GOD’S LAW MANIFESTS HIS AUTHORITY OVER ALL CREATION, ANIMATE AND INANIMATE

MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
May 25, 2022

GOD’S LAW MANIFESTS HIS AUTHORITY OVER ALL CREATION, ANIMATE AND INANIMATE

“Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.” Ps. 33: 8, 9, KJV.

The King’s word is law, while the Creator’s verbal command, consistent with His authority  as the Source of light of life “original, unborrowed, and underived” is, in and of itself, instant creative power, in one word, FIAT. “For He spoke. and it was done; He commanded and it stood fast.”

Even as He “changeth not” is “the same yesterday, today and forever,” “the  and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last” (Rev. 22:13).

His infinitely exclusive and eternally non-duplicatable fiat authority first went into full display before the angelic host and the unfallen “worlds” in His universe (Heb.1:1-3, 6-8, 19-12) in the creation of the “heavens and the earth and all that in them is.” (Gen. 1, 2; Exo. 20: 8-11; John 1:1-3; Col. 1: 16,17).

The prophet Samuel, founder of Israel’s first schools of the prophets and the seer of note who oversaw the inglorious, forced transition from the first and last divine theocracy to human monarchy, with Saul, the “landslide people’s choice” as its first king, replaced by David (because of the former’s unfaithfulness, presumptuous deeds and finally, apostasies)—-demonstrated, as a child trainee under Eli the high priest, that childlike, trusting, reverent and obedient attitude towards God and anointed servants. On that fateful night when the invisible God SPOKE, calling Samuel by name twice, Eli instructed the child to answer, “SPEAK Lord, for thy servant heareth.” On the third time God SPOKE, calling “Samuel, Samuel,” the child obediently replied, “Speak, for Thy servant HEARETH.” (1 Sam. 1:1-10).

Will we also hear with willing ears when God in Christ, through the Holy Spirit, speaks to our conscience and commands us to obey and keep His law? That creative power in His voice command, is the same as His redemptive power, calling us by name at this midnight of earth’s history, to “forsake the perishable things of this world that are fast fading away” before our very eyes, and by His empowering grace, “overcome even as He overcame,” i.e., “overcome the temptations of this world, the lust of the flesh and the eyes and the devil” himself, by faithfully and joyfully following Christ’s self-denying, self-sacrificing life example, who says to all, “If you love Me, keep My commandments” (John 14:15).

Will you “hear His  VOICE and harden not your hearts”(Heb.3:16; 4:7; Ps. 95:6-11)?

Bless all. Until next week’s MWM, God willing, NMF.