Since GOD so loved the world (John 3:16) this image shows why GOD the SON came to earth and then died on the cross for mankind’s sin.
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Ever wondered why?
GOD is love
3/ 16
Today is 3/16. the most famous 3/16 is John 3:16 For GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS only begotten SON that whosoever believes in HIM will not perish but have eternal live.
another fine 3/16 is 1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of GOD, because HE (JESUS) laid down HIS life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
So if you hear HIS voice today, do not harden your heart (don’t be stubborn) Hebrews 3:7-8. Listen and receive JESUS as your Savior.
The LORD has seemed so near throughout our 6 week study “To know and Pray GOD’s nature” and now going into the conclusion-“Being made in GOD’s image and walking in the SPIRIT”, the LORD is richly opening the Word. I think our triune GOD is pleased that we are considering HE HIMSELF.
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Sharon L Manning #John316
HIS Purpose
Immutable is a big word we seldom use that means unchanging. Sometimes the word immutable is used by preachers to speak of GOD. In connection with GOD, immutable does NOT mean that GOD is rigid for HE is far from that. GOD’s unchangeableness speaks of HIS faithfulness to HIS own nature/character and purposes. For instance, the LORD cannot get better for HE is already the best. HE cannot lie for HE is the truth. HE cannot learn anything for HE knows all things.
When the bible speaks about GOD never changing it tells us that we can rely on HIM to do what HE says HE will do. HIS promises speak of HIS eternal purposes. All of GOD’s ways spring from HIS character and purposes.
One of GOD’s ways is to hate sin and to punish it, while HE loves it when people do right, and HE will reward that.
“With the pure, YOU (GOD) show YOURSELF pure. With the sinful YOU show YOURSELF to be against them” (Psalm 18:26 NLV).
Christians face discipline when they do wrong (1 Corinthians 11:31-32, Hebrews 12:4-7, 10-11) just as the Jews have and do to this day.
Malachi 3:6 “For I am the LORD, I do not change. Therefore, you are not consumed O sons of Jacob.”
The context is the Jews have sinned, but since GOD made a promise HE does not wipe them out. For HE always keeps HIS word. Instead, the LORD in HIS longsuffering disciplines them until they change their attitude and actions, just like HE does with a Christian.
A few Jews are accepting JESUS now and are saved. But for the most part the Jews are blinded and will not come to believe in JESUS until the end of the 7-year Tribulation (Zechariah 13:8-9, 12:10, Daniel 9:24, and Hebrews 8:7-12). Daniel 9:25-26 shows that the Messiah (JESUS CHRIST) must be cut off/ die and other things happen before the Jews come to believe in HIM. The text in Hebrews 8:7-12 was written in future tense (something yet to occur) several years AFTER JESUS died, was resurrected and went to heaven. Both are yet future and Romans 11:25-27 states clearly that the Jews have been blinded but every one of those Jews (the 1/3 which are purified Zechariah 13:8-9) who are still alive at the end of the Tribulation will come to believe when they see JESUS at HIS return at the end of the 7-year tribulation.
But you may wonder at the few times the Bible says, GOD repented/ was sorry that HE did something (Genesis 6:5-6). What is that talking about? It means that for GOD to be faithful to HIS nature and purposes/ for HIM to act in character which is to punish sin and reward doing right, certain things had to be done. (see Ezekiel 33:17-20).
When GOD made mankind in HIS image HE gave us the ability to choose. GOD does not change that and even though HE does not like many of our choices, HE does not make us robots that must obey HIM.
GOD does not take back our ability to choose. Yet the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY is Sovereign for HE always sets the stage (determines the times and places with specific intent -Acts 17:26-27) and has complete foreknowledge of what we will do ( Acts 2:23, 1 Peter 1:2). We in turn determine how to act in those times and places.
Now it is written that GOD is love (1 John 4:7) and that GOD so loved the world that HE gave HIS only SON (JESUS) that whoever would believe in JESUS would have eternal life (John 3:16). Then John 3:36 says, He who believes in the SON has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the SON shall not see life, but the wrath of GOD (continues) to abide on him.
You see GOD is love (1 John 4:7) and in HIS love HE sent HIS SON JESUS to offer forgiveness and life (John 3:16). But GOD’s love is in HIS SON (JESUS) (Romans 8:39). If you receive the SON you receive GOD’s love and the forgiveness JESUS earned for us on the cross. But if you reject the SON you reject GOD’s love, and your sins remain on you and must be punished for the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).
Sinclair Lewis said that GOD’s throwing those who reject JESUS into the lake of fire was GOD’s last act of respect/ for HE ratifies their rejection of HIM.
