YOUR CREATOR-LEARN WHAT HE IS LIKE

"I myself shall cause all my goodness to pass before your face, and I will declare the name of Jehovah before you." -EXODUS 33:19.


THE apostle John, writer of the last Bible book, recorded this  profound declaration about the Creator:  "You are worthy, Jehovah, even our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because  of your will they existed and were created." (Revelation 4:11)  As the preceding article established the findings of modern science often add to reasons for believing in the Creator of all things.  

As important as it is to accept that the Creator exists, it is equally important to learn what he is like-that he is a  real person, with a personality and ways that draw  people to him. To whatever extent you have done that, would it not be beneficial to get to know him better?  That does not require meeting him personally, in the sense that we meet other humans. 

Jehovah is the Source of even the stars, our sun being just as a medium-sized star.  Would you think of trying to have a close physical encounter with the sun?  Hardly!  Most people are careful  about even glancing at it or exposing their skin to its powerful rays for a long time. Its core temperature is some 15,000,ooo degrees Celsius (27, 000,000 degree F.)  Each second, this thermonuclear furnace transforms some four million tons of mass into energy as heat and light, but that amount sustains all life here. Those basic facts should impress us with the Creator's  awesome power.  Well could Isaiah write about "the abundance of [the Creator's ]dynamic energy, he also being vigorous in power." - Isaiah 40:26. 

Yet, did you know that some months after the Israelites left Egypt in 1513 B.C.E., Moses begged the Creator:  "Cause me  to see, please, your glorify."  (Exodus 33:18) Remembering that God is the Source of even the sun, you can understand why he told Moses to take a hiding place on Mount Sinai while He "passed by." Moses was then exposed to God's  "back,"as it were, to some kind of afterglow of the Creator's glory, or presence. -Exodus 33:20-23; John 1:18. 

Next time: Conclusion of YOUR CREATOR-LEARN WHAT HE IS LIKE 

From the Watchtower magazine, 1999