Attributes of God (Part 1) What’s it all about?
I recently had a song floating around in my head which dates back to the late 60’s. As you can see I’m dating myself a bit. It was written by Burt Bacharach to promote a movie made in 1966 called Alfie. The Song became a major hit after it was sung live by Diane Warwick’s on the 39th Academy Awardsceremony television broadcast in 1967.
The part of the song that keeps coming to mind is the first few lines of the song which goes:
What’s it all about Alfie Is it just for the moment we live?
What’s it all about when you sort it out, Alfie?
Are we meant to take more than we give? Or are we meant to be kind?…
The part that says, ”What’s it all about” seem like a question that many of us keep asking our self. Is it all about living for the moment? Is it all about taking more than we give? Or is it all about being kind?
What’s this life all about???
Later the song goes on to say,
‘As sure as I believe there’s a heaven above Alfie,
I know there’s something much more Something even non-believers can believe in. I believe in love, Alfie Without true love we just exist, Alfie Until you find the love you’ve missed You’re nothing, Alfie’
Is that what this life is all about, experiencing love; experiencing that feeling that emotion? Or is there something more, something even more meaningful. Are we designed even for a greater purpose.
In this new series of lesson I would like to touch on this topic; or What’s it all about.
In this first lesson I would like to touch on the fact it’s not all about us, you and I are not the center of the universe, rather I say, it’s ALL about God. It’s all about Him and His purpose and design. And that’s where I want to begin.
Someone once said, “The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him. It may seem a hopeless endeavor, to gaze at the invisible God. But Romans 1:20 tells us that through creation, we see His “invisible qualities” and “divine nature.” “ (Francis Chan)
And this is where I want to begin. Our God is an awesome and unimaginably powerful being. I hope to help you understand this fact a little better by showing a glimpse of His mighty creative power as seen in the following video to help you see what I am talking about.
(Click to view: The Heaven declares the Glory of God YouTube video)
We live in amongst a group of stars called the Milky Way Galaxy. Our Sun is just one star, part of some 400 billion stars that make up our galaxy. Scientist now believe that there are100 billion or more galaxies out there in space, some smaller than ours, and some bigger made up of close to a trillion stars. Scripture has revealed to us that He has created it all and knows each star by name. And not only that, we read that He continues hold all things together. Col. 1:15-16 says, “The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
We cannot possibly comprehend that kind of ability or the power it take to do that, but our Lord has that ability and power. Today I want you to see how majestic, how awesome, and how powerful our God is. But we can’t even do that because that kind of power is way beyond our comprehension. To be able to create all things seen and unseen, from the largest galaxy with all it star to the smallest particle of matter, smaller than atoms themselves. Even creating those unseen things beyond our own dimension of reality is mind boggling and beyond our imagination. And if God made all of this, how big or vast is He personally? Before He made the universe as we know it, what else was there? Again, that’s way beyond us.
But one thing you may be able to do today is, you may begin to see how small and insignificant we actually are in the grand scheme of things compare to what’s out there in the universe. But even then it’s hard to comprehend that. Isaiah 55:9 says, “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
After seeing images like this, if then we ask, “What’s it all about”, we should realize that you and I are not the center of the universe. It’s not all about you or me or what we want, or what we think we deserve, rather it all about God. We are hardly a speck in all creation.
What’s it all about? It’s all about God and His purpose and design.
And shame on us when we fail to recognize or honor Him for who He is or with arrogance think we can demand or deserve things from such a powerful awesome being.
But even though we are small compared to everything else out there, God’s message to us in the Bible is that even though we are smaller than many other things He has created, we are not insignificant.
When He made us, in many ways we are unique and special to Him. Because when He created us, we are told that He chose to make us in His own image. We obviously mean something to Him because chose to step out of His glorious realm, empty Himself of so much and become a man and live amongst us, and then offered up His mortal life by dying on that cross for our sins which would have prevented us from coming to Him after this earthly life.
His power is beyond measure. His ability to created beauty is mind boggling and moves our soul to praise Him. In Romans 1:20 Paul wrote saying, “20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”
I am going to discuss this topic a little more next week but I want to close this lesson with another video showing His beautiful creation a little closer to home.
From this day forward I pray that if you ask yourself, ‘What’s it all about?’, you will know that it’s all about God and His divine will. I hope that you will begin to see how God has made you, and that you are part of His creation and plan, and what a honor and privilege that is. He is worthy of worship!
And even though you may not understand what your particular purpose is, I hope that you would find comfort and hope in your creator, in His infinite power, and might and wisdom, knowing that He loves you. In Eph. 1 Paul praises God with these words and thoughts, “3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. 4 Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. 5 God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. 6 So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.”
If you wnat to View a beautiful music video click on the following link:
God’s beautiful creation video
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