Contemplative Bible Reading

Isaiah 45:18 (New Living Translation)

18 For the Lord is God,
and he created the heavens and earth
and put everything in place.
He made the world to be lived in,
not to be a place of empty chaos.
“I am the Lord,” he says,
“and there is no other.

Here is the description or definition of Jehovah God (my phrase). This English translation uses the convention of putting “lord” in capital letters in a smaller font to highlight it. This translates in various ways to various English words. I like to use the English name Jehovah (I think that is an English name, maybe not).

Jehovah is God (with a capital G). Jehovah is the creator. Sometimes in these blog posts I refer to God as the Creator God or the Creator. Jehovah created the world for mankind to live. There is no other like Jehovah God the Creator.

This is pretty simple. At least I can hold this idea in my simple mind. Somehow on some days some of us turn this into something so complicated we confuse and confound and scare people. Let’s try to keep it simpler.