God Almighty, None Compares

First, watch this video:

God Almighty, None Compares

I must go on and say that the entire CD is amazing. It's a new kind of Christian music I'm unfamiliar with and the style is really...well, sweet. Ha. On with my thoughts!

"Glory and honor...wisdom and power...Grace and fury...splendor and might...O you are splendor and might...Matchless beauty...endless light...All heaven's ringing...All the angels are singing...All heaven's ringing...All the angels are singing...You are all i need...You're my everything...God almighty...God almighty."

God Almighty. El Shaddai. All-sustaning God. God of Everything. God of All. Who is worthy to be mentioned alongside you? To whom shall we go? You are God, the Living God, the only God--nothing compares.

Do you know who this God is or have you fastened for yourself an idol, a God you can deal with on your own terms? It's a tough question, I know--but a necessary one. The Living God cannot be contained, and can hardly be grasped by the human mind. But we are certain of a great many of the personal attributes of God--and are all the more amazed because of it.

He sustains and loves a creation which He cannot possibly benefit from. He perfectly balances grace and fury. He is without beginning, without end. All power belongs to Him--and He speaks worlds into existence. His wisdom is unsurpassed. Righteousness, glory, splendor--all belong to Him for He alone deserves them.

Perhaps the most amazing fact of all is that He has allowed us to come and stand before Him, to renew a right relationship with Him through His Son--and yet, knowing all of this--we so often fail to strive for increasing closeness and intimacy with the all-sustaining God in our day-to-day lives.

This must change. We must above all else desire to know God more and more with each breath we take, or we will inevitably be going in th opposite direction--away from the heart of God.

Slow down. Take in the breath of God and let your life be an outpouring testimony of His love and power--forsake all else, and you will find the peace and purpose God has been trying to give you all along.

"My desire for you is that you may be like Moses--so close to God, that no one can look at you without realizing that you have been in the presence of something, something totally different." I recently heard a pastor say this at a revival. He was talking about Moses, after he had seen the "backside" of God. Moses had literally only seen where God's presence, stuffed into a finite space, had just been--and yet his face glowed so that it bewildered (and frightened) the Israelites.

Pray that you may be so close to God that no one can associate with you without feeling the full weight and power of the Holy Spirit upon you. It's a tall order--but it is precisely why Jesus Christ died and rose--and we must take our responsibilities to be Christ to the world more seriously than anyhing else.

Thanks. I hope I get some more blog visitors soon and I pray that whoever happens to read some of this suff is touched and God has used me to minister to someone.

-CF