Exodus chapter 20 verse 3 says, Thou shalt have no other gods before me. There is some confusion and many questions about the fact that Bible-believing Christians believe that Jesus is God, and that the Father is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. But we believe in one God. This refers to the fact that the God of the Bible is a God of three persons, and the Bible refers to the three persons as the Godhead. This relationship of the three persons in the Godhead is described best in a verse of scripture that's been cut out and deleted from the corrupt new versions in 1 John 5, 7. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. And of course, Jesus is identified as the Word, referred to there in 1 John 5, 7, and is called God and described as our creator in one obvious place, John 1, 1-3. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him. and without him was not anything made that was made. Jesus is God and was with God and made everything that was ever made. right down to the subatomic particles, including those quarks that make up the protons and the neutrons and the electrons of each and every atom. But Jesus also refers to God the Father, not only as His Father, but calls Him my God. John 20, verse 17, we read, Jesus saith unto her, touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my father, but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my father and your father and to my God and your God. And of course, on the cross, we read in Mark 15, 34, Jesus said, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why would Jesus refer to God the Father as my God, if he is in fact God himself? because both are true. Jesus is God. He is the second person of the three-person Godhead, and those three persons of the Godhead operate in what we might call a hierarchy, in which Jesus describes God the Father in John 14, 28, which ends with Jesus saying, My Father is greater than I. So Jesus is God, but second to the Father in the Godhead hierarchy. He isn't less God or lesser than the Father in his nature or substance, but the Father is simply greater in the order of that hierarchy in the Godhead. Now, there are many other questions to answer and very interesting aspects that we can discuss about the Godhead, but this is referred to as the Trinity. And those who reject the biblical truth of the Trinity have a really difficult time with the Bible. But those who embrace the biblical truth of the Trinity understand what is meant when the Ten Commandments tells us, thou shalt have no other gods before me. When we pray to the Father, worship the Father, sing about the Father, we're not putting some other God before Jesus, who is God. Jesus explains in John 10.30, I and my Father are one. They're not the same person. That's why he doesn't say I and my Father are the same. But they are one God in three persons with the Spirit. You may need to listen to this devotional more than once, look up the scriptures, and even memorize some of these scriptures and others like it. But the important thing is that we understand that God is God. So He's beyond our grasp. If your God is so easily understood and His whole being and everything you believe about Him is within your mental grasp, you have a man-made false God. The true God who made all things, the Bible says He is above all things. He's beyond our full comprehension. But the Bible teaches the Trinity. The Bible tells us the one true God is in three persons, and that Godhead is the one true God. And yes, Jesus is God. As Bible believers, we simply believe the Bible.