“For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome.” (Deuteronomy 10:17 – NKJV)
You may have heard of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Acts 3:13). You may also have heard of the God of David (Isaiah 38:5) or the God of Daniel (Daniel 6:26). I’m sure you’ve heard of the God of the Lord Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:17). Well now let me tell you about the God of Wayne. He’s the God of the Bible, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Daniel, and Jesus, and He’s the absolute greatest God imaginable. Literally if you were to sit down at a drawing board and in your imagination tried to come up with the absolute greatest god imaginable, my God is the God you would come up with. I call Him the God of the biggest, the best, and the most!
Let me tell you about Him.
First of all, at a personal level the God of the Bible truly is the absolute greatest being you can imagine.
The Bible teaches that He is eternal, without any beginning or end (Psalms 90:2). In terms of life span, you cannot get any better than this.
It also teaches that He can create whole worlds, including our infinite universe, simply by speaking (Psalm 33:6) and that He can also destroy them (2 Peter 3:10). Think about this for a moment. The most power people have is the power to build great cities and nations and the power to destroy life on the planet. To do this we have to use a lot of hard work and technology. God however can do infinitely more than this and He can do it just by speaking. Truly He possesses the greatest amount of power imaginable.
The Bible also teaches that He is love (1 John 4:8). Love is universally recognised as the greatest thing in life. God is not simply a loving God, He is love. He is the living expression of life’s greatest thing, love. Truly you cannot be any greater than this.
The Bible also teaches that God is a God of truth who cannot lie (Psalm 31:5, Titus 1:2). It also teaches that He knows everything, that He cannot commit evil, and that He is perfect, righteous and holy (Psalm 147:5, James 1:13, Matthew 5: 48, 2 Chronicles 12:6, Psalm 99:9). Truly these are the characteristics of the greatest being imaginable.
This is what I call a God who is the biggest, the best, and the most, the absolute greatest God imaginable.
Second, in terms of His works, truly when the God of the Bible does things, He does things in the greatest way possible, particularly in terms of eternity, literally the biggest, the best, and the most.
For example, when He created the world, He created it good (Genesis 1:31). This word “good” in the Bible doesn’t mean better than bad but not as good as great. It has a much deeper meaning than that. Its meanings include excellent, upright, honourable, pleasant, and moral. Truly when God created a world for us to live in, He created a good world, one that was excellent including one that was very, very beautiful, literally a paradise. Of course the earth today is far from a paradise, but according to the Bible it is not because of the way God created it but rather it is because of us human beings. We human beings are sinners and because of this God has cursed the earth so that it now causes us hardship (Genesis 3:17-19). Also because we are sinners we ourselves are destroying the planet in variety of ways. However this is not how God originally created it, He created it to be good, in fact literally to be a paradise.
Also, when He created us human beings He created us to exist in the greatest state possible, which is the state of existing in His own image (Genesis 1:27). Truly a created being cannot exist in a greater state than to exist in the very image of the God of the Bible, the greatest God imaginable, literally a God who is love. The fullness of what this means we will not know until eternity, but one thing for sure is it means that we are to be like Him (Genesis 1:26, 1 John 3:2), which at the very least this means we are to be people with the character of God, people who are perfect, righteous, holy, and loving. In the world today we human beings are far from measuring up to this image, but that again is because we are sinners which means we are a people who fall short of His glory (Romans 3:23) and don’t live according to His ways, the essence of which is to love others as ourselves (Romans 13:8-10). However this is not how God originally created us, He created us to literally be like Himself.
This is what I call a God who is the biggest, the best, and the most, the absolute greatest God imaginable.
Third, in terms of His desire for mankind, He truly wants the biggest, the best, and the most for us.
For example, the kind of life He wants us to have is an abundant life (John 10:10). Among the meanings for the Greek word “perissos” that is translated “more abundantly” in John 10:10 is the following:
Over and above
Exceeding abundantly
Supremely
Something further, more, much more than all
Superior
Extraordinary
Surpassing
Pre-eminence
Superiority
More eminent
More remarkable
More excellent
This is the kind of life God desires for all of us and it is truly the biggest, the best, and the most.
Also, the Kingdom He has planned for us to live in throughout eternity is the best it gets. According to the Bible God Himself will live with us in this Kingdom and we will be His children, friends, and servants. It will be a world that is full of love, joy, and peace, and it will have no suffering, death, or evil of any kind. It will even have tremendous luxury, complete with streets made of gold (Revelation 21:3-4,21). He even is planning on giving us each our own mansion in this Kingdom (John 14:2-3).
This is the heart of God for us, He is a God of the biggest, the best, and the most who wants us to have the biggest, the best, and the most.
This is what I call a God who is the absolute greatest God imaginable.
Lastly, as the God of the biggest, the best, the most, He also naturally desires the biggest, the best, and the most from us.
This means He wants us to live up to His image including being perfect, righteous, and holy (Matthew 5:48, 25:46, 1 Peter 1:16). It also means He wants to be a loving people. Specifically He wants us to love Himself wholeheartedly (Mark 12: 30). He also wants us to love Jesus more than our family including more than our spouse and children (Matthew 10:37, Luke 14:26). It also means He wants us to love our neighbours as ourselves (Mark 12:31). It even means He wants us to love our enemies (Matthew 5:44). This is a high call, the highest of calls, and it is the standard that the God of the Bible calls us to live our lives at, literally the biggest, the best, and the most.
All of this is what I call a God who is the biggest, the best, and the most, the absolute greatest God imaginable.
To my judgement it is truly impossible to imagine a greater God.
If this God is not your God, the only thing I have to say to you is this: My God is better than your god!