"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."~Jeremiah 29:11
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."~Isaiah 55:8-9 versus "The heart is deceitful above all things,and desperately wicked: who can know it ?"
"And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation."~Exodus 34:6-7
"He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."~1 John 4:8
From the Scriptures above,I can make the following conclusions;
-We are in God's thoughts-that's how special each one of us is.
-God's thoughts concerning us are only of peace
When we compare our thoughts and hearts they are wicked;but not so with God-because God is holy and is love.So,God doesn't ever do anything out of hate,envy or vengence.
We also learn that God is merciful,gracious,longsuffering,abundant in goodness AND truth.
Lastly,God is love and because of love,He sent Jesus to die for us (John 3:16)
1 Corinthians 13 goes on to say:
"4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
If we are to replace "God" in the place of love,we learn:
God suffers long and is kind;God does not envy;love does not parade itself,is not puffed up.God does not behave rudely,God does not seek his own-always seek thst which will benefit us,God thinks no evil and so on...
When we truly understand who God is,when we understand that God only seeks the best for us,then we'd stop asking, "why me Lord?".Manier times we question God's love when life isn't as rosy,when we're not where we thought we'd be in the next few years,when we're trying so hard but we're still facing trials.We often wonder where God is,when we're rejected,hated,hurt.But do we ever take time to think of Jesus?
Christ was despised,rejected,a man of sorrows,acquainted with grief,oppressed,bruised,wounded.He had to bear everyone's sin.Imagine.I mean one sin is so much burdensome,yet he carried everyones-even of those who'd reject His love and salvation.Yet "He opened not His mouth".We will never suffer like he did.
I pray that we reach a point where we'd appreciate God's love and understand nothing that He witholds or allows us to face is actuated by hate,for he cannot hate.But is all for our good.Ponder on the passage below:
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."~Isaiah 55:8-9 versus "The heart is deceitful above all things,and desperately wicked: who can know it ?"
"And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation."~Exodus 34:6-7
"He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."~1 John 4:8
From the Scriptures above,I can make the following conclusions;
-We are in God's thoughts-that's how special each one of us is.
-God's thoughts concerning us are only of peace
When we compare our thoughts and hearts they are wicked;but not so with God-because God is holy and is love.So,God doesn't ever do anything out of hate,envy or vengence.
We also learn that God is merciful,gracious,longsuffering,abundant in goodness AND truth.
Lastly,God is love and because of love,He sent Jesus to die for us (John 3:16)
1 Corinthians 13 goes on to say:
"4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
If we are to replace "God" in the place of love,we learn:
God suffers long and is kind;God does not envy;love does not parade itself,is not puffed up.God does not behave rudely,God does not seek his own-always seek thst which will benefit us,God thinks no evil and so on...
When we truly understand who God is,when we understand that God only seeks the best for us,then we'd stop asking, "why me Lord?".Manier times we question God's love when life isn't as rosy,when we're not where we thought we'd be in the next few years,when we're trying so hard but we're still facing trials.We often wonder where God is,when we're rejected,hated,hurt.But do we ever take time to think of Jesus?
"3 He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken."~Isaiah 58:3-8
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken."~Isaiah 58:3-8
Christ was despised,rejected,a man of sorrows,acquainted with grief,oppressed,bruised,wounded.He had to bear everyone's sin.Imagine.I mean one sin is so much burdensome,yet he carried everyones-even of those who'd reject His love and salvation.Yet "He opened not His mouth".We will never suffer like he did.
I pray that we reach a point where we'd appreciate God's love and understand nothing that He witholds or allows us to face is actuated by hate,for he cannot hate.But is all for our good.Ponder on the passage below:
"35 Who
shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or
distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."~Romans 8:35-39
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."~Romans 8:35-39
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