Wednesday, April 24, 2013

U is for Unique

1st Writes is participating in the 2013 April A to Z Blogging Challenge.

This year our theme is "Attributes of God from A to Z".

Join us each day as we explore

the characteristics of our awesome God!

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No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God is near to the Father’s heart. He has revealed God to us. John 1:18 NLT

Many unbelievers ask how they can know a God that they have never seen? In this verse John revels that if you want to see the mind and nature of God, if you want to see His attitudes, look at Jesus. In this one verse John gives us the key to knowing God.

If seeing Jesus is like looking at a mirror image of God then the disciples knew our unique God. By studying their detailed journals of Christ, the New Testament becomes a road map to an intimate relationship with God.

As with the disciples before us the more we know the closer we want to get, and the closer we get the more we want to know this unique God we serve.

Dean Drawbaugh

Friday, April 12, 2013

K is for King

1st Writes is participating in the 2013 April A to Z Blogging Challenge.

This year our theme is "Attributes of God from A to Z".

Join us each day as we explore

the characteristics of our awesome God!

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God is the King of kings and the Lord of lords.

Revelation 19:16

His title, King of kings and Lord of lords is proper. He is sovereign over the kings and lords of the earth, and all nobles and princes are under his control - a rank that properly belongs to the Son of God.

History is riddled with rulers that had incredible power, but wanted more. To name a few, Alexander the Great, Genghis Kahn, Napoleon, Hitler, Caesar, and most notably Satan. They wanted to control everything and everyone.

As soon as these rulers changed their focus from sitting on their throne, to sitting on God’s throne and becoming King of kings they doomed themselves to failure.

We all have kingdoms; our homes, our families, our jobs. Are we allowing God to rule in these areas, as a part of His Kingdom, creating a perfect order?