The Attributes Of God (Hebrews 1:9-14)
(Hebrews 1:9-14)
God- Loves Righteousness
Maybe this is one of the most understated attributes of God yet it is the first one we come across in today's passage. God loves righteousness and absolutely hates sin. The bible really spells it out here. Look at the verse:
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
Now you may think there is nothing unusual about that. But to me it is so strange that it spells it out. And yet the bible so often leaves us with no excuse. Back up with me here and we'll have a look into it again! In my opinion (and I think you will agree) to say that God loves righteousness automatically means that he will absolutely hate wickedness. Righteousness is defined surely by the hatred of all that is wrong and evil. You can't love righteousness and be alright about wickedness, it isn't possible and certainly not with God!
Keep with me here, so why have they mentioned it? Well two reasons I think:
1) So noone can twist scripture on this issue. We all know how the bible has been twisted by many people and cults over the years. By stating the obvious here people will find it hard to corrupt.
2) It shows how important the issue is. So important that it is stated when you would expect it just to be accepted with no issue at all. It is there in black and white. If you remember anything about God remember this: God loves righteousness and hates wickedness!
Stay with me, this is going to be no use to you as a piece of theology until you open yourself up to embrace the truth. Excuse the expression, but the thought of sinning should put the fear of God into you. I apologise because that is absolutely what it will do! We know how much God hates sin and yet we still will-fully sin? I question mine and your salvation if this is the case. Don't let that shock you too much, but we are told to test ourselves. Have we repented and believed? My prayer is that today's study will open your eyes and mine to the horror of sin and the truth of Gods love of righteousness.
God - Creator
It really annoys me when people use prayers in prayer meetings to teach everyone theology. You get the old "In the beginning Lord you made the heaven and the earth and made male and female, birds and animals, cars....." and so on, but it is interesting that the psalmist talks about God in such a way in his words here. I am not condoning a theology lesson instead of a prayer every prayer meeting. But in our own time with God it is good to think and talk about what he has done especially creation.
But why is creation so important! I will let you go and spend time talking with Answers in Genesis and other organisations of the same ilk to let you know that truth! But let me encourage you to take yourself a crash course on creationist apologetics. Probably only because they have a really cool name.
God- Eternal
Let us never forget finally the eternal nature and aspect of God and it is from here that I will draw today's final conclusion. Each of you and myself here need to take on some responsibility for our own personal walk with God! And therefore I challenge you to take God at his word and make sure you take these applications and actually apply them to yourself personally.
God is Eternal, he was and is and always will be. He is also righteous. What does all this add up too if you're a Christian? Simple!
You can place your trust in every situation in the Lord Jesus Christ
My friend never let it be said of us that we messed up our lives because we didn't trust God. Yet so often the fear and laziness, apathy and carelessness and everything else we see in our own lives as well as in the Christian Church worldwide is because we do not take the truths and applications we KNOW and live them with all we've got. This is a hard one, but by the grace of God pray that we will trust him!
May God be with you and me as we press on in grace!
