{"id":47,"date":"2009-11-18T07:22:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T15:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=47"},"modified":"2009-11-18T08:03:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T16:03:25","slug":"nov-17-the-eternal-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Nov 17 The Eternal God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing . . . I will bless you . . . \u2014Genesis 22:16-17<br \/>\nAbraham, at this point, has reached where he is in touch with the very nature of God. He now understands the reality of God.<\/p>\n<p>My goal is God Himself . . .<br \/>\nAt any cost, dear Lord, by any road.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-53\" title=\"myutmostcover\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/myutmostcover.jpg\" alt=\"myutmostcover\" width=\"87\" height=\"130\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At any cost . . . by any road&#8221; means submitting to God\u2019s way of bringing us to the goal.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>There is no possibility of questioning God when He speaks, if He speaks to His own nature in me<\/strong>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Prompt obedience is the only result.<\/strong><\/span> When Jesus says, &#8220;Come,&#8221; I simply come; when He says, &#8220;Let go,&#8221; I let go; when He says, &#8220;Trust God in this matter,&#8221; I trust. This work of obedience is the evidence that the nature of God is in me.<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s revelation of Himself to me is influenced by my character, not by God\u2019s character.<\/p>\n<p>\u2019Tis because I am ordinary,<br \/>\nThy ways so often look ordinary to me.<\/p>\n<p>It is through the discipline of obedience that I get to the place where Abraham was and I see who God is. God will never be real to me until I come face to face with Him in Jesus Christ. Then I will know and can boldly proclaim, &#8220;In all the world, my God, there is none but Thee, there is none but Thee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The promises of God are of no value to us until, through obedience, we come to understand the nature of God. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">We may read some things in the Bible every day for a year and they may mean nothing to us. Then, because we have been obedient to God in some small detail, we suddenly see what God means and His nature is instantly opened up to us. <\/span>&#8220;All the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen . . .&#8221; (2 Corinthians 1:20). <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Our &#8220;Yes&#8221; must be born of obedience; when by obedience we ratify a promise of God by saying, &#8220;Amen,&#8221; or, &#8220;So be it.&#8221; That promise becomes ours.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing . . . I will bless you . . . \u2014Genesis 22:16-17 Abraham, at this point, has reached where he is in touch with the very nature of God. He now understands the reality of God. My goal is God Himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}