In other words, GOD honors the unbelievers right to choose. GOD acts at that time according to HIS nature to rejects those who already have rejected HIM.
As it is written: “For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you” (Matthew 7:2).
Eternal life means being with GOD (John 17:3) and they want no part of GOD. Therefore, GOD turns them over and gives them what they have chosen (Revelation 20:10, 15).
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Sharon
A heads up
Love does what it can to protect those they love. Sometimes children cannot understand our actions and often view our warnings as silly or mean. That is even more true when we consider the warnings and choices of GOD, whose ways and thoughts are vastly higher and greater than ours (Isaiah 55:8-9).
GOD did not make puppets, HE made man in HIS image and gave him the ability to choose. GOD did not make evil but choosing against GOD is harmful, and it is where evil came from back in the garden of Eden. Even though GOD warned him/ gave him a heads up, Adam’s choice to rebel against wisdom brought death and struggles to all people who ever lived as well as all creation (Romans 8:19-22).
Something I recognized the day when my 14-year-old grandson Ronnie died, GOD reminded me of again today as I prayed and cried for all that is happening around the world. On that day, I wept for his last days were so difficult as he struggled with liver cancer. Yet, looking back I see they were needed to do the work Ronnie was commissioned to do and will be rewarded for.
Throughout that day in hospice, questions bombarded my mind and I silently dialogued with GOD. In HIS grace HE reminded me of verses preparing me for what HE’d arranged for me to do (Ephesians 2:10). For during that day GOD engineered opportunities for me to share the saving Gospel of JESUS CHRIST with 2 seekers who had come to see Ronnie. One was a 69-year-old man, the other was a 15-year-old friend of Ronnie’s. Looking at Ronnie in his last hours made them consider themselves and wondered if they were ready to meet their MAKER.
Also, that day I watched as extended family members saw each other with Ronnie, walls were broken down and relationships were healed within the family.
Though all things definitely are not good, it is beyond impressive to know that GOD uses all things together for an end result of good to those who love HIM (Romans 8:28).
In HIS astounding foreknowledge, GOD preset the exact times and places so that people would reach out to HIM (Acts 17:26-27). That is simply mindboggling when you consider the amount of people worldwide and that each constantly are making choices. GOD’s infinitude is unfathomable.
So how does that speak to our crazy world that has seemed to go mad?
As JESUS told us in Matthew 24:8 these signs increasing nature upheavals, storms, earthquakes, food shortages, men’s choices of violence, lawlessness, and greed, creating wars and rumors of wars are just the beginning of sorrows (pre-birth pains that increase in intensity until a baby is born).
GOD in wisdom designed pre-birth pains to prepare a woman’s body to give birth. The LORD is in control of nature, but also, HE allows men choices and GOD is using what we now see to cause people see their need of a Savior and call on the name of the LORD JESUS and be saved from GOD’s wrath on sin. We call it the 7 year Tribulation. Which will also save them from an eternity in the everlasting lake of fire (Revelation 20:10, 15).
So in CHRIST’s stead I plead with you be reconciled to GOD, for HE does not delight in the death of the wicked but that they turn (Ezekiel 18:23, 32, 33:11) and come to JESUS to obtain eternal life (John 3:16, Romans 10:9-10, 13) For HE does not want any to perish but that all should come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9).
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Sharon
How to escape
Some think that the GOD of the Old Testament changed and is different than the GOD of the New Testament. BUT GOD does not change. James 1:17 tells us, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the FATHER of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” Over and over we see that the GOD of the Old Testament is the same as the GOD of the New Testament. A prime example of this is found in 2 Chronicles 33:12-13 check it out.
Job 33:24 “GOD is gracious…to deliver man from going down to the pit (HE says) I have found a RANSOM.”
Due to details given in the book of Job many believe the man Job was a contemporary of Abraham. Therefore, the book of Job precedes Genesis by over 500 years. How could GOD have found a RANSOM at that time to keep men from the pit (hell)? Is not JESUS the only way?
JESUS declared, “I am the way, the truth and the life, no man comes to the FATHER but by ME” (John 14:6).
What ransom did GOD find?
Hebrews 9:22 “and almost all things by the law are purged (cleansed) by blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission (forgiveness of sin).
Hebrews 10:4 “For it is not possible that the blood of bull and of goats should take away sins.”
John 1:29 “the next day John (the Baptist) saw JESUS coming to him and said, ‘Behold the LAMB of GOD who takes away the sin of the world.”
Revelation 13:8 “…the book of life of the LAMB slain from the foundation of the world.”
