His name.
Call His name.
Expect Him to turn His attention towards you and respond to you, as anyone else would do, assuming you call Him by His true name, and that you call His name with respect.
Simple.
But some don't believe this.
Why?
As it is written, "Those who come to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him."
So, some people don't call His name because they don't believe He exists.
Or they don't call His name because they are not earnest, or diligent, or sincere.
Yet again, they don't call His name because they don't believe He will answer even if they are earnest, or sincere, or diligent.
Now would you answer someone who negated your very existence, even though you sat in the very same room with him? Would you respond to someone if she refused to accept you for who you are?
What if someone considered you completely untrustworthy?
What if someone came to you with utter insincerity?
So it is with God, the Supreme Person, the Ultimate Personality.
Perhaps you ask the question asked long ago by Moses at the burning bush. Perhaps you want to know what His name is.
This was God's answer to Moses, when Moses asked for the name of God:
I am who I am.
Tell the children of Israel "I am" sent me to you.
He is.
He is who He is.
So when you approach Him, in this way you may address Him:
To The One Who Is,
The One Who Is Who He is
I come to You accepting You for Who and What You are.
First and foremost, He is our Creator and Maker. Address Him as the One who made you. As it is written,
"You are worthy Oh Lord to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by your will they exist and were created."
This includes you. By God's will you exist. For God's will you were created.
Yet we rejected God's will in exchange for our will, separating ourselves from the very source of our life. And like a leaf plucked from a tree, when we rejected God's will, we died. We may be young, green leaves, old brown leaves, or dying crinkled leaves. But dead we are. As a leaf plucked from a branch is dead, we who separated our selves from God's will are dead.
So we must come to God not only as our Creator, but also as our Savior, as the only one who can raise us from the dead, the only one that can reattach a leaf to its branch. The penalty for disobedience to God is death. Yet God Himself paid the penalty for us by becoming one of us and dying for us. Upon accepting what God did as our Savior, we now call Him by the name "Lord and Master." We give our lives to Him and exchange our wills for His.
And having took the death penalty for all humanity, He rose from the dead, so that the next name we may call our Creator, Lord, and Master is now God our Father!
Yes!
Father!
If you trust in God, and accept that He took the death penalty for you and me, then at that moment of trust you become a child of God, and from that moment forth you may address Him as children address a perfectly loving Father.
This is the beautiful way to enter the direct presence of God.
Enter it now!
Wait no longer!
Call the name of the One who Is Who He Is:
Creator
Savior
Lord and Master
Father
"You are worthy Oh Lord to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by your will they exist and were created."
This includes you. By God's will you exist. For God's will you were created.
Yet we rejected God's will in exchange for our will, separating ourselves from the very source of our life. And like a leaf plucked from a tree, when we rejected God's will, we died. We may be young, green leaves, old brown leaves, or dying crinkled leaves. But dead we are. As a leaf plucked from a branch is dead, we who separated our selves from God's will are dead.
So we must come to God not only as our Creator, but also as our Savior, as the only one who can raise us from the dead, the only one that can reattach a leaf to its branch. The penalty for disobedience to God is death. Yet God Himself paid the penalty for us by becoming one of us and dying for us. Upon accepting what God did as our Savior, we now call Him by the name "Lord and Master." We give our lives to Him and exchange our wills for His.
And having took the death penalty for all humanity, He rose from the dead, so that the next name we may call our Creator, Lord, and Master is now God our Father!
Yes!
Father!
If you trust in God, and accept that He took the death penalty for you and me, then at that moment of trust you become a child of God, and from that moment forth you may address Him as children address a perfectly loving Father.
This is the beautiful way to enter the direct presence of God.
Enter it now!
Wait no longer!
Call the name of the One who Is Who He Is:
Creator
Savior
Lord and Master
Father
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