I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth…

This is the first line of the Apostles’ Creed, and it is the core of our faith.

We believe in an THE almighty God. We live in God, we move in God, and we have our being in God. (Acts 17:28) So, God has power, yet God is love. (1 John 4:8) With power so great that we cannot comprehend it, God chose to create us just so he could love us. There is SO much love in God.

In creating us out of love and destined for love, God he chose to limit his almightiness so that we could love him back. God’s almightiness is not thunderbolt-zapping almightiness. And it is not angry almightiness.  God’s greatest expression of His almightiness is his love for us. He calls to us at all times and through all spaces and in all things, yet the almighty God chooses at every moment to be almighty in patience and mercy as He waits on the threshold of our door for us to invite Him in.

The Almighty chose to give us breath, and of course that is almighty.

But He also chose to give us freedom so we have room to breath, and that is really almighty.

God is not distant from us and is not one who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses. (Heb. 4: 15)

God the Father almighty is Emmanu-el, “God-with-us,” “always, until the end of the age.”(Mt. 28:20)

            And Mary said:“My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior. For he has looked upon his handmaid’s lowliness…the Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name.”(Lk. 1:46-49)

When have you experienced God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth?

Or when has your soul proclaimed the greatness of the Lord for doing great things for you?