GOD'S INTERACTIONS WITH AND FOR MAN

GOD'S INTERACTIONS WITH AND FOR MAN

Starting in Genesis, we see verse after verse describing and teaching Who God is and what God is doing and has done.  Now God, is unchangeable, immutable, and His ways are consistent.  This means that what God did in the Old Testament, He is able to do today.  He changes not.  And all His attributes and works are the same today as they have been of old, and will continue to be throughout eternity. 

We will look at the Scripture reference of God's action and then make application where needed for our study of Who God is and what God has done, is doing and will do.

GENESIS

1:1, "God created. . ."  - God is creator of all things; everything that was, is or shall be, is by His hand and allowance;  Also found in 1:21,
1:2, "Spirit of God moved . . ."  - the moving of the Spirit upon the deep waters is His interaction with His creation and existence;  the question to be answered here is, 'what was HE doing in this movement?'  James Stuart provides the best answer to me, 'brooding upon the deep for the souls of men and God's creation that was getting ready to be done.'  And in all this to be glorified.

1:3, "And God said. . ." - God speaks; His words are power, truth and right.  He cannot lie.  That which He pronounces shall come to pass. 
Also in this chapter, this phrase of God's action is found in :  1:6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 29;

1:4, "And God saw. . ." - God is omniscient and omnipresent.  He sees all things and knows all things.  There is no hidden thing to Him.  God beholds His creation and you and me in all our ways. Also found in 1:8, 1:12,  1:18, 1:21, 1:25
"And God divided. . . " - God can bring together, and God can divide.  Why would He divide? For the purpose of His Own will.  He establishes the reality that not all things can subsist together.  What business does light have with darkness?

1:5, "And God called. . ."  - Who else was there to name these things?  And what God has pronounced and called, so it is .  God named the day and night.  They are spiritaul as well.  for God called us out of darkness into light, praise His Name for that.  Also found in 1:8, 1:10,  calling the firmament heaven.  WE lift our eyes up unto the heavens.  It is still called that.

1:7, "And God made. . . "  - God created, God formed, God made are all the description of God bringing what we know as reality into being.  God 'made' and without Him nothing was made.  All things proceed from God.  "In the beginning God. . . " and all things proceed being made from there.
When you consider everything in your life having been made from your soul, life, flesh and all the 'things' of our life, He made them.  This deserves thanksgiving and accountability.  Where much is made by God and given, so much is to be answered for.  The more made, the more accountability. Also found in 1:16, 'He made. . .' -  He made sun, moon and stars; which is a place of worship and adoration for the power that sits above us in the heaen, that God made that and sustains that; every rising and setting of the sun; the fasciantion of the moon in its monthly increments and the beauty of stars and their magnitude of power expresses to us, God's great power that HE made them; Also found in 1:25,

1:17, "And God set. . ." - What a mighty hand and deed to set them in place.  As big as the sun, moon ,stars, heaven and earth is, only something bigger than those things can handle them and set them in place.  God is big enough to hold them and set them in His most capable hands.  And if He is big to set the elements in place and maintain them, how much bigger is He to set our lives and hold them safely and for His glory?  the nations? the church? time - past, present and future? Oh, how big is God to set!

1:22, "And God blessed. . ." - Only He Who has a blessing can impart a blessing.  I find it very foolish for many lost people to say, when someone sneezes, 'God bless you'.  I know it is a formal tradition, but it is such a lie.  NO one can impart blessings except, from where blessings proceed - God.  God creation, God speaks it, God created it, God made it and only God can bless it.  The issue of paradoxes arises right here.  And that is, that if a blessing is given or granted, then also cursing can be granted.  That if God grants a blessing, God can withdraw the blessing.  God imparts blessings for His glory Name sake.