our stand, we have no cause to doubt or fear. The changing theories of science leave us in doubt, and we wonder, What next? Generations come and go, and man, with his limited, imperfect knowledge, like grass grows up and withers away, but the unchanging God and His abiding word remain.

"The word of our God shall stand for ever" (Isaiah 40.8).

The Bible starts with God. "In the beginning God." Men naturally do not start with God, they would like to shut God out. When God became incarnate they had no room for Him, and ultimately gave Him a cross and a grave; that is the attitude of the natural man toward God. We who have been born again "by the word of truth" have started with God, and God has started with us, a new creation, "created in Christ Jesus for good works" (Ephesians 2.10). We are created anew for His pleasure and glory, and He looks for fruit. Shall we, who have known the regenerating power of His word through the Holy Spirit, not live in the enjoyment of His word day by day? It is our life, for

"It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" (Matthew 4.4).

We who know God can trust His word; we have no reason to doubt it, for there are no impossibilities with God, He who "spake and it was done: ... commanded and it stood fast." The universe was brought into existence and filled with light and life through the power of His word, and I, a wretched, darkened soul, doomed and destined to destruction, was brought from darkness into His marvellous light through the power of the word of the cross. I have entrusted my eternal destiny to the veracity of His word; I am positive that word is true. I have experienced the truth of its statements in my own soul. Consequently, with the fullest confidence I can commit my soul (or life) in well-doing unto a faithful Creator day by day, sustained, and guided by His faithful, unerring word. It is important, therefore, that we accept the Scriptures as the inspired (God-breathed) word.

F. McCormick | Sept 1952
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