MY GOD

MY GOD
Psalm 40:1-5

As we have focused over the last three weeks on the importance of Growing God’s Way we have seen that man does not naturally grow the way God intends.
Rather, we tend to drift away from God because we are sinners.
However, if we will follow His program for growth we will flourish, unobstructed by bitterness and sin, into the likeness of His son, Jesus Christ, Whose grace will flow through us to a lost and dying world.

Today, we will move back toward the theme for the year, relationships.
I was recently asked about what it was that inspires the sermon on Sunday.
Usually, it is the fruit of my own personal Bible study, but at times God uses some circumstance or crisis to bring to my mind some item of utmost importance.
When this happens, I am driven into the word with a passion to find God’s perspective on a particular matter.
Such is the case this morning.

I recently was searching a video sharing website with my wife when we found a set of debates between creationists and evolutionists.
Debates of this sort are generally rare because evolutionists typically decline to debate the science of creationism because they do not want to admit that the issue is still up for debate.
It is quite possible that they have seen the outcome of nearly all debates on the subject and decide to not become another statistic.

However, in watching a few of these intellectual jousts I was stricken by the hatred that the evolutionists and the self-proclaimed atheists have toward God.
On the one hand, they claim to be completely logical and scientific in their approach to the subject with an open mind to any outcome.
In the end, they invariably become emotionally irate and even vicious in their attacks against the person of a God they claim does not exist.

Something drives them with a fury that is hard to explain.

I personally do not believe in Aliens.
I do not, however, feel any hatred toward Aliens, because they do not exist!
If I were to express disdain or utter invectives against aliens, it would naturally follow that I could not shake the reality of their existence from my mind.
It might even indicate that, in my battle to not believe in them, I was losing, and my hatred was rather evidence of their existence.

In one instance, a self-proclaimed atheist lady, after mocking the poor deluded fools who insist on believing in the fantasy of God, said, with a voice shaking with rage, “I would rather go to hell than go to heaven and worship a megalomaniacal tyrant.”

As I often do, I inserted myself into the debate, speaking to the prerecorded image as if she could hear my question.
This question rose up in me with an urgency that only spontaneity can describe.
“Why do you hate Him so much?”

Before I could even finish, I knew the answer.
They don’t know MY GOD.

The more I thought of this the more I felt sympathy for these people who have dedicated their lives to disproving the existence of God.

They know information about God from some source, and they have filtered that information through their own sin-sick set of prejudices, but they do not know MY GOD.

This morning I want to introduce you to MY GOD.
If you are struggling with His reality I want you to experience Him this morning.
If you are one of His children, you should be longing to know Him better, and the more you engage in that search to know Him the less you will be distraught by the failures of people around you.

He is all you need.
He is the best part of this life, and He is the hope that I have for the next one.

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There are several things from our text and from elsewhere in the Bible that I would like to point out to you about MY GOD.

1.) MY GOD is passionate about having a relationship with me.
a. Verse 5 – His thoughts toward me are innumerable.
b. Ps 139:17 ¶ How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! 18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand:
c. His very act of creation proves his penchant for having a relationship with man.


2.) MY GOD is intent on revealing Himself to me.
a. Through creation – Ps 19:1 ¶ The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
b. Through messengers and then through his own Son. – Hebrews 1:1 ¶ God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son
c. He has purposefully shown us His perfections. They are not merely attributes, they are perfections.


3.) MY GOD is holy (separated from sin)
a. This is His primary attribute – Psalm 99:9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.
b. Unlike the gods of others – Exodus 15:11 Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness,
c. The glimpse He has given us of Him in heaven – Isaiah 6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.


4.) MY GOD loves me.
a. This is revealed in His works of creation. – Psalm 8:3 ¶ 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.
b. This is revealed in His active work of making me worthy of His presence. – Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
c. This is revealed by His willingness to pay my sin debt – John 3:16 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. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

I could say so much more about MY GOD, but time is short this morning.
I would only encourage you to get to know Him.

Have you noticed, brother or sister, that you have been distracted by the faults and failures of others and discouraged by your own shortcomings?

I would challenge you to change your focus.
Stop looking at and dwelling on everyone else’s problems.
Stop looking within to find a faultlessness that is not there.
Look to the One Who never disappoints.
Look to MY GOD.

Are you lost in your search for hope in life?

I can introduce you to One who loves you more than you can imagine.
MY GOD is looking for you.

Our text ends with a prayer we should all echo.
Ps 40:17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.