Safety, welfare, contentment, and completeness are all wrapped up in the word peace. When God gives us His peace, He gives us the Person of Peace, Jesus Christ. And through Him, we can cast our concerns in the lap of our God and enjoy His rest.

Come, let’s reason together. That’s the compassionate invitation from our Lord to safely share all our sins and struggles with Him. He will show us the truth about our circumstances and, through that truth, empower us to live lives that honor Him.

Knowing God as Adonai changes us. Receiving Him as sovereign leads to a vulnerable transparency between God and his children, where we recognize our total inadequacy but move forward with a bold trust of His strength in us.

Sovereign. Ruler. Master. All these define Adonai (Lord). We use this name for God a lot. But like Abram, we often don’t fully appreciate its meaning until we find ourselves in difficult circumstances we can’t manage on our own.

As covenant maker, Yahweh promises to do it all for us. He leads, guides, and blesses us, and all we need do is believe and follow. And when we do, He revives our soul, enlightens our eyes, and makes our hearts rejoice.

Intimacy, Fellowship. Communion. A life shared with those He created. These words barely begin to describe Yahweh and His desires for a relationship with us. He describes Himself as I am, our present-tense God.

Our God works to recreate us spiritually, offering us what we need most: a new heart and a new spirit. Creating the heavens was handiwork for Him, but He had to roll up His sleeves and bare His arm to secure our salvation.

Our Creator is infinite, beautiful, and mysterious. While we might see Him as distant and uninterested, the very opposite is true. He is always active on our behalf, inviting us to draw ever closer and know Him more.