I recently saw a video of someone who thought God was called Howard. When questioned about it she explained that we are told to pray, “Our Father, Howard be your name…”. I doubt that this was genuine as ‘Hallowed’ and ‘Howard’ don’t really sound the same but it did make me chuckle.
We continue in our series on the A – Z Names and Nature of God.
GOD IS…
DWELLING PLACE
Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.
Psalm 90:1 – NIV
Psalm 90 is a song written by Moses (the only one in the book of Psalms) most likely during the wilderness years on the way to Canaan. During that time Israel lived in constant need of refuge, shelter, and protection. They
had no fixed home but in God they had a safe dwelling place. The Hebrew word for Dwelling Place can also be translated as refuge, as it is in another of Moses’ songs in Deuteronomy 33:27. For us today, we can find our security, our home, our safety, our refuge in God, not bricks and mortar, for buildings fade and crumble, but God never will. With God as our dwelling place there is room for all and forever – from generation to
generation.
ETERNAL & END
“He said to me: ‘It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.”
Revelation 21:6 – NIV
Last week we looked at God as the beginning. We also know that He is the end. However, we also know that God is Eternal, the very next verse from the one above for ‘dwelling place’ – Psalm 90:2 says, “Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.” This is a paradox of God that he is both eternal and the end. Creation as we know it will one day end, but God never will. God being eternal gives meaning to my faith here and now, to know there is more beyond life on earth, a relationship with Him that lasts forever.
FAITHFUL
“Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.”
Deuteronomy 7:9
In all we have already discovered about God in this list and all that is to come, we can trust in it and be assured of what it means because we read here in Deuteronomy that God if faithful. That means completely and utterly reliable, completely and totally true to his promises and who he is. He keeps his covenant of love. A covenant is a binding agreement. God will keep his word and not backout or back down on sticking to the covenant He has made. When other things are falling apart – he is faithful, when other people have let us down – he is faithful, when we feel insecure and worried – he is faithful. He is faithful in every generation and because He is – it means we can be FULL of FAITH.
I hope as you reflect on these things you will find them a source of encouragement, that they deepen your love and understanding of our God.
