The Living God

Read: Deuteronomy 5:24-27, Isaiah 57:15, Jeremiah 10:10, 1 Timothy 3:15-16, Hebrews 3:12-13, 13:8

First, please read the passages above on the Living God. One important image of God that sets Him apart from other religions is the fact that He is alive. He does not sit idly by and watch nor is he a carved statue to worship. The LORD is an active, loving, reviving God. In Deut. 5 the people of Israel talk to Moses about the power of the voice of the Lord. They desire to hear His word but fear that they will be consumed by the words of fire (power and glory) that He speaks over them. They realize God’s power and energy through the audible words he declares over Israel, and have Moses be the spokesmen for them just as Jesus was our witness before God. He will not give us anything besides truth and wisdom, and knows our thoughts before we do. He is a lofty, omniscient God that lives among all those who believe in Him.

The prophet Jeremiah knows the LORD to be the living, eternal king now and forever. It is important to remember that regardless of what our political leaders do, or what our teachers tell us, we must hold the Word above all other commands. Jesus gave up everything, including His life to follow the will and the Word of God. If we truly pursue a relationship with the King we must be willing to do the same, knowing that His plan and his sovereignty rules forever whereas these worldly nations are fleeting.

In Isaiah 57:15 it is declared that the Lord has and always will live forever in a high and holy place. He (Jesus) will come to fill and encourage the lowly in spirit and to revive them. The word revive means to give life, which is cool because he, the Living God, makes us alive in Christ (Eph 2:4-5). Heb. 3 also talks about reviving our spirits through encouragement and fellowship with other believers. The author of Hebrews knew the goodness of the Living God and desires that we know the importance of pursuing Him and not turning back to our own idols.

In 1 Timothy, Paul explains how Jesus came as the embodiment of the image of the Living God. Jesus was 100% God and 100% man, filled with life and energy coming from the Father. “He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory,” Paul tells Timothy that the Church, or Household of God is the church of the one, true, living God from which godliness (sanctification) springs forth greatly.

The one true God is a living, active God who refuses to be ignored. He is a force that cannot be reckoned with and he stands in front of us, leading us into eternal glory with Him. In the beginning people knew the power and reality of the Lord through his commanding voice and his irreplaceable signs and miracles such as the burning bush with moses and commanding Noah to build an ark before it had ever rained on the earth. Next, Jesus physically embodied the image of the Living God, when he, the Son of God came to dwell among us. Now, the Holy Spirit comes down and lives inside of each person who has faith in Jesus Christ.