KNOWING GOD AS ELOHIM

Elohim is an ancient Hebrew name that can be first found in Genesis chapter 1. Over the years I’ve come to know God more and more as Elohim or rather its translation as “Creator or Creator God”.

Knowing God as Elohim requires a journey that goes deep beyond common realms of understanding.

Knowing Him as Creator stretches far beyond thanking Him for creating that which brings us pleasure and great delight and on to desiring to experience what He has created from His pleasure and His delight.

As I’ve been journeying to intimately know God as Elohim or Creator God I have both intentionally and unintentionally shifted my mindset on many of the things that I had looked with displeasure upon.

Knowing God as Creator has challenged my thought patterns in such a way that I had to sit with this very thought…

If Genesis 1:31 AMP says “Elohim saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good and He validated it completely” how could I and where did I get the authority to look upon a thing as any less than very good, validated and complete?

Nowhere in scripture do we see God undoing and redoing something that He created which allows me to conclude that when Elohim looked upon all that He created and saw that it was very good, validated, and complete He already knew in what ways it would or could be interpreted and received as displeasing.

You see, knowing Elohim as Creator cannot be as effective without understanding that He is the Creator of both good and evil. He does not do, commit, or condone evil without sovereignty however it is indeed His creation.

How much easier could life be if we intentionally desired to know and appreciate God’s creative reason? Not that they must make sense to our fallible minds or even be pleasing in any manner.

Let’s take the infamous serpent for the sake of topical understanding. The serpent was created by Elohim with the intention of being characteristically deceptive, cunning, crafty, clever, etc. If by comparison, we examine the lion, which was created by Elohim with the intentions of being characteristically strong, highly territorial, ferocious, and aggressive, etc. how then do we accept Elohim’s reason for one creation versus another?

Truly knowing Elohim as Creator has a responsibility to remove every partition set and established to separate His divine truth.

Another perspective I’d like to consider is how easily we can view God as the Creator of the things that bring us good pleasure and glad tidings.

Let’s examine Ecclesiastes‬ ‭7‬:‭14‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬ which says “In the day of prosperity be happy, But in the day of adversity consider— God has made the one as well as the other So that man will not discover anything that will be after him.“

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We not only easily but readily praise God for what seems to be good to us, but if what God creates with us in mind was declared very good after its creation when then do we begin to praise God for being the Creator of ALL THINGS!?

Surely we find it almost impossible to think that God would “create” hardship, adversities, affliction, and like and bear goodness in mind. Consider this, God created circumstance which in essence is anything that you as an individual cannot control which in turn creates hardship, adversity, etc. but in this very moment we could and should appreciate that when God created “circumstance” and “situation” He absolutely DID have you with goodness in mind! Hallelujah.

This week, I challenge you to reverence God as Creator in ways that you normally would not. Begin to take account of what that sounds like. The moment we release God from the prisons of our minds and realize that He’s too BIG, too WIDE, too MIGHTY, and too POWERFUL to reside there we can begin to then experience Heaven on earth as God intended.

Until next read

waiting well,

Apostle Natasha 💜