Comments from God

Comments by God

Young men and women always like to be called as beautiful or handsome or a good person or something else, and so they do whatever they can to get a good impression in schools, colleges or even working places. As Bible is of the opinion that God looks into the hearts of the people than the physical appearance of the people and on that basis He comments about his creations. Unsurprisingly, it is amazing to say that God comments. Hence, YAHWEH not only created everything in and around the world but also commented about His creation. Without forgetting we have to put into consideration that it is God who introduced Himself as ‘I am who I am’ which describes eternal power, unchanging character and absolute over everything. Here are the few examples in the Bible where God commented about His creation.

Creation: In Gen. 1:31; “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good”. It is the first time in the bible where God commented about His creation. In the creation account God created everything by His Word, but He created man in a unique way and so when He looked at His creations and saw, He commented ‘it is very good’.     

Noah: When looked into further chapters of the Genesis it can seen in the time of Noah where God again comments about His creation, in Gen 6: 7-8, it is read that He was grieved by seeing the evil of the world. But that verse didn’t end there, it further says that but Noah found favor in the eye of God. When we see the history of Noah, there was a reason for him to find favor in the eye of God, which is mention in Gen. 6:9 “Noah was righteous, blameless among the people of his time and he walked with God”. The negative aspect of the comment is the about the people in the time of Noah, because of whom God was grieved.     

Abraham: When comes to Gen. 15:6, Abraham was credited as the righteous by seeing his faith by God. The history of Abraham shows that Abraham was the first person who can be called as a first Jew who can be understood as a person who just obeyed God without having a second thought. His faith was further mentioned as an example in NT by Paul and other authors of NT.      

David: When looked into the history of King David, he was commented as the man after God’s own heart, there is a peculiarity about King David, and he was commented before he became the king of Israel that means at his young age itself he was commented by God. When looked at the history of David he was the person who obeyed God in every circumstance.    

Job: When it comes to the life of Job, he was commented as, “there is no one like him in the earth, upright, man who fear God and shuns evil” (Job 1:8). When looked into the life of Job, he is recognized as the man of suffering, even in his suffering he did not deny God but instead left everything to the will of the God. 

John: And when looked into NT, it was John was called as the beloved disciple of Jesus. He was the disciple who was very close to the Jesus. It is said that it was John whom Jesus gave his mother to be his mother at the time of his death on cross.

Conclusion  

            There are many examples in the bible about God commenting his creation. In these above people the commonality is that they were righteous even though many of them failed in many of their situation or circumstances of their life, like King David in the episode of Bathsheba or Abraham who doubted God in the episode sleeping with Hagar. What is the comment of God about us? We are also like the Noah, Abraham, David, Job and John, called separated for His purpose, what is his comment about us? It is easy to fool man but we cannot fool God, we can show something outside and have something else inside. These people were righteous even when they had weakness and even failures in their life but they were able to rectify their failures and even certain level of their weakness. Jacob Isaac, urban youth worker says, “Life is not what you are not but what you are and God uses what you are.” When comes to the serving God or obeying His commandments human weaknesses or failures does not come into consideration because our God is above all the weaknesses and failures. What is God’s comment about you by looking your life?