How Great is our God!

God's Greatness: Psalm 8 (KJV)

1. O Lord our God, how excellent is Thy Name in all the earth! who hast set Thy glory above the heavens.

2. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of Thine enemies, that Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

3. When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained;

4. What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?

5. For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

6. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:

7. All sheep and Oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

8. The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

9. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is Thy Name in all the earth!

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." 3 Jn 16 (KJV). The love of God the Father is the origin of our regeneration by the Spirit and our reconciliation by the lifing up of the only Son Jesus Christ. He not only sent Him into the world to negotiate peace between heaven and earth, but He gave Him up to suffer and die for us as the great propitiation or expiatory sacrifice. Jesus Christ came and died for us so that we might not die by the sentence of the law. It is the unspeakable joy of all true believers for which we are debted to Jesus Christ, that we are saved from the miseries of hell and delivered from going to the pit. This salvation is avaiable to all who will accept Jesus Christ, they shall not die of their wounds in wilderness, but they shall reach Canaan and shall enjoy the promised rest.

"In quietness and confidence shall be your strength" - Isaiah 30:15. Are you limiting God by the way you think? Imagine a circumstance that you consider bad. Use whatever descriptive words you want to use - difficult, hard, agonizing, frustrating, strenuous, debilitating, horrific, sorrowful, confusing, perturbing, penetrating or painful. Is there a problem too awful or too hard for God to handle? If your answer to this question is anything other than "no"" your understanding of God is too small. Our God is a great and limitless God. He dwells in eternity and operates in infinity. He has all things within His understanding and all things under His control.

Rom 5:6; "For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."(KJV) In a sad condition, helpless and totally lost...with no visible way open for our recovery, vile and obnoxious, unworthy of any favour from a Holy God, The Great God in His great plan gave His Son as a ransom for the whole world.

Whosoever believeth: Here is the great Gospel duty that is to believe in Lord Jesus Christ which is a great gift from a Great God! The intention of the Great Giver is so that man may not perish. One must yield an unfeigned assent and consent to the record God has given in His Word concerning His Son. One must give ourselves to be ruled, taught, saved by Him, which is God has taken away their sins and a pardon is purchased. This is good news to a convinced conscience, healing to the broken bones and bleeding wounds, that Christ indeed came not to condemn, but to save.

Look at the video: You Tube 'The Seven Wonders of the World' astermd, below and then answer this heart question.

What is that one thing which is stopping us from accepting this great gift from a Great God?

Reference:
The Matthew Henry Study Bible, King James Version, "The Best Matthew Henry's Notes in a Handy One Volume"; Reference Bible (Iowa Falls: World Bible Publishers Inc; 1994, 1997)