Who is God? All Hail the power... (part 11)

And Jesus tells me to follow God, follow and listen to His voice. Every other god is false, just as the hired man in the parable of the shepherd calling his sheep. (John 10: 9-10) No one knows me like God. No one can touch me like God. God knows all, is above all, and is within the church and above it, waiting for me to come to Him as part of Christ’s bride. (Ps 46:1-5). Is this why Jesus came? Didn’t He come to earth to be a warrior, a rider on a white horse to swoop down and save His people? According to Ezekiel 34:23-31, “And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them, I the LORD have spoken it. And I will make a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease, out of the land:  and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods; And I will make them and the place round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them. And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid. And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of heathen any more. Thus they shall know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the LORD God. And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the LORD God.” That doesn’t sound like a warrior, but someone who will be peace-loving and kind and nurturing. He came so that there would be no more hatred and there will be no more pain. Jesus showed us the way there. Further in Ezekiel, in chapter 47 verses 11and 12, there is a description of a river that heals and quenches every thirst and takes evil, turning it to dross, so that only good survives. This is mindful of John 4, in which Christ talks to the woman at the well about the fountain that provides water and those that drink of it shall never die. In Him His bride shall never die. This also doesn’t sound like a warrior. No He came in peace. And He came for unity, as Micah 5:2-15. He came so that I and the person sitting next to me at church, or even in the next line at the checkout counter, those that are my neighbors, those I work with, He came for all of us, so that we may focus on God, and doing His will, not what pleases us or uplifts us or puts us on a high. He is powerful in the respect that He can stay the sea, and wither the fig. But He wishes us to be reunited and conjoined to Him in peace and joy and He promises to look after us with that joy and with singing. (Zephaniah 3:9-20)