The
LORD’s Attributes & Personality
Throughout the
Scriptures as in reality in life, we discover that The LORD has AWESOME
ATTRIBUTES & MAJESTIC PERSONALITY.
The Exalted God
With what shall I come before the Lord
and bow down before the Exalted God?
Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
Mic 6:6 NIV
Prophet Micah acknowledged God Who is the Righteous
Judge as “the Exalted God”.
The Exalted God is the Lord Most High.
The 715 B.C prophet knew that what the Exalted God
is looking for in man is neither “thousands of rams,” nor “ten thousand rivers
of oil.” He discovered that what God is looking for is not “human-sacrifice”;
for, when Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son
Isaac, the Angel of the Lord called to him:
“Lay not thine hand
upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou
fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from Me”
(Gen 22:12 KJV).
Abraham had untiring-faith in God; he feared God and
obeyed Him—he passed the test. He received Isaac from the dead figuratively
(Heb. 11:17-19).
More so, in times before, Jephthah, the ninth judge
of Israel, made a rash vow, promising God that in exchange for victory in
battle against the Ammonites he would offer up as a ‘burnt offering’ the first
thing that should come out of his house to meet him on his return (Judg.
11:31). Jephthah acted according to his vow (v.39)—this was accepted by God,
for Jephthah himself made the promise!
“With
what shall I come before the Lord and bow down before the Exalted God?”
Prophet Micah understood what God requires of man: justice,
and mercy, and humility—because as recorded in Deuteronomy 10:12-13, Moses
communicated these words to Israel, after he received the two new tablets of
stones:
And now, Israel, what
doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in
all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart
and with all thy soul,
To keep the
Commandments of the Lord, and His statutes, which I command thee this day for
thy good? (KJV)