Jehovah, the Infinite God

Yesterday we saw the greatness of God in His holiness and judgment of sin.  Nathan Stone in The Names of God declares that "it is this righteousness of Jehovah against which men sin."  We sin against the God who is completely and utterly perfect and flawless, infinite and right in all He does.  

When we go our own way, every day, we declare to Him that our way is better than His.  We take our lives into our own hands.  Is that really where we want our lives to be?  These hands are so full of self-serving and idol worship.

Woe is me, I am undone.  I am a woman of unclean lips and I dwell among a people of unclean lips.

And that only begins to scratch the surface.  

And it is as Jehovah that God pronounces judgment against the sin we so brazenly commit against Him.  It is as Jehovah that He pours our His wrath.  

 

But it is also as Jehovah that God says this to Moses:

I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the Lord.’” (Exodus 6:2-8, ESV)

He is a God who loves, who planned all along to love.  

He planned our rescue from slavery. 

He planned to make us His people, 

and to dwell among us.  

He has heard our groaning.  Meditate on that. 

And think about the One over whom He poured His wrath. 

This is our Jehovah God. 

Oh our God, we worship You.