The Transforming Word of God

"Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives", wrote J.I. Packer in his book, Knowing God . In fact, knowing God is crucial to everything else in life! May grace and peace be multiplied to you  in the knowledge of God  and of Jesus our Lord. 2 Peter 1:2 It's our knowledge of God that multiplies, that grows, grace and peace in our lives. I can persevere through all things, through hardships and temptations, because of my intimate knowledge of God. For example, knowledge of God is what kept me totally free of worry and anxiety as I walked through my cancer. It is my knowledge of God and Christ that causes me to stand in awe of His love for me. It is my growing knowledge of God that has wrought changes in my attitudes and behavior over the years—and continues to grow and change me. God's not through with me yet! I am still a very flawed human being in need of His constant transforming work in my life. His divine power has granted...

Before the mountains were brought forth or ever you had formed the earth and world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. Psalm 90:2 I think you would agree that it's not that hard to believe, to sense, to think of eternity to come. But to try to grasp eternity past is more than our finite minds can comprehend. Yet God always was, just as He always is and always will be. That's why it makes sense to me that God named Himself "I Am" when He called Moses (Exodus 3:14). He just IS! Before time, which He created, He was. And is. And will be. The same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8).  As the psalmist says, God existed before the mountains, before the earth itself. God was there before there was anything! Although we know that, although we assent to that fact mentally, we struggle with the nothingness of His pre-existence. We have a beginning, even though we have no memory of that beginning. The very fact of our beginning makes it ...