God Attribute, 12

 ~ God Cannot Misunderstand ~

 

This Series  ~  This series of posts looks at some of the many attributes of God.  Generally, we move in alphabetical order.

 

Introduction  ~  “Ah, Lord God!  Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm.  There is nothing too hard for You” (Jeremiah 32:17-18).

 

Part of the reason that God cannot misunderstand is that He is the Creator of all things.  Since He is all-powerful, all-knowing, and present everywhere simultaneously He cannot misunderstand. 

 

God not only understands our situations and our reactions to them but He also knows our thoughts and motivations.  Even when we want to do right but fail anyway, He understands.

 

“But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him.  For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart’” (1 Samuel 16:7).

 

Scripture  ~  “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!  How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!  ‘For who has known the mind of the Lord?  Or who has become His counselor?  Or who has first given to Him and it shall be repaid to him?’  For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever.  Amen” (Romans 11:33-36).

 

Comment  ~  Do you have all your sins forgiven – past, current, and future?  If not, you could settle that now. 

 

“Who Himself [Jesus Christ] bore our sins [including yours] in His own body on the tree [the Cross of Calvary], that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness — by whose stripes you were healed.  For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls” (1 Peter 2:24-25).

 

Questions  ~  Have you made that decision to accept the gift of forgiveness of all your sins and eternal life? 

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

 

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