Number One – 1
- One clearly represents unity, primacy, the first, the best, the only, it has no divisors, no factors, no components, it is universal, whole and complete.
- One is independent of all other numbers, is the source of all other numbers.
In this sense it represents
God as the beginning and the end, the prime impulse, the source of creation.
- One usually represents God, His sovereign rule, His omnipotence, His supremacy, His unique character.
- One excludes all differences for there is no second with which it can either harmonize or conflict.
- Thus One can also represent harmony, unity or peace but because of its reference to God it also means harmony, unity or peace with God.
- The first of the Ten Commandments is:
Thou
shalt have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:3
- Here in the first, of the ten great commandments of the Old Testament, we are told to put God first.
Jesus said that the first and greatest of the commandments was to love God.
37Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38This is the first and great commandment.
Matthew 22:37-38
- Thus in both the Old Testament and the New, we are commanded to place God in the number one position in our lives.
- In the two testaments we have one unity of message and purpose. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said:
But seek ye
first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be
added unto you.
Matthew 6:33
- Here we see that all the things we need and many of the things we want (that are good for us) will follow from the first and greatest principle.
- Put God first, obey and good
things will follow. This was also a promise in the Old Testament.
