One & Two

Psalm 62:11-12  One thing god has spoken, two things have I heard:  that you, O God, are strong, and that you, O Lord, are loving.  Surely you will reward each person according to what he has done.

There is more to God than we often acknowledge.

I find it interesting that David stated that God spoke one thing, yet he heard two things.  The two things being His strength and His love.  A lot of us tend to focus on one aspect of God or the other depending on the situation.  Often we focus on His love when we are thinking about ourselves, and on His strength in relation to others (namely those who we see as working against us).  However, God is not one thing or the other, He is everything all the time.

Every act of God has the force of His entire character behind it. For example, in the book of Exodus,  when God's presence was on Mount Sinai, there was a barrier around the base of the mountain. If the general public were to cross that barrier, they would die. At first glance, that doesn't sound very loving, but, in fact, it was. God was showing them that He was not like those household gods that they had gotten used to in Egypt who could be controlled by humans.  He was the Almighty, a fact that they needed to remember if they were to get through the wilderness alive.  A fact that they forgot, causing an entire generation to pass before they could enter the Promised Land.

We have to, I have to, remember that there is more to God than we often acknowledge, and that's a good thing.