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1 | What is happening to me? | Heb 11:6 | Lenka | 99329 | ||
I am in trouble now. Sometimes it's difficult to believe that God wants to help me. It seems like he is punishing me. | ||||||
2 | What is happening to me? | Heb 11:6 | cloud | 99330 | ||
I don't know what you are going through, but you are a child of God and God is unfailingly faithful to His children. Numbers 23:19 points out that "God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and then not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?" He expects nothing less than faithfulness from His people, but he knows that mustering it up on our own strength is as hard as squeezing water out of a rock. The good news is that God empowers His children to be faithful through the filling of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit invites us to drink from His cup of faithfulness and taste the sweet juice of His fruit. Let's turn our attention toward the faithfulness of God's people. One chapter in scripture, above all others, extols God's faithful servants. Heb 11 cites many heroes in the "Hall of Faith" and clearly defines what faith is - "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see"(v.1). Every one of the faithful was honored by God for having believed what they could not see over what they could. Heb 11:5 tells of one man named Enoch who pleased God so much by his faith that God did not allow him to taste death, but took him away. Verse 6 says "and without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and the He rewards those who earnestly seek Him." Revelation 4:11 says, "for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created." God created us to bring Him pleasure; therefore, when we read that Enoch "was commended as one who pleased God," we realize that he fulfilled his calling. It seems Enoch so enraptured God that God raptured him! What was it about Enoch's life that pleased Him so vividly? Enoch walked with God (Gen 5:22) and that's what God calls each one of us to do. it certainly takes faith to wald with God, and Enoch did so for 300 years. Second Corinthians 5:7 says, "for we walk by faith, not by sight." Faith is an absolute necessity in the life that pleases God. If we are faithless, we are not fulfilling our calling to please Him. The moment the church was born, the Book of Acts referred to Christians as "believers" We were called believers long before we were called Christians. The term means "the faithful" or "those who believe God." If we refuse to keep believing God after salvation, He has no pleasure in us. Love for us? Yes. Pleasure in us? No. Pray this prayer, "My Father, you are worthy of all my faith and hope. I depend only on you because your faithfulness is perfect. I can have complete confidence in your character because your word tells me you are truthful and unchanging. Manifest your faithfulness within me, that i may walk with you and please you for all my life. How i love you, my Lord. Amen. |
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