Tyrone Arthur

 

 (Habakkuk 3:6) "His ways are everlasting."

 

The unknown is something we are well aware and at first I wanted to allocate blame to "sin" for this condition, but prior to sin there was an unknown, the “knowledge of good and evil”. God’s creation in the form of man and woman were not permitted to venture down that road. It could well had something to do with God’s previous creation, the fall of the angelic beings. But this is simply an educated guess, God knows! Mankind’s ways are full of variance, but God’s ways are everlasting. Ever since we rebelled against God way back when, six thousand years ago, when Eve thought she knew better, sure she was deceived, but deception will never excuse our actions. She looked to rush God’s plan. Although she carries the weight of the blame, we are all guilty as charged and sinners by nature. The deeper I gaze into God’s spiritual dimension, simply put the more the bible is studied, I find myself peeling back the layers of amazement, which I will only ever refer to as the “Brilliance of God”; Every plan thwart by the enemy has and will be turned on its head as if God had himself instituted the plan. Deception will never catch God unawares, NEVER! God is the same “yesterday, today and tomorrow”, His character will never change, not like us, chaff in the wind.

 

When we look at the finished work of the cross, are you not astonished at the beauty that is now ours? The absorption of something so vile, cruel and wicked. The complete punishment the Lord Jesus received, to have his face marred from the blows it received, his body beaten to a pulp and then crucified. God in the flesh, the One who knew no sin was now being punished for sin, please let that resonate! Reject this offer and there’s no hope for you, zero! "whoever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved."

Isaiah paint this picture for us; “He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:3-6) – On the surface of this historical event, we see so many of his follows, dejected as they witnessed the Lord’s crucifixion, they felt defeated. Satan and his follows looking to devour and destroy God in the flesh and for a time there may have well been some celebration, BUT on the 3^rd Day HE rose again, hallelujah! Praise God!

 

“Our actions is frequently the result of passion, or fear and is followed by regret and altercation; but nothing can take the Almighty by surprise, or happen otherwise than he has foreseen His ways are the outgrowth of an immutable character, and in them the fixed and settled attributes of God are clearly to be seen. Unless the Eternal One himself can undergo change, his ways, which are himself in action, must remain for ever the same. Is he eternally just, gracious, faithful, wise, tender?-then his ways must ever be distinguished for the same excellences. Beings act according to their nature: when those natures change, their conduct varies also; but since God cannot know the shadow of a turning, his ways will abide everlastingly the same. Moreover there is no reason from without which could reverse the divine ways, since they are the embodiment of irresistible might. The earth is said, by the prophet, to be cleft with rivers, mountains tremble, the deep lifts up its hands, and sun and moon stand still, when Jehovah marches forth for the salvation of his people. Who can stay his hand, or say unto him, what doest thou? But it is not might alone which gives stability; God's ways are the manifestation of the eternal principles of right, and therefore can never pass away. Wrong breeds decay and involves ruin, but the true and the good have about them a vitality which ages cannot diminish.”  (Charles Spurgeon)

 

If God is for us who can be against us? However for those who do not align their wills with His, judgment is looming...  

 

Signing off

 

Tyrone