Category: 2021 – The Apostles’ Creed

This month, we move from “God the Father” to the second Person of the Trinity: “Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord.”

If you attended a function at which Queen Elizabeth was present, she wouldn’t be introduced to you as Liz Windsor.  She would be presented as “Her Majesty Elizabeth II, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Norther Ireland and of her other realms and territories queen, head of the commonwealth, defender of the faith.”  Each part of the queen’s title explains her true identity.  The same can be said of this week’s portion of the Apostles’ Creed.  It presents God’s Son to us in terms that communicate who He is and the authority He commands.

The real centerpiece of the Apostles’ Creed is not a doctrine but a name.

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From Genesis 1:1, we learn that God created from nothing.  By the incomparable power of His will, God spoke everything into existence.  He’s Almighty.

As Matt Chandler noted in The Apostles’ Creed: Together We Believe, we all have to wrestle with the question of whether we believe God is good.

When we pray to God the Father for our “daily bread” as Jesus instructs in Matthew 6:9-11, we must recognize that our daily bread is not that God gives us everything we want.  It’s that He gives us what we actually need.

Our belief in God is more than a theological point of agreement about correct doctrine.  A right understanding of God is foundational to the way we live the Christian life with practical implications for our relationships with God and one another.  If God the Father Almighty is infinitely powerful yet intensely personal, that should shape how we live and how we counsel others.

Consider this Prayer today:

Father, by Your mighty word, You’ve brought everything into existence.  I can rightly call You my Maker and Creator.  Everything belongs to You, my Father.  Continually give me eyes to see Your beauty and ears to hear Your marvelous truth.  Thank You that not only are You my Creator, but You’re also my Father.  Draw me ever closer into fellowship with You, through the work of Your Son and by Your Holy Spirit. Amen.

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