It is God’s power that works in us to cleanse us. As Paul says in Ephesians 1:20, “This power working in us is the same as the mighty strength which He used when He raised Christ from death and seated Him at his right side in the heavenly world.”

God offered his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, as the propitiation for our sins. Thanks to the physical death of Christ on the cross, those whom God had chosen before creation have been legally justified before God, for Christ took their sins upon Himself and his righteousness has been imputed to them. That is their sins have been forgiven, and God treats them as righteous. No human being can atone for his own sin, no one can appease God’s wrath. As Paul says in Ephesians 1:11, “God chose us to be his own people in union with Christ because of his own purpose, based on what He had decided from the very beginning.” Romans 8:29-30 tells us: “Those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.”

God alone is the Creator. He breathed all things into existence. Nothing came into being apart from the work of God the Creator. “All things were created by Him, and all things exist through Him and for Him.” (Romans 11:36). He is the beginning and the end of all things, the Alpha and the Omega, the source of life and the Word through whom all things came into being. God is a self-existent being, the Word through whom all things were made. John 1:1-5 says, “In the beginning the Word already existed; the Word was with God and the Word was God. From the very beginning the Word was with God. Through Him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without Him. The Word was the source of life. And this life brought light to humanity. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out.” 

The Lord holds our lives in his hands. We do not tell Him what to do or how to do it. He works all things according to his will and He treats us according to his grace and mercy. The command of the Lord brought the universe into being. With this same command He will put an end to all things. Heaven and earth will pass away. But the Word, the Creator will be sovereign forever. For thus says the Lord in Haggai 2:6-9, “Before long I will shake heaven and earth, land and sea. I will overthrow all the nations, and their treasures will be brought here, and the Temple will be filled with wealth. All the silver and gold of the world is mine. The new Temple will be more splendid than the old one, and there I will give my people prosperity and peace.”

The phrase ‘God is sovereign’ means that the Lord has the right, the wisdom, the authority, the power and the discretion to do whatever He wills to do. In eternity past God had ordained all things that would happen, and He carries out his will freely and discretionarily. As Paul says in Ephesians 1:11, “He works all thing according to the counsel of his will.”

No human being born of a man and a woman lives to the standard set by the Lord God Almighty. As Romans 3: 23 says, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” But God, through his Son Jesus Christ freely justifies all who believe in Christ and reconciles them to his glory. God does this to demonstrate his righteousness.

Moral excellence, benevolence is a quality proper to the Sovereign Lord. “No one is good except God alone.” Mark 10:18. God’s goodness is abundantly revealed to us in creation and in his redemptive work through his Son Jesus Christ, in response to the depravity that characterizes humanity since the fall of the first man. Through Christ God justifies the wicked we are; He regenerates and sanctifies us. Christ is the revelation of God’s goodness. 

God's uniqueness is revealed to us by his attributes. Although words are not enough to fully describe who God is, knowing his attributes, however, is important when we seek to truly know Him; that is to love Him, to obey his commands, to worship Him and to honor his Son Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

For his own glory the Almighty God created us. He made us males and females and commanded us to keep our bodies pure. 1 Corinthians 6:13, “The body is not to be used for sexual immorality, but to serve the Lord; and the Lord provides for the body.” The Lord tells us in Leviticus 18:22-23, “No man is to have sexual relations with another man; God hates that. No man or woman is to have sexual relations with an animal; that perversion makes you ritually unclean.” Leviticus 18:29, “You know whoever does any of these disgusting things will no longer be considered one of God’s people.”

There is a stream of happiness that flows from the Kingdom of God. Those who drink from it never get thirsty again.

The Lord our God created us and gave us his teachings to instruct us to do good and avoid evil. The Lord is the pillar that sustains our lives. We cannot live a happy life when we ignore God's words. It is only by obeying the Lord's command that humanity can live a life full of joy. Unfortunately, many of us have turned their backs against God. The impact of our spiritual barrenness in our daily life is tremendous. It is time for us to understand that we are nothing without God. Those who trust in Him are never disappointed; they have all they need. For the Lord their God is always by their side. The Lord Almighty is the Stone of Help.