24 Sep 2013; Isa 43-44

The first thing about theology is about "Who God is".

Isa 44:6: I am the first and I am the last, besides me there is no god

1. He is I am - there is no other ways you can describe God using all the created things and creature
2. He is the first and the last - from the time we as human beings began and to the end, He was there, is there and will be there
3. There is no other who is God - the only true God

This is only theology, but it is for us to understand the god that we Christian profess God.

Understand theology leads us to the next application question - "Who is our alliance?"

Yes, we know God - but is it just a textbook understanding - a fact that we remember? The action is is this God who we preach and act on our alliance - the one God that we call Lord and master. Alliance is also about who is our master.

I must admit that I know who God is - hope not just head knowledge, but God is my Lord - knowing who God is in my heart. I pray that the later part is an integrate part of my life.

I am not young - what is there in God's kingdom that is for me, what does m Master want out of me? Am I just a create being - over in excess in production and failed some quality test and have to be put aside.

Yes, for the moment, but I pray that I can be useful - recycle and reuse.

I end with the following verse to encourage:
 Isa 42:6-9

“I am the Lord; oI have called you2 in righteousness;

I will take you by the hand and keep you;

I will give you pas a covenant for the people,

qa light for the nations,

7 rto open the eyes that are blind,

to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,

sfrom the prison those who sit in darkness.

8 I am the Lord; that is my name;

tmy glory I give to no other,

nor my praise to carved idols.

9 Behold, the former things have come to pass,

uand new things I now declare;

before they spring forth

I tell you of them.”