The Devotional - 012 - Requital! What is that?

A Thought for the Day – 012 – Requital! What is that?

Psalm 20:22 – Do not say, “I will recompense evil”; Wait for the LORD, and He will save you. When evil is present in our lives; only the LORD can remove it! Human flesh has NO power over spiritual wickedness. Ephesians 6:12-13.

 

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Yesterday while reviewing Psalm 139 I was thinking of the capacity of all that God is and wouldn’t you know it; Dr. David Jeremiah in his morning devotional of today is reviewing this very same thing. Here are the first two paragraphs of his devotional.

“What would you tell someone who asked for a definition of God? One person aptly replied: "God is the One who exists beyond all definition."

Another person, the well-known theologian Charles Hodge, suggested the best definition of God that was ever penned is in the Westminster Shorter Catechism: "God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth."

Yesterday, while I was thinking on the subject, the only thoughts that I could muster up were those found in John 4:23-24. “But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is a Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.”

I do not like the first definition given by the unidentified person in Jeremiah’s devotional. God is a Spirit with lots of definition. Charles Hodge does better agreeing with the Westminster Catechism. Most of us see the Character of God in scripture and agree that He is Spirit, He is Infinite, Eternal and Immutable; also we agree with His Character as having the attributes of All Wisdom, All Power, Justice, Goodness, Truth… thus He is Holy. He is God!

Those who are not saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ do not see God through the eyes of faith, therefore their definitions of God are absent of His character and attributes. This is not a minor problem in witnessing to the lost, it is major since all of the unsaved live under the power of “spiritual deception” so the question might be. What is spiritual deception? Good question! Spiritual deception is the absence of “absolutes”. Faith is an absolute condition of the saved soul.

Notice: Romans 1:16-17 – For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power (His character and attributes) to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith (a Jews faith or a Gentiles faith); “as it is written, the just shall live by faith”. And Habakkuk puts it in perspective in Habakkuk 2:4 “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright (absolute) in him; But the just shall live by faith.

God is a Spirit; He does not have to go anywhere since He is everywhere. For our finite mind this is hard to understand and thus impossible to explain; however. Hebrews 11:1 – Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. So when we witness to someone and they believe God, they go from a mind that is without “absolutes” to the power of God that brings salvation by faith.

Substance does not need to be seen with the human eye to be “evidence” any good detective or faithful disciple will tell you that! Have a good and Godly day, but know this; God is in your day even if you do not absolutely believe it.