The Unconditional Love of God!

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You serve a Loving Father!

I have often thought that if God could forgive my sins (past, present and future) and deal with sin completely on the cross once and for all, if  He could take this huge unbearable sin on Him, and gave me His life, then how hard is it for God to supply my needs which are so tiny in His eyes. After all He is my father and He owns everything in this world. So I can say that I have a rich Father and I don’t have to worry about my needs. I just thank Him in advance because He who knows my needs will come through for me. 

How about my needs other than financial? Could He who reconciled me back to Himself because of my inability to reconcile myself back to God, could He not take care of those issues in our lives that our concerning us. Remember He cares even for the smallest things that bother us because a loving Father always does. He is intimately acquainted with us and numbers even the the very hairs on my head (LK 12:7). 

Once I am so convinced of His love and goodness toward me and my inability to do anything by myself without Him, then its easy to have faith! Wouldn't a  little child who knows that his or her dad loves them so much and would never ever hurt them trust Him completely? So now faith is nothing so mystical or something we have to muster up, but just a response of knowing He is a loving Father who promised NEVER to leave us or NEVER to let the righteous be moved.  That is why I read the Word, not to get this mystical faith as many have said...but I read the word to really get to know how good and gracious He is and as I meditate on that....my heart out of responds in faith!

So why worry when we have a loving gracious rich Father who knows us intimately. He who promised is faithful and He is not a man who should change His words. None of us should ever think that its because of what we do (our obedience etc) that God decides to meet our needs..No, on the contrary its because of who He is and HE IS LOVE! 


IF we can accept that He is our savior by faith and immediately our debt gets wiped out (remember all by faith and trusting Him wholly to be our savior) then why is it so hard to accept the fact that He is also or provider. 


Think about the following verse for sometime: 

Romans 8:32 (Amplified Bible)

³²He who did not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all [other] things?

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Victory is a gift!

As surely as Christ was raised from the dead, so also we have been set free from Sin and alive in Him.

As true and real as Christ's death and resurrection was, so also IS our freedom from sin and life in Him.

Now the only problem is whether we believe it or not... satan (the father of lies) would love for us to not believe this truth..hence he will try his level best to deceive us by attempting to make us focus on our actions/perfomance and let that influence our belief....

The truth is what should influence us.

Romans 6:11 (English Standard Version)

¹¹So you also must consider yourselves^(A) dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.


Notice the word 'consider': in other words we need to see ourselves this way. We are to purposely focus on the truth even despite our failures . Why? Because truth will always be truth. It will never change. It is always constant. The only thing that is not constant is our actions. Our actions change once we change our what we believe.


Romans 12:2 (AMP) (italics - my addition)
"....but be transformed (changed on the outside) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude]..."


Lets be open to what Jesus has to say! Christ has changed us and freed us from sin. On the cross two things happened: Christ set us free from the penalty of sin. Guess what? We don't do anything, but we just accept this by faith, and immediately the burden of guilt is lifted off. Why? Because we realize that Jesus death was the eternal payment .


But not only did Christ set us free from the penalty of sin, he also set us free from the power/dominion/control of sin. When we accept this truth by faith... we see change on the outside. Immediately the control is broken on the outside. Remember the battle is in the head! Its all about what you and I believe!


Freedom on the outside happens when we understand and believe that we have already been set free. and now the only control sin can have over our lives is the control we give to it! 


Let me reiterate: if you believe that Christ's death and resurrection was real, then freedom from sin IS a reality. We are free!! Victory/Freedom is thus a gift received by faith. Its not something we earn or work hard to attain. So lets stop struggling for something we already have!


Know this truth and it will set u free!


Hope this blesses you.

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Coming up...

Why is it that we want to do good but end up doing bad ?? Do we really have a good nature and a bad nature??
All this and more in the upcoming article "Dual nature?"  


** (title is tentative and subject to change...content will defintiely remain the same..lol)

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