God has many brilliant and breath-taking attributes, when I take a step back and look as it were from a distance, as a spectator would observe an actor acting out his role. I am so overwhelmed by such a profusion of luminosity that I get lost in translation. It is almost impossible to dismember God’s immeasurable characteristics and look at them independently. He is a light that is unapproachable to man, but how I am learning, through the spirit to discover who God is, even if only in tiny glimpses!
In considering God promises, they were never meant to be thrown away as waste paper; they must be use by the believer, God is glorified when we trade with them, they are not like money of the miser but God’s gold is minted to be traded with! We must embrace them as nothing please the Lord more than to see His pledges put into circulation. When we are told that He will never leave nor forsake us we must believe that with all our hearts and remind one another of this truth. Encouragement is a responsibility that we all have given by God, our God is no hireling but the great shepherd and He who has begun a good work will see it through unto the end. Our faith must be in Him and it is not with ourselves and our resolve to somehow conjure up some manmade faith equipping us to find strength to justify our acceptance in Him. No, we must rely on Him and the finish work of Calvary, and on that alone! Nothing else will get us home! Having said that we must we must also understand that not all will be crowned but only those who run the race according to the rules. (2Timothy 2:4) “No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.” How often I get caught up with the filth of life and all its snares, it ort not to be so! We must put off the old and put on the new, yes I often fail in my endeavours, but with God’s help this will change! My focus must shift from my inabilities to God’s promises. When God told Moses He would deliver His people from the bondage of slavery in Egypt and give them their own land, the Promised Land, was that conditional or a promise? You may say it was a promise and we understand that God cannot lie, but it was yet conditional as they all did not enter into the Promised Land. Well said! (Hebrews 3:19) “So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.”
They doubted God’s ability to get them to the Promised Land! They did not believe His promise! They moaned and rebelled being unthankful, for the provision that God had already given them. I believe this is what Paul was teaching us in the book of Romans when he makes reference to walking in the spirit. We must believe God and His promises, come what may! When I reason with an attitude that I may not make it, when He has promised to get me home, that is when I walk in unbelief. It is reliant upon His ability and His promise, not on my own man centred aptitude and will! This is why Paul endure hardship; (2Timothy 2:10) “Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.” We are therefore instructed to mimic Paul as much as he imitates Christ! We glorify God when we plead His promises, do you think He will be any less poorer for giving us the guarantee He has promised?
“He has said “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Faith lays hold upon the promise of pardon, and it does not delay, saying, “This is a precious promise, I wonder if it be true?” but it goes straight to the throne with it, and pleads, “Lord, here is the promise, ‘Do as thou hast said.’” Our Lord replies, “Be it unto thee even as thou wilt.” When a Christian grasps a promise, if he does not take it to God, he dishonours him; but when he hastens to the throne of grace, and cries, “Lord, I have nothing to recommend me but this, ‘Thou hast said it;’“then his desire shall be granted.” C.H.Spurgeon
Let us hold on to every word that comes forth from the mouth of God, let us run this race believing our God with total assurance, let us put off what hinders and lets us Glorify our Father as He is willing and able to get us home!
Signing off
Tyrone
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