Four words I have mediated on over the last few days. Those words are truth, righteousness, marvelous, and inscrutable. I asked God to show me what He wants me to know from these four words.
First and foremost, is that God is the absolute source of all truth. John 14:6 ‘Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Truth is defined as firm, stable, faithful, upright, and with nothing to hide. God is all of these. He never changes (Romans 11:29,) and His ways are sure. (Psalm 18:30)
Righteousness is tied to God’s truth. Being righteous is being right before God based on His truth. It is being pure and holy in God’s sight. Matthew 6:33 tells us, “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”
Man cannot achieve this in any manner or form on their own. The only way was for God, in His inscrutable (impossible to understand) plan (Romans 11:33) for reuniting man to Himself, was to offer the perfect sacrifice that would appease His wrath against sin in us.
Jesus is the only way. He came to earth to die so we might’ve in His righteousness as children of God. (2Corinthians 5:21, Romans 4:22-25)
Now we are adopted children of God. (Romans 8:15) We are living under no condemnation. (Romans 8:1) For God sees us as perfect through the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
How marvelous (wonderful, astounding, extraordinary) are all the plans of God. They are deep and rich. (Romans 11:33) For from the beginning of time, God planned a way for us to dwell with Him forever. (Ephesians 1:4-5)
1 Corinthians 2:9 “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him—“
No one knows the marvelous, inscrutable truth that our righteous God has planned for His children who love Him.
Question 1. What four words would you use in describing Jesus and why?
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