Understanding God: God of Self-Appraisal

Understanding God: God of Self-Appraisal

by | Aug 12, 2025 | Archives, God

Understanding God: Self-Appraisal And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. – Genesis 1:4 As we continue to explore the personality…

Understanding God: Self-Appraisal

And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. – Genesis 1:4

As we continue to explore the personality of God, one of His unique attributes that we are introduced to early in the Bible is self-appraisal. He is a God who appraises Himself and His works. This theme runs through the history of creation as documented in Genesis chapter 1. We see excerpts such as “And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good…” (vs. 10); “And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good…” (vs. 12); “So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good…” (vs. 21).

Now, God was not reporting to anybody, and He did not need to impress anyone in His creation. But because He has such high standards, He took time to evaluate every single one of His works and did not just wave them on. This shows His meticulous nature. He is attentive to detail and does not leave anything to chance. Rather He checks that everything is as He envisioned it to be.

This practice did not just ensure that God came up with a masterpiece in His output, it also helped Him to see the potential for more in some of the things He had created. That was why He could create light out of darkness (2-3); separated day and night from the light (vs. 5-6); created a firmament (Heaven) to separate the waters above and below (vs. 7-8); created the Earth by gathering the waters below the firmament to one side so that hard surface might emerge (vs. 9-10); made sea creatures from the water body below (vs. 21); and brought forth grass, herb, and fruit trees from the new hard surface He created (vs. 11-13). And this went on and on until He formed humans from the same ground.

This tells us that God is inventive and imaginative. He would not have been able to create anything if He wasn’t. He does not rest on His soars and does not bask in yesterday’s glory. He is a forward-thinking God who is always looking out for an opportunity to do more, make more and get more as the evolution of His creation aptly demonstrated to us.

The good news is that He created you just like Him, with the same mindset, capacities and power to think, function and operate like Him. The question is how are you making use of these endowments?

Jesus Loves You!

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Understanding God: He Checks Up

Understanding God: He Checks Up

by | Jun 16, 2025 | Archives, God

Understanding God: He Checks Up Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a…

Understanding God: He Checks Up

Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” – Genesis 11:1-7

The attribute of God we shall consider today is His situation inspection or assessment nature. In other words, He is a God who checks up on His creatures and does not just leave them or things to chance.

This attribute of God is particularly revealing because after the disobedience of Adam and Eve and the squalor that defined humanity afterwards, which led Him to decide that He had had enough and then proceeded to wipe out the human race with the flood, and when the new generations set of human race also reverted to nature and started going out of line, a development which made God concluded that He would not need to wipe out humanity again, one would think that with such a resolution God, who cannot condone evil, would have decided to stay away from humans. However, our reference today shows that that was not the case with Him. He still kept in touch and was always visiting the hemisphere where He had placed humans to assess them and their activities.

It was during one of His assessment rounds that He saw the latest endeavor humans were engaged in, a la the tower at Babel. If He had not checked up, such a development might have escaped His attention, and He might not have dealt with it on time the way He did.

Today, God still checks up on humanity to inspect, assess, monitor, evaluate, appraise, and profile the thoughts, deeds, actions, attitudes, behaviors, and works of His children so as to know how He may reward or retribute deserving individuals or groups as commensurate with their ways. The question is, when He checks up on you, what is He going to find you doing?

Selah!

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