Basic truth about God “Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand” (Isaiah 41:10). “The Lord is the one who goes ahead of you; He will be with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed” (Deuteronomy 31:8). “You need not fight in this battle; station yourselves, stand and see the salvation of the Lord on your behalf” (2 Chronicles 20:17). “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing” (John 15:5). I can do all things through Him who strengthens me (Philippians 4:13). You may feel lonely and abandoned. You may feel like you have more than you can bear. No. That is not true. It may seem that He has deserted you, but this is never, never, never true. It may seem that the road ahead is too dark, too steep, and too slick–you can’t make it. You don’t have to “make it.” He never intended that you should TRY to “make it.” He now lives in you and will face these scary, steep, slick, dark places for you! He tells us, “I want you to trust Me in your times of trouble so I can rescue you and you can give Me glory” (Ps. 50:15b). You are loved–more than you could have ever dreamed of being loved. “I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness” (Jeremiah 31:3). “May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high His love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it” (Ephesians 3:17-19 TLB). You are forgiven–totally–of past, present, and future sins. You stand in His presence, CLEAN! Tell yourself that emphatically! “When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross” (Colossians 2:13-14). “I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins” (Isaiah 43:25). You are a new person because of Jesus Christ and His death and resurrection. You died with Him and you were born again with Him–raised to walk as the new creation He has made you. “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come” (2 Corinthians 5:17). “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me” (Galatians 2:20). These are His basic truths for facing life. Ron Dunn gave this analogy. When a baby is born, he is equipped with everything he needs for facing his new world; he just has to learn to use all of his appendages. You don’t wait until he is ready to walk, take him to the doctor and say, “Screw his legs on–he’s ready to walk.” The Bible tells us that God has given us everything we need for living in our world–we must learn to use what HE has so graciously given us (2 Peter 1:3).
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 03:50:47 +0000
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