GOD who knows all things past, present, and future, knew before Creation that people would sin, and a Savior would be needed for the LORD GOD to have an eternal people of HIS own. JESUS’ sacrifice was pre-determined, agreed on, and accepted by the GODHEAD before the Creation of the world. JESUS taking on the form of man, living, dying for our sins and being raised again for our justification was not a provision added to GOD’s original plan and purpose, but the very plan A itself. GOD’s plan was not Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, but JESUS in the garden (John 18:1-3).
Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, that GOD who cannot lie, promised before the world began but in due time manifested HIS Word through preaching (the plan was in place and promised but not explained until JESUS).
JESUS was the RANSOM GOD found in Job 33:24.
I love the clarity of the explanation of how a person obtained that RANSOM in the Old Testament given in Job.
Job 33:14 “Why do you strive against GOD for HE gives not an account of any of HIS matters. 16 GOD opens the ears of men (HE speaks to them), and seals (describes) their instructions… 17 So HE may withdraw man from his purpose (own way) and to hide pride from man. Job 36:9 GOD shows man his transgressions, where they have exceeded (gone beyond the boundaries GOD has set for them). 10 GOD opens their ear through discipline and commands that they turn from iniquity 11 if they obey (choice) and serve HIM (good will happen) 12 but if they do not obey, they will perish, and they shall die without knowledge.”
Warning, GOD shows men the truth and their transgressions (sins) but if they refuse to accept the truth (2 Thessalonians 2:10) or suppress the truth (saying it is not true or doesn’t apply to me Romans 1:18ff) they lose the knowledge of what GOD has shown them (Luke 8:18).
Job 33:27 “GOD looks upon men and if any say, ‘I have sinned (agree with GOD that they are wrong) and perverted that which was right and it profited me not’ 28 GOD will deliver his soul from going to the pit (lowest hell) and his life shall see the light. 29 all these things GOD often times works with man. 30 to bring him back from the pit (lowest hell) and to be enlightened with the light of the living.”
Therefore, in the Old Testament faith in and obedience to GOD’s word spoken in their hearts was the way they found forgiveness. “Even as Abraham believed GOD and it was accounted unto him as righteousness” (Galatians 3:6).
As Job 34:4 says, “let us choose judgement (GOD’s words).” Accept the RANSOM.
John 3:16 “for GOD so loved the world that HE gave HIS only begotten SON that whosoever believes in HIM shall not perish but have eternal life”.
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Sharon
Why Purim?
Lately not just personally but globally events seem out of hand, troubles that we cannot control. So, what should we do? The 1st thing I do, is run to the throne of grace (Hebrews 4:16) and there I am reminded that GOD works all things for an end result of good to those who will call on the name of the LORD (Romans 8:28+ 1 Corinthians 1:2).
On Monday and Tuesday, March 6-7, Jews around the world will celebrate Purim. This holiday is a memorial of GOD’s deliverance of the Jews from annihilation. Although the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY’s name never appears in the little book of Esther, we see the LORD GOD sovereignly at working behind the scenes to control the outcome.
The queen refused to come when the king called her to come show herself to his guests. The king became enraged, and his advisors suggested that he dispose the queen for her actions. They said that if her actions were allowed, since they were done before many guests, women everywhere would despise their husbands. The king quite drunk agreed, and she was permanently removed from being queen.
Later, the king missed his queen, his advisors suggested a beauty contest to select a new queen and the king thought it was a great idea. So, messengers were sent throughout the 127 providences of his kingdom from India even unto Ethiopia, to gather the most beautiful young girls to be brought into his harem and considered for the title of queen. The one the king favored would become queen.
Meanwhile a proud man in a high position of the kingdom, an antisemitic, Haman by name, had conceived plans to kill all the Jews throughout the vast kingdom ruled by the king just because one Jew refused to bow before him.
Purim is an annual reminder and celebration of GOD’s omniscience (GOD knows all things, past, present and future) and HIS love and provision for HIS people the Jews.
Even before Haman and his plot, GOD knew it was coming for HE knows our thoughts before we think them. The LORD set the stage and nudged/whispered suggestions for people to act in certain ways. So, by the time this villain had gotten the king to sign off on his scheme, GOD had already provided for the rescue of the Jews by giving a beautiful young Jewish girl named Esther great favor and she was selected as queen.
Upon learning of the plot, Esther knew she had a life-threatening choice to make. To go before the king without being called would mean instant death, unless the king held out his scepter to her. Before going into his presence, Esther insisted all the Jews fast for 3 days for her. (Fasting is a form of humbling yourself before GOD, a form of prayer).
After the 3 days she was strengthen and stated, “If I perish, I perish,” and dressing in her royal robes she humbly went before the king and he held out his scepter to her. Through her intercessory work the plan to destroy the Jews was thwarted and much more. For the Jews gained great honor throughout the kingdom of 127 providences.
