Daily devotion – Which God?
Many people today say they believe in God and so too every cult will tell us that they too believe in God. The trouble is, the god they are talking about is not the same God you and I are talking about Jesus Christ Lord of Heaven and earth.
You and I need to be mindful when witnessing that we actually define who we mean when we are speaking of the God of the Bible.
The final vision of Zechariah tells us about the glorious new age that God is going to establish, the Kingdom Age upon the earth. Over and over in the last three chapters you are going to be reading the phrase, “In that day,” and that is the preface to the declaration of many of the fascinating aspects of the Kingdom Age, and that great judgment that will immediately precede the Kingdom Age.
So this is the burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundation of the earth, and formed the spirit of man within him (Zec 12:1).
Francis Schaeffer said that it is important that we not just talk about God today, or to just use the term God without defining the term, because the term God represents so many things to so many people. They really don’t know what God you are talking about. So he said when we refer to God, we need to give sort of a defining qualifications. And thus, we should say, “The eternal God, the Creator of the heaven and the earth.” Then they know what God you’re talking about.
Now it is interesting that the Lord doesn’t just say, “The Lord,” but He gives sort of a defining of Himself. “The Lord which stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundation of the earth, and formed the spirit of man within him.”
Now I know who you’re talking about. You see. He is the Lord overall. He is the divine Creator. He stretched forth the heavens. He created the earth. He created the capacity in man to know God and to fellowship with Him.
In the book of Acts when the Church was experiencing a difficult and violent time of persecution they prayed and made it very clear just which God they were praying to…
Act 4:24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is…
This verification is found in the very first verse of the Bible – so that right from the beginning we are aware of who we are talking about when we witness of the God of the Bible…. Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.