Our God is Awesome!

“For I proclaim the name of the Lord; Ascribe greatness to our God! The Rock! His work is perfect, for all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and upright is He.”  Deuteronomy 32:3-4     

It is a thrilling exercise to note all the holy and gracious attributes attached to the name of God by the writers of Holy Scripture. In our text, for example, taken from the song of Moses, God is called a “God of faithfulness.” According to the prophet Isaiah, “the Lord is a God of justice” (Isaiah 30:18). David called God both the “righteousness” and the “God of deliverances” (Psalms 4:1; 68:20).

In the New Testament, Stephen called Him “the God of glory” (Acts 7:2). Paul called Him both “the God who gives perseverance and encouragement” and “the God of hope” (Rom. 15:5, 13), when he wrote to the persecuted believers in the great capital of the Roman Empire.

To the carnal Christians in Corinth, He was called the “God of all comfort” and “the God of love and peace” (2 Cor. 1:3; 13:11), and to the suffering believers in Philippi, Paul identified Him as the “God of peace” (Phil. 4:9).

The apostle Peter called Him “the God of all grace” (1 Peter 5:10), and the writer of Hebrews recognized Him as both “God, the Judge of all” and “the God of peace” (Heb. 12:23; 13:20).
   
Our God is, indeed, the God Who is all in all to His people. He is the God of truth and righteousness, of peace and love, of patience and comfort, of hope and grace, glory, and salvation. “Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are Your ways,  King of the nations!” (Rev. 15:3). Is He, above all, “Lord of all” in us who know Him?