“As the Lord liveth…”As God liveth…”
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Those who have read the Word in its entirety are familiar with the twin texts mentioned above; they are used throughout the Bible. The common thread that characterized every saint in scripture, regardless of his or her station in life, geographical habitation, age in which they lived, or intellectual aptitude was that in each life God was a living reality.
A. W. Tozer wrote, “What comes to our minds when we think of God is the most important thing about us.” Our conception of God shapes our lives. A god molded, mentally or manually, from our own imagination will invariably take on the likeness of its designer (Psa. 115:8). Aaron created a god likened to an animal, for the Jews acted as such.
You will be hard pressed to find anyone in the scripture arguing God’s existence; the lives of His people were proof enough of His being! A life without God was inconceivable to them. “Should anyone,” says Martin Luther, “knock at my heart’s door and ask, ‘Who lives here?’ I should reply, ‘Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.’”
Everything in Bible saints’ lives revolved around God as the center. Their entire personalities and activities were under His control. “They that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name” (Mal. 3:16).
Personally, in my own life, I find a continued appropriation of God and all He is, is becoming more and more the norm of my life. And as one olden T.V. personality used to say, “HOW SWEET IT IS!”
An Old Disciple
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