sexta-feira, 5 de abril de 2019

THE NARROW PATH TO RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD - DAY 87

by Rev. Robert John Cericola, Carroll, OH - EUA

Day 87

What shall we say?

Romans 8:31–35 (NKJV) What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?   

In verse 31 Paul asks the question, “If God be for us who can be against us?” To help the reader understand the goodness of God, Paul, like a defense attorney, presents his case based upon how much God has done for us.

Surely since God has sacrificed Jesus, His own Son on our behalf will He not freely give us all things? The value of Jesus to Father God is measured in the love between them which is perfect. Their Father-Son relationship has always existed in perfect harmony because their attributes, their characteristic, their nature of love is the same. Thus, by giving His most precious and prized possession, His Son, Father has demonstrated there is nothing He will withhold from His redeemed children.

What is a house, what is a car, what is money or clothing or heath? Is there any material object beyond the Creators ability to bring into your life? No surely not! Well what about health? Will the Creator of all things, He Who formed Adam from dirt and Eve from Adam’s rib now withhold His healing touch from you or not provide the necessities of this life?  Surely not! His desire is to give you all things freely.

We thank God for all the material provisions He so freely provides, but let’s not get twisted into thinking the material provisions are God’s main purpose in sacrificing Jesus on our behalf. God’s greatest gift, beyond salvation through Jesus Christ, is the restoration of man’s love nature thereby enabling us to live in perfect harmony with Him.

2 Peter 1:3–4 (NKJV) as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

It is by knowing Him that we are able to engage His promises and become partakers of His divine nature.

Ending Thoughts
As you live your life on the Narrow Path, day by day, your relationship with Jesus and Father increases. Day by day, your love for Him activates and energizes your faith enabling you to believe His promises and partake of His divine nature. Stay on the Narrow Path great days of fellowship and blessings are surrounding you.      

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