None Like You

The more I fall in love with my precious Savior the more I realize how desperately I need Him and how amazingly blessed beyond all comprehension I am to have a heavenly Father who is intimately involved in my life. Recently I stumbled across the lyrics to a song I really love...

Shane and Shane "There is None Like You"
There is none like You
No one else can touch my heart like You do
I could search for all eternity long
And find
There is none like You

Your mercy flows like a river wide
And healing comes in Your Name
Helpless children are safe in Your arms
And there is none like you

In our depravity as humanity we are quick to trust in ourselves and in others to find answers, joy, or satisfaction but what an emptiness that brings. There is nothing in this world that can bring the kind of joy, peace and true satisfaction that our Father in Heaven so graciously bestows upon His kids. Looking back in my life the times that were the most fulfilling and satisfying are the moments when I was broken before my Father in heaven and clinging tightly to His promises and the hope that I have in Jesus Christ. I think of passages in Scripture that talk about how we are refined, sharpened, and made more and more like Christ as we pursue Him and holiness and I graple to understand what a privilege that is. Have we really ever thought of that? Have we grasped the fact that the God of the universe cares for a creature like us and takes the time to prune us into perfection like His Son?! Amazing it leaves me speechless.

Take a look at God and you will quickly realize that there is none like Him!

THE ABILITY TO KNOW GOD:
"All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him." Matthew 11:27
"For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe." 1 Corinthians 1:21

"Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." John 17:3

( I Jn 4:8 I Jn 1:5 John 4:24 Rom 3:26)

THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD:
"Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me.

I make known the end from the beginning,
from ancient times, what is still to come.
I say: My purpose will stand,
and I will do all that I please.

From the east I summon a bird of prey;
from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose.
What I have said, that will I bring about;
what I have planned, that will I do."
-Isaiah 46:9-11

(Josh 11:20 Dan 5:20 Mk 6:52 Rom 11:7 Rom 9:18)

THE LOVE OF GOD:
"Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." 1 John 4:8

GOD IS MIGHTY:
"God is mighty, but does not despise men;
he is mighty, and firm in his purpose." Job 36:5

GOD IS FAITHFUL:
"God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful." 1 Corinthians 1:9

GOD IS EVERLASTING:
"Before the mountains were born
or you brought forth the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God." Psalm 90:2

GOD IS UNCHANGING:
"I the LORD do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed." Malachi 3:6

I could go on and on with hundreds upon hundreds of verses to show you the character of God and the fact that there really is nothing and nobody that compares. May this humble us and bring us to the constant realization of how truly blessed we are to have been plucked from eternity apart from Him to share in the fellowship with our King. God you are so good, so faithful, so wonderful, so indescribable...there is none like you!