GOD’S GREAT LOVE AND THOUGHTS FOR US!

EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

THURSDAY DECEMBER 5, 2019.

SUBJECT: GOD’S GREAT LOVE AND THOUGHTS FOR US!

Memory verse: "Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done; and Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered." (Psalm 40 vs 5.)

READ: Jeremiah 29 vs 11 - 14:

29:11: For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

29:12: Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

29:13: And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

29:14: I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away.

INTIMATION:

God is love, and loves us greatly. He so loved us that He gave His only Son, Jesus Christ, to the world as a propitiation for our sins. Jesus came, took the form of man, suffered all things, and died the death we ought to have died for our sins. What an awesome sacrifice—one given His life for another; Jesus exchanging His perfect life of immeasurable value with our lives that are completely worthless—our sinful lives! The apostle Paul, in Romans 8 vs 32 and 35, clearly asks rhetorically; “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 can separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril or sword?...”

The apostle Paul assuredly answered the questions, saying; “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8 vs 37 - 39).

Therefore, if God gave His only begotten Son for you, He isn’t going to hold back anything that you require to live for Him. If Christ gave His life for you, He isn’t going to turn around to condemn or abandon you. Neither a strange land, sorrow, persecution, nor physical problems can break our fellowship with God. Now with God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our sinful and worthless condition and exposing Himself to the worst by sending His own Son, is there anything else He wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? There is no way!

God’s plans and purposes for His creation are good and full of hope. As long as God, who knows the future, and the end from the beginning, provides our agenda and goes with us as we fulfill His mission, we can have boundless hope. This does not mean that we will be spared pain, suffering or hardship, but that God will see us through to a glorious conclusion. We are encouraged by a leader who stirs us to move ahead, someone who believes we can do the task he has given and who will be with us all the way. God is that kind of leader. 

God, the Creator, is sovereign and in control, while at the same time He is close and personal to us His creation. But He is not trapped in His creation—He is transcendent. The world is God’s and all its fullness, and according to His wise plan, His people were to have a future and a hope; consequently, they could call upon Him in confidence. We, His children, need not despair because we have His presence, the privilege of prayer, and His grace. If we seek Him wholeheartedly, He will be found. 

God’s promises are public, and their fulfillment are sure. So why do we ever doubt Him? We never have to be uncertain when we have a God of truth and righteousness. In times of dire circumstances, it may appear as though God has forgotten you. But God may be preparing you for a new beginning with Him at the center.

Prayer: Abba Father, Your love for me is unparalleled. I cannot thank You enough for all You have done for me. O Lord, I know Your good thoughts for me, help me to offer myself as a living sacrifice to You, obeying You in all things, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!