Our God by Chris Tomlin

God is passionate for His glory to shown on the earth. He desires that the earth look to Him and accredit Him for their existence, their success, their capabilities, their strength – their everything pretty much.

The Lord thunders His own greatness in Isaiah 45:5-7:

“I am the Lord, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me, that they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other.”

Chris Tomlin’s song “Our God” really grabs you by the shoulders and rattles you to remind us that “Our God is greater”. This song touch me personally when I was under a stockpile of stress. I was in over my head with assignment deadlines and on top of that I was under the weather.

Thank God for Pandora. I had my playlist on and then this song faded in:

Water you turned into wine, opened the eyes of the blind there’s no one like you, none like You!
Into the darkness you shine out of the ashes we rise there’s no one like you none like You!

The problems around me grew strangely dim as I listened intently to the song. Then the chorus rolled in:

Our God is greater, our God is stronger, God you are higher than any other.
Our God is Healer, Awesome in Power, Our God! Our God!

I felt like an idiot for a brief instant. I thought: “I’ve been adopted by the God who is all awesome in power and I am here moaning in anxiety?”

Romans 8:31 rung loudly in my soul: “If God is for us, who can be against us?” Sounds very familiar to the bridge of the song doesn’t it?

And if our God is for us, then who could ever stop us.
And if our God is with us, then what could stand against.
And if our God is for us, then who could ever stop us.
And if our God is with us, then what could stand against.
What could stand against.

God is passionate about exerting His power to us so we can see and confess His awesomeness. God delights in these situations, because it’s an opportunity for us to experience His excellent, everlasting strength when we call on Him for help.

For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. (2 Chronicles 16:9 NKJV).

(Read about God’s glory and our prayers: Giving God Burdens, Your Obedience, His Glory)

Our God is greater than all and fill in the blank. I’m so grateful that God has blessed us with songs like these that awake our soul to turn our eyes upon God and trust in Him.

If you haven’t heard the song yet, check it out:

Giving God Burdens, Your Obedience, His Glory

Every matter, no matter the size, God wants you to call on Him. God wants your mundane issues, and He wants your big problems.

You obey God when you call on Him for help.

He commands it. When we pray, “give us this day our daily bread”.* It’s not a ritual prayer for well meaning, but a model that God planned to tells us that He wants us daily to ask Him to provide us help.

He promises to help us when we throw our problems upon Him:

Cast your burden on the Lord, And He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved. (Psalm 55:22 NKJV)

Give God all your problems. Especially the ones you know you can’t resolve.

Frankly, You are human which means you’re weak, never perfect. We all are!

We live in an imperfect world. You may even start off great, but then end in an overwhelming predicament. Life is like that.

You glorify God when you call on Him for help.

God delights in these situations, because it’s an opportunity for us to experience His excellent, everlasting strength when we call on Him for help.

“For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him…” (2 Chronicles 16:9 NKJV)

Don’t keep any loads. Throw them all upon God. His strength is perfected in our weakness.*

Our God is ALMIGHTY God.

*Matthew 6:11

**“And He said to me,’My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” (2 Corinthians 12:9 NKJV)

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What’s in His Name?

I was mediating today and I was thinking about the name of Jesus. I was thinking how at the name of Jesus, people turn mute; faces translate heart secrets: Men rage, women sigh, a child presses his eyebrows toward the center of his face, exposing curiosity.

Can we say that speaking the name Jesus has a supernatural effect on people? I want to believe so.

We do know that there is power in His name:

> We find Life:

“But these (the words to the Gospel of John) are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.” -John 20:31

>We get Access:

“…Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.” -John 16:23b

>We are freed from sin:

“I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake.” -1 John 2:12

We also see that there is a day that everyone observe and reverence the name of Jesus:

“That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” -Philippians 2:10-11.

What’s in a name? Well, there is a lot to this one.

Jesus Gave His Life

“…I lay down my life…” -John 10:17

Do you know that Jesus wasn’t killed but that He gave up His life?

Yes, He was crucified on the sentence of death, but when they hanged Him on the cross they did not kill Him.

He died on the cross on His call. We can know this by referring to Luke 23:46: “And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, “Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit.’” By the words of His mouth, He let Himself die.

Listen to Jesus again. “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.” (John 10:17-18).

Although crucified in weakness as a man, Christ on the cross was still God Almighty. He still possess power of His deity even at His death. “No one takes it from Me” – no took Jesus’ life from Him, but He lay it down of Himself to give His life to save us.

Mark 10:45 says, “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” He came to give His life to ransom us from sin.

Jesus was both God and man. He lived His entire life on Earth in this manifestation, especially on the cross. He suffered and died as a man did dying on a cross, but He also experienced death as Jesus -The God Who Saves.

He lay down His life on the cross and took it up again when He rose again on the third day.

Our Jesus is both power and love. He authored life even at death when He lay it down by His will. That’s the God whom you worship – Jesus whom you love.