What is the Nature of God

 

 

 

Long ago the people of Israel were lead out of Egypt by Moses. After leaving, their attitude and faith were tested. Over and over again, you can read that they were slow to grow in faith and their attitude needed lots ofwork.

But God had a plan. He wanted to meet them on the Mountain.  They did all the preparation as instructed by God through Moses. But when the lightning, earth quakes and fire came, they ran. They ran back to the camp and made the famous “Golden Calf” while Moses was up on the top of the Mountain and the Lord gave him the 10 commandments in stone.

Shortly after the Moses came down, he had a conversation with God where (I believe) He tested Moses by asking Moses if he (God) should wipe out the people of Israel and start over creating a New People, beginning with Moses.  Moses asked God, “But what will the Nations of the World think of You if you destroy them after saving them, delivering them from bondage? And then Moses says to God, “I’m (we) are not going anywhere without You”. God was pleased.

Moses presses God for more; he basically says, “Okay, I continue to lead the people of Israel but show me your Glory First!” and God agrees. Here is God doing that (Exodus 34: 6-7):

The Lord came down in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed his name, “the Lord.” The Lord passed in front of him and proclaimed:

The Lord ​— ​the Lord is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love and truth, maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, rebellion, and sin.

God declared His nature, His Identity. Declaring He ABOUNDS in Love and Forgiveness.  God told Moses Who He is. And He is who is says He is in ABOUNDING MEASURE (Hebrew meaning: much, many, abounding in, more numerous than (can be counted or measured), abundant (easy to find, everywhere), enough, great, strong, greater than, exceedingly, captain, chief).

No matter what we have done, do or will do, we can’t change who HE is. And He is who is HE is beyond measure. The Chief of Compassion. The Chief of Faithfulness. The Chief of Love. The Chief Truth. The Chief of Forgiveness. And He will NEVER DENY HIMSELF that JOY of being who He is (2 Tim 2:13).