| | This would be my thoughts in the last little while as I have been greatly annoyed by what I see going on in the world around us. What does it mean to trust in God and why. Well in order to be able to trust him I believe that we need to start with his sovereignty.
God is good, he is totally in control of every situation. Not only does he know the future he has also planned it out to the last, so as to get the most glory for himself (Rom9:14-21)And to display his attributes of love and mercy he has chosen to save sinners. Not for anything that they themselves did, but so that his glory could be revealed to the world by saving those who would have nothing to do with him, for his glory.
Rom 9:22 But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?
Rom 9:23 And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory —
Rom 9:24 even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
Are we going to be worried then about what the future may hold? Is God in control or is he not. Do you not believe that God works all things together for the sake of those who believe(rom8:28) or do you think that God is sitting by hoping that man will not wreck what he has started. No! he will complete the good work he has started in us. Not because we are so good but because he is so faithful and he will not loose any of those who the father has given him (John10:17) why then do we worry about the future if God is totally in control of all that happens, and he is orchestrating everything for our good and his glory, what is there to fear? It is not as if he hasn’t made it clear that those who desire to live for him will suffer (2tim3:12) he has told us that not only is it likely to happen but that it will. As those who do the things that Christ commands, out of love for the savior will suffer persecution. And what a glorious thing it is to be counted worthy to suffer for the name of Jesus Christ! He is the image of the invisible God the one in whom is no turning or change. When will we learn to trust that he will be doing the best thing for us even when it is the hardest thing we have ever had to endure.
What a merciful savior, what a joy is ours. When he returns in the sky we will rejoice with joy inexpressible. Because the one who has purchased us with a price has returned to draw us all to himself.
Be of good cheer then when trials come knowing that the trials will produce endurance and we will be able to persevere. When hard times come you will be able to stand fast having the knowledge that he who died in your place has your best interests in mind. And is only allowing things to happen to you because he knows it is ultimately for your good.
How depressing it would be when the hard times come ( and they will) you, having all these years though that God was there to keep you from pain and suffering, does not relive that pain, and does not stop death, war, hunger, what then has he been unfaithful? Or perhaps he was unable to stop these things from coming to pass. Maybe his power was diminished for a season. What then? Could a God like this even keep you from hell? I would think not. For if he is not even able to keep his child from falling how is then able to save them from the pit of hell……
But that is not our God. The God of reality is so much more that even through the trials he is able to use even these for our good. Knowing that we are only human however he will not give us more than what we can bear. This is what it means to trust, that even through pain and suffering and trials beyond imagination God will remain faithful and he will give you the strength to endure.
This is what true trust is……because the hard times will come. So learn to trust him before they come so that you will be an effective witness for him when they do.
"This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world." John Piper
"Since God is the highest good, He would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil." Augustine
Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,
Rom 8:29 because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
Rom 8:30 And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.
Rom 8:31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Rom 8:32 Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?
Rom 8:33 Who will bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
Rom 8:34 Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.
Rom 8:35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
Rom 8:36 As it is written, "For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered."
Rom 8:37 No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!
Rom 8:38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,
Rom 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
"All our infirmities, whatever they are, are just opportunities for God to display His gracious work in us." CH SpurgeonThis is totally unrelated but good......LifeImagine the potential
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