Tuesday, February 16, 2016

GOD’S ATTRIBUTES AND NAMES – (E’s)

by Hallie Gipson

Has it already been more than a year since I began “God’s Attributes and Names”? To say that life has intervened and events have conspired would be an understatement! But it is very fitting to pick up our ‘fresh approach’ using the letter “E”. So as I focus on a few E-attributes and names of God, I hope you will meditate on the Who of God as it relates to Who He is to you.

EXALTED –- praised highly; glorified

Psalm 92:8  “But you, O LORD, are exalted forever.”

Psalm 148:13  “Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted; his splendor is above the earth and the heavens.”

Isaiah 6:1  “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.”

Acts 5:29-31  “Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than men! The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead –- whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.”

Philippians 2:9  “Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name.”

EXCELLENT -- superior

Hebrews 1:3-4  “He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.”

EQUAL –- the same in rank or quality

John 5:18  “For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him (Jesus); not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.”

Philippians 2:5,6  “ . . . Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped . . .”

ETERNAL –- ageless; enduring; immortal

Genesis 21:33  “Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.”

Deuteronomy 33:27  “The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.”

Isaiah 26:4  “Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.”

I Timothy 1:17  “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.”

1 John 5:20  “We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true And we are in him who is true – even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.”

EVERLASTING –- never wears out

Nehemiah 9:5  “And the Levites . . . said: “Stand up and praise the LORD your God, who is from everlasting to everlasting.”

Isaiah 9:6  “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

Isaiah 40:28  “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.”

Jeremiah 31:3  “The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.”


Holy Father, I cannot possibly absorb all that You are and have been and will be for all of time and eternity! But I stand firm in the knowledge that You are Who You say You are --- Exalted, Excellent, without Equal, Eternal and Everlasting. Praise You!!

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