THE NAMES OF GOD-ELOHIM

THE NAMES OF GOD-ELOHIM

   We are embarking on a study of the Names of God.  Our reference books are:  The Names of God by Ken Hemphill and The Power of God's Names by Tony Evans.  I encourage you to purchase these books and proofread this blog for errors.  I have been known to publish an error or two, which I correct as soon as it is pointed out to me.  I am not proud or soft skinned.  The purpose of this blog is to draw you a little closer to God through studying Who He is.  This blog is not about me.

   With the introductions out of the way, let me tell you that I am in awe of my God.  Let me return to my First Love.

ELOHIM

   We first find God in the Book of Genesis, chapter 1,verse 1.  "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."  God was before all else was.  He was before the heaven and the earth.  He was before time.  He was before all of creation.  He created all matter, time, everything.  This is foundational to our Christian faith.  There is no logical explanation for all creation except by design.... and it was God Who designed it all; even wisdom is of God and He gives it freely.

 God tells Job so eloquently in chapter 38 of Job:

4) Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?  declare, if you have understanding.

5) Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know?  or who has stretched the line upon it?

6) Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?  or who laid the corner stone thereof;

7) when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8) Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, and as if it had issued out of the womb?

9) When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

10) And brake up for it My decreed place, and set bars and doors,

11) And said, Hitherto shall you come, but no further:  and here shall your proud waves be stayed?

12) Have you commanded the morning since the beginning of your life; and caused the dayspring to know his place;.........

16) Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth?

17) Have the gates of death been opened unto you?  or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?

18) Do you know the breadth of the earth?  declare if you know it all........

21)  Do you know all this because you were already born?  or because the number of your days is great?.........

36) Who has put wisdom in the inward parts?  or Who has given understanding to the heart?.....

   I love reading the Book of Job.  God continues talking to Job in the next few chapters, also.   It is more than worth reading.  Anyway, God is telling Job, again, that He alone, the Triune God, is He Who created all things and was before anything was created.  It was all created by His design and was all created from nothing.  God spoke it all into existence (with the exception of man)! 

  (SPOILER ALERT:) Job finally sees God for Who He is and repents in chapter 42.  His understanding of God as Creator restores his confidence that God knows about his present circumstances and can provide for his daily needs.  The understanding that God is Elohim, the Creator and Sustainer of all, also gives us confidence to face life's difficulties.

   Elohim literally means "Strong One".  He alone is sovereign.  His power is great.  There is nothing too difficult for God.  (Genesis18:14 and Luke 1:37)  He contains within Himself all of Divinity.  He is the Creator and Sustainer of all.

   In Isaiah 40: 26, God speaks:
Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:
   Who created all these?
He Who brings out the starry host one by one
   and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of His great power and mighty strength,
   not one of them is missing.  King James Version  (KJV) Public Domain

then, beginning with verse 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.

29) He gives strength to the weary
   and increases the power of the weak.

30) Even youths grow tired and weary,
   and young men stumble and fall;

31) but those who hope in the Lord
   will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles;
   they will run and not grow weary,
   they will walk and not be faint.  New International Version  (NIV)

   Finally, Elohim is relational.  He walked in the Garden of Eden with His creation.  He interacts with us.  He knows us intimately.  He has the hairs on your head numbered....and I don't know about you, but mine fall out all of the time. (Luke 12: 7, Matthew 10:30)  He keeps up with them.  Haha

   Tony Evans sums it up this way:  "Whatever God is going to do for you, He has already done.  Whatever God has planned for you to do, He has already planned.  Whatever God has purposed for your life, He has already purposed."  Tony references Ephesians 2:10 for that:  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

   I say, stop looking at your circumstances and focus on God.  He is able.  Trust in Him.  Amen?


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