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Where Did God Come From?

There are many wonderful things about God that we cannot understand. We have already learned one of those things. We have learned that God can be everywhere at the same time. How strange this seems; we cannot understand how that can be at all! God has not explained this to us. When we get to Heaven, He will tell us all about it, and then we will know.

There is something else about God that we cannot understand. To tell you what this other thing is, I am going to ask you a question. Where did God come from? Did He have a father or a mother? No, God did not need a father and mother. He was never born. He was never a little child in Heaven who grew up. He was not born in Heaven because He has always been alive. He has always been great and wonderful, just exactly the same as He is now. He has always been alive.

God was alive yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that. He was alive before you were born and before Mother and Daddy were born. He was alive before Grandfather was born and before There were any rocks and trees and grass and animals. He was alive millions and millions of years also before anything else happened.

Who made God? No one did. God was not made by anyone. God has always been alive. We cannot understand this, but we know that it is true.

(1) Our Daily Devotion

We are midway through the fourth month of the year of grace 2018. How is your daily devotional life? Is it consistent? Are you drawing strength from the meditation of God’s Word through prayer for your daily needs? My encouragement for you is to persevere on! Since 1 January 2018, we have started the devotional study on the Book of Proverbs by Denis Gibson, “God for the Life that Wins!” with the scripture text for our encouragement to persevere, “…Let us run the race with patience… Looking unto Jesus…” (Hebrews 12:1-2). This is painstakingly put together for your edification. It can be found in the church website under “Devotions” https://www.blessedhope.sg/category/devotions/ . It is made available in the mobile church app under “Devotions”. It is also updated on the church’s Facebook page. Do avail yourself. The hardcopy book is also available upon request.

Today’s devotion is entitled “Folly’s Fate!” taken from Proverbs 9:13-18, Eph. 2:1-10 and 2 Pet. 3:1-7 “Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from secret [sins]” (Ps. 19:12).

(1) Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee

A Light from the Dark Ages

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) is considered the greatest of medieval saints. Martin Luther, himself a monk, wrote of him, “He was the best monk that ever lived, whom I admire beyond all the rest put together.” Born into a noble family in France, he turned his back on wealth and nobility to live as a monk and to advance the life of holiness, discipline, prayer, and ministering to the physical and spiritual needs of the people.

He and his followers hewed a home out of a wilderness of forests, a desolate haunt of robbers. The order he founded became the chief religious power in western Europe for three hundred years. Bernard’s writings and poetry became his lasting legacy to the church. His fruitful contemplation of eighty-six sermons on the first two chapters of the Song of Songs is a classic of biblical exposition.

The Forty Days of Confirmation

A.D. 30 April-May

Sunday

A Great Earth Quake

An Angel Rolls Away the Stone

The Guard Report to the Rulers

The Message of the Angels to the Women who Visit the Empty Tomb

Mary and the Others Report to the Disciples

Peter and John Visit the Tomb