God's First Question (Part 2)

Jesus answered, "Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going.  John 8:14

And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased." 
Matthew 3:17

“I believe that God made me for a purpose. But He also made me fast, and when I run, I feel His pleasure.” Eric Liddell

Jesus knew His origin and destination, the answers to God's ultimate questions: 

"Where have you come from and where are you going?"

In knowing these, He felt God's pleasure, the smile of God from the heart of God.

When you fulfill your purpose, when you live according to your origin and destination, you will touch the heart of God and feel God's pleasure in you!

Imagine that!

Imagine being a singer.
Imagine singing your heart out, pouring out your life in your heart song.
Now imagine touching God.  Imagine tears filling the eyes of Jesus.  Imagine overwhelming the Spirit with deep emotion.

This is what it's like when you know and live according your origin and destination.

Imagine being an artist who paints a tree with the moon in the background.
Imagine the sense of fulfillment you have when what you felt when you saw this mysterious scene is perfectly captured in the portrait.
Now imagine God whispering to you, "Finally, someone understands me.  Finally someone sees what I see."

I believe this is what it meant for David to be a "man after God's own heart." 
I believe God finally found someone in Israel who really understood Him, that David alone understood how God felt.

As it is written by the Prophet Jeremiah,

Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”

 

You are made in the image of God in such a way that you understand and know Him like no other creature. 

 

In this you will feel Gods pleasure. 

This is your origin and destination. 

This is where you come from. 

This is where you are going.

God's first question

But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” Genesis 3:9

Here we are.
Writing and reading.
Why?
What drew you to me and me to you?
What draws me to you is the truth.
The words of God.
The first question of God:

Where

are

you?

Right now.
In life.
You know where you are geographically.
But where are we eternally?
Where are you in life approaching death?
This is the first question God asked the first man.
The question He asks you right now.

Where are you?

 

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?  If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?  Genesis 4:6-7

 

What are you feeling right now?  And why?

Why are we unhappy?  Why are we angry?

Why do we feel rejected?  Or why don't we care whether we are accepted or rejected?

Do we care to do what is right?

The penetrating questions of God must be answered.  Will be answered. 







The angel of the Lord found Hagar beside a spring of water in the wilderness, along the road to Shur.  The angel said to her, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where have you come from, and where are you going?”  Genesis 16:7-8

 

God's first questions, and all of God's questions come back to these two questions:  our origin and destination.

 

What are we doing and why are we doing it?

Sooner or later we must answer.

On the day we die we will answer, once and for all. 

But why wait until it's too late?

 

Where are you? 

Where have you come from?

Where are you going?