Other episodes within this short book, including the king not being able to sleep, show how GOD secretly put things in place, synchronizing them, and setting the stage so the people’s personal choices would accomplish HIS will. If you have not yet read this short book, you are missing out.
Whatever you are facing today, GOD has known about it from eternity past. Just like with Esther, when we trust in the LORD with all our hearts (Proverbs 3:5-7), HE will carry us through all the trials that come against us in this life until the day HE calls us up and we see HIM face to face.
Take a moment today to thank GOD for HIS unending love and provision for you.
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Sharon
Always the same
We lived out in the country when my kids were small. One spring day as I walked, I noticed little tadpoles swimming in a muddy shallow puddle on the dirt road out in Ellicott and pointed them out to my children and telling them that one day those tadpoles would be frogs. Days later John and Shirley came excitedly to me exclaiming they had seen those tadpoles had turned into frogs and had hopped out of the water.
But in the biblical times when the Jews were slaves in Egypt, when all the frogs hopped out of the Nile River, the Egyptians were none too happy about it at all. The frogs got into everything, on the beds, in the ovens, and on people (Exodus 8:3).
Rereading the account of the plagues GOD brought upon Egypt to deliver the Hebrews from their slavery, I was impressed how GOD always acts the same (James 1:17, Hebrews 13:8).
Each time before GOD acted and brought a plague whether it be frogs, or hail, boils, or darkness, HE always 1st warned the Pharaoh. So, Pharaoh always had an opportunity to believe GOD’s Word and believe that GOD would do as HE said. If Pharoah acted accordingly, he could avoid the plague. Time after time after time he refused to obey GOD.
GOD’s long-suffering finally came to an end when the wickedness of Pharaoh was full (Genesis 15:16) after refusing to believe and obey time and time again. Then GOD hardened his heart.
It’s just like our salvation from our sin. We are given an opportunity to turn to GOD by believing in JESUS. “For GOD so loved the world that HE gave HIS only begotten SON that whosoever believes in HIM would not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16) “He who believes on the SON has everlasting life; and he that believes NOT the SON shall not see life, but the wrath of GOD abides on him” (John 3:36).
GOD is warning people now and it is written in HIS book the Bible. GOD will do what HE has said he will do and although in HIS loving long- suffering HE is waiting as the earth grows in wickedness not wanting any to perish but all to come to a knowledge of the truth (2 Peter 3:9). Only GOD knows the appointed day when their wickedness is full (Genesis 15:16) and HIS long suffering will come to an end. At that time, judgment will come on all those who refuse the love of the truth (2 Thessalonians 2:10) and suppress the truth in unrighteousness (Romans 1:18), those who even now are storing up wrath to themselves (Romans 2:5), just like Pharaoh did.
Every believer in the LORD JESUS CHRIST has been made an ambassador for JESUS (2 Corinthians 5:20) and has been commissioned by JESUS to be HIS witness (Acts 1:8). Do you tell others about JESUS? They really do need to hear.
Looking for JESUS and talking about HIM,
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Sharon
Now is the day
Our GOD is a GOD of love. HE works for the end result of good. But being good HE can not allow evil to go on eternally and continue to hurt others. Therefore, HIS longsuffering will one day come to an end, HE then must eternally punish all who refuse to come to HIM for forgiveness. HE is doing all HE can to get people to come to HIM and be saved.
15 years ago today my 14 year old grandson Ronnie passed from this life into the glorious presence of our great GOD and Savior. When Facebook brought up in memories what I posted that day I saw how it is the same truth as GOD spoke to me through HIS living word concerning the earthquakes in Turkey and the middle east as I poured out my heart to HIM with tears.
February 8, 2009 I wrote: Today my 14 year old grandson Ronnie passed from this life into the Presence of our glorious GOD. The last few days since his liver quit working have been difficult for the rest of us but necessary (in GOD’s economy). Throughout that time questions bombarded my mind and I silently dialogued with GOD and in HIS grace HE allowed me to see things I needed to understand to do what HE wanted me to do. During that time GOD gave me the privilege to share the saving Gospel with 2 seekers who had come to see Ronnie. One was 69 years old and one was 16. Seeing their openness showed me that dealing with the situation with Ronnie put things into perspective for many. Even some broken relationships within the family were healed that day.
It is awesome to know GOD uses all things for an end result of good to those who love HIM (Romans 8:28). Truly one day we shall understand that GOD does nothing without a good cause (Ezekiel 14:23).
