Our Family Time with God

November 14, 2009

GOD IS GREAT IN HIS PERSON

Scripture Reading: Psalm 95

Once one of my sons and I went to a local park because he had issues regarding God's existence we needed to talk about. It was a dreary, overcast day. Clouds hung low, and the sun was absent. As we talked, he asked me how I could believe in a God I couldn't see. As an airplane passed overhead, I said, "There's no airplane up there."

"Yes, there is," he said. "I hear it."

"But how can you believe there's an airplane up there when you can't see it?"

"Because I hear the motor."

His answer was all I needed to explain the fact that we can believe in a God we can't see because we observe the evidence of His existence everywhere we look. I talked to him about the importance of basing faith on the truth of God's Word and on the wonders of creation. That's all the evidence we need! Hebrews 11:1 says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" ( emphasis added ). By faith, we believe in God's existence and in what He's like. Our talk helped my son understand the person of God.

Verse 3 of today's Scripture says, "For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods" ( emphasis added ). When God spoke to Moses from the burning bush and sent him back to Egypt to deliver His people from bondage, Mosed asked what he should say when the people asked who had sent him. "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you" ( Ex. 3:14 ). In that statement, God declares Himself to be the eternally existing God; or, as the psalmist put it, "From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God" ( Ps. 90:2b, emphasis added ).

APPLICATION: Share evidences that help you believe God is great in His person even though you can't see Him.

--Jack Palmer--