Ian's Message

 

Who is God & Who are We?

Before we can properly know who we are, we have to know who God is. The two questions are tightly linked and at times indistinguishable. During our Sunday meetings in January we have seen that in identifying who Jesus is through scripture, we can identify who God is because Jesus is the incarnation of God - he is God.

We have discovered how scripture tells us that Jesus was identified as Saviour; that God identified Jesus as his Son; and we have seen how the prophets paved the way for Jesus to be identified as King. King of the universe and King of our lives.

Having identified who God is we then turned to question 'who are we?' and as before we began to find the answers in scripture. One of the first things that Jesus did at the start of his earthly ministry was to identify people as disciples and as needing healing.

This month we continue this exploration as we open further the window to God through scripture.

As we reflect on the economic state of our country and the world it's very easy to become despondent. With unemployment rising, especially among young people, prices rising and growth almost stagnating we could be forgiven for thinking that the prospect for recovery is dim, life is becoming increasingly dark and that we are virtually powerless to do anything about it! One could almost say that we have become captives. The Prophet Isaiah writing some 700 years before Christ's birth was writing to a people in captivity for whom life had become dark and power had been literally taken away. The prophet responds to the dispirted Israelites by pointing them back to God and stressing God's greatness and power, using images drawn from creation.

Although their circumstances may suggest otherwise, and the people have looked too much at their circumstances and not understood God's unsearchable wisdom, there is, in fact, no one equal to God. God never grows faint or weary, in contrast to how we as people feel, and God gives power and strength to those who wait, that they too will never faint.

This is why it is so important that we truly know who God is for only then can we begin to see the limitless opportunities that he provides for his creation; only then can we begin to understand who we are and begin to be the very people we were created to be.

Please do join us this month at our Sunday meetings or during the week at our Fellowship meetings or at our Meeting Point Charity Shop, that together we can discover Who is God & Who are We?