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God Is a Person, September 21
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word
of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do
appear.
Hebrews 11:3
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The whole of the natural world bears testimony of the works of the living
God. Nature is our lesson book, given to us by God, the Creator of all things.
These things of nature are not to be called God. They are the expression of
God’s character, but they are not God. By the things of His creation, we may
understand God, and His love, His power, and His glory, but there is a great
danger of men worshiping nature as God.
The artistic skill of human beings produces very fine samples of beautiful
workmanship, revealing things which delight the eye, and these things give
us something of the idea of the designer, but the thing made is not the man. It
is not the work that is to be exalted, but the man who designed the things so
much prized. So it is with nature. The Lord’s power is constantly revealed as
a miracle-working power, that the human family may see an infinity above
and beyond the things made, that they may know that He who formed such a
being as man, has also created all the beauties of the natural world.
There are many issues in our world today in regard to the Creator not
being a personal God. God is a being, and man was made in His image. After
God created man in His image, the form was perfect in all its arrangements,
but it had no vitality. Then a personal, self-existing God breathed into that
form the breath of life, and man became a living, breathing, intelligent being.
All parts of the human machinery were put in motion. The heart, the arteries,
the veins, the tongue, the hands, the feet, the perceptions of the mind, the
senses, were placed under physical law. It was then that man became a living
soul.
Through Jesus Christ, God—not a perfume, not something intangible,
but a personal God—created man, and endowed him with intelligence and
power....
The Lord is a living, personal God. A living, personal Saviour came to our
world to make of none effect the specious twistings and serpentine turnings
of Satan.—
Manuscript 117, September 21, 1898
, “A Personal God.”
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