WHAT IF?
What if God wasn’t God?
We would still serve something or someone.
What if God was not the creator?
We would never have emerged from the goo.
What if God never made any promises or covenants?
We’d have no assurance of coming good.
What if God had no power to save?
We’d have no salvation.
What if God had the power but no desire to save?
We’d be left in despair.
What if there were no miracles?
We’d have no hope.
What if God wasn’t with us, present in our midst?
We’d be profoundly alone.
What if He were not a refuge, a high tower, fortification, strength, or a hiding place?
We’d be exposed, vulnerable to everyone and everything.
What if God didn’t respond to worship?
We’d have no music, no poetry, no art.
What if God did not offer forgiveness, mercy, or redemption?
We’d be eternally damned and dead.
What if He delighted in our failures?
We’d be a source of never ending delight.
What if He remembered our sin?
We’d be wretched in His sight.
What if our God were made in our image?
He’d be selfish, self-serving, unforgiving, lawless, perverted, wicked and depraved.
WHAT IF?
BUT GOD . . .
God is Holy, Almighty, the Great I AM.
(Exodus 3:14, Isaiah 43:13; John 8:24, 28, 58; Revelation 1:8)
God is the creator of the ends of the earth and everything in it.
(Colossians 1:16-17)
God has made covenants with His people.
(2 Corinthians 3:6; Hebrews 7:22, 8:6, 9:15, 12:24)
God is our salvation. It is His desire that all are saved.
(Luke 9:56; John 3:16, 17; Romans 5:8; 1 John 4:9-10, 14)
He is the God of miracles.
(Exodus 3:3, 4:3, 14:21, 15:25; 1 Kings 17:12-23; Mark 6:35-44; Luke 11:14; John 2:1-11 and more)
He is ever-present in our midst.
(Psalm 139:7-12; Jeremiah 23:23-24; Matthew 18:20)
He is my refuge, my high tower, my fortification, my strength, my hiding place.
(Psalm 46:1, 7, 11; Psalm 91:2, Psalm 94:22; Jeremiah 16:19)
God offers forgiveness, mercy and redemption.
(Nehemiah 9:17; Psalm 130:4, 7; Jeremiah 33:8; Daniel 9:9; Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14)
God remembers not our sin.
(Jeremiah 3:34)
We are made in the image of our God.
(Genesis 1:2 ,7; 1 Corinthians 11:7)
Sometimes when the heart grows cold or the sin nature seems to be gaining a foothold, we may forget what we know or should know about our God. He is not like the cold, lifeless idols of the pagans. He does not leave His people, his followers to go on without him.
The Bible teaches that everyone will serve something or someone. It teaches that we will become like the god we serve, based on the how we understand our god and interact with him/it. If we view him as cold and standoffish, harshly judging us or disinterested in us, we will become like him. If we know our God (the Almighty One, the Great I Am, the true and living God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), if we see His face and seek after Him with all of our heart, mind and strength, we will be like Him. That is the miracle of a serving a loving and merciful God.
Thank you, God, for Your abundant mercy.
Copyright MaryBeth Mullin
Rooted and Grounded 