Holy Week: A Personal God- ebooks-freezone
God is a personal God. Even the thunderous, Mt. Sinai, pestilence-bringing, smiting God of the Old Testament. Yes. Especially the Old Testament God. And of course in the New Testament God is a personal God, too. We see Him in Jesus, who is both fully man and fully God. He had come to serve. He did so meekly and humbly, even washing feet. We read in Genesis that God created the worlds, He did it personally and carefully, with precision. He spoke them into life. 'In the beginning, God said'... He spoke. And God said, And God said, Genesis 1:3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24. When it came time to form man, God did not speak. He did it Himself, personally, and with His own breath. then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature... (Genesis 2:7) Therefore, we see that God's intimate formation of the world got even more intimate when He made man. It gets even better. Because of the life, death