Today February 8, 2023 The truth I saw 14 years ago today when my grandson Ronnie died, GOD reminded me of again today as I prayed and cried for all that is happening in Turkey and Syria and spreading throughout the Middle East with the disasters caused by the continuing earthquakes.
GOD says HE presets the exact times and places so that people would reach out to HIM (Acts 17:26-27).
As JESUS told us in Matthew 24:8 that these signs (one being increasing earthquakes in several places along with other signs) are the beginning of sorrows (pre-birth pains that increase in intensity until the baby is born). GOD uses pre-birth pains to prepare the body of a woman to give birth. HE is using what we now see to cause people see their need and to call upon HIM and be saved from the coming 7 year Tribulation of GOD’s wrath on sin.
So in CHRIST’s stead I plead with you be reconciled to GOD now, for HE does not delight in the death of any but that they all come to JESUS and obtain eternal life (John 3:16, 2 Peter 3:9).
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Sharon
Looking for JESUS
My pastor makes an attempt to greet as many of us as possible and is careful to speak our names. Many have told me that amazes them and makes them feel so welcome.
Like you and me, GOD wants people to know HIM, to understand and love HIM. That likeness is not accidental for GOD made humans in HIS own image (Genesis 1:27). GOD who knows all things (past, present, and future), knew how people with choice would act before HE even made them, but that didn’t stop HIM from making us. The desire in GOD to have people choose to love HIM drew salvation’s plan before the creation of the world (1 Peter 1:20, Revelation 13:8).
I’ve been reading in Ezekiel and over and over I read the phrase “and they shall know that I AM the LORD.” I marked each place and went back and counted around 70 times that exact phrase is used. 90 times in all knowing is mentioned in Ezekiel’s 48 chapters. In each case these are prophetic passages. That is: They say that when something specific happens in the future then someone shall know GOD is behind it all. Many of these prophesies have been literally fulfilled.
Now biblical prophecy centers around the Jews and their interactions with people, for GOD selected Abraham and his descendants through Isaac and then through Jacob (Israel) to tell the world about HIMSELF and to show the world what HE is like and thus bless them. HE gave the Jews the Word of GOD to share with all mankind. Just like JESUS chose the small group who believed in HIM to be witnesses for HIM (Acts 1:8) and then teach those who would believe everything HE taught them (Matthew 28:19-20).
Ezekiel tells how GOD would cast the Jews out of their land for a time to punish them for their sins and then HE would bring them back and bless them. This happened repeatedly. Ezekiel 33 and 34 prophesies that GOD would scatter for the last time HIS people. That time they would be scattered around the whole world. The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY then would make their land desolate, uninhabitable even by animals. Yet, HE further promised that HE would call the Jews back to their own land and it would blossom as never before, and the Jews would flourish and never leave their land again.
The fulfillment of that prophesy and the great bringing back of HIS chosen people to their own land (which is still in process) began after the holocaust and was marked when Israel became a legitimate nation in 1948. For 2000 years they had been away from their land and their forgotten language, yet they came back and relearned Hebrew.
In Ezekiel 36:36 we see how GOD has revealed HIMSELF more clearly to those countries round about Israel because of this regathering of HIS people and blessing them. “Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it.”
In Ezekiel, it is when judgment falls that people open their eyes and come to know the LORD. Isn’t that the truth that it sometimes takes something really hard to wake us up to the truth.
“They shall know that I am the LORD when I have exercised judgment..” (Ezekiel 28:22).
When one speaks the Word of GOD the hearer will know the message is from GOD’s word to them (whether they accept it or refuse it. Ezekiel 2:5
Now these things also apply to us who are not Jews.
“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope” (Romans 15:4).
GOD has said, “For GOD so loved the world, that HE gave HIS only begotten SON, that whosoever believes in HIM should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). “He that believes on the SON has everlasting life: and he that believes not the SON shall not see life; but the wrath of GOD abides (stays) on him” (John 3:36).
The last book of the Bible, Revelation, prophesies of what is coming. It tells of 7 years when the wrath of GOD falls on all who have rejected JESUS CHRIST. The Jews 1st and also the Gentiles. We call it the great Tribulation, the Bible also calls it Jacob’s trouble or the 70th week of Daniel.
“And they shall know that I am the Lord, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them” (Ezekiel 6:10).
But we who have believed in JESUS and trust in HIS finished work on the cross have a blessed hope, for “we turned to GOD from idols to serve the living and true GOD. And to wait for HIS SON from heaven, whom HE raised from the dead, even JESUS, who delivered us from the wrath to come” (1 Thessalonians 1:10).
“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great GOD and our Savior JESUS CHRIST” (Titus 2:13).
Even so come LORD JESUS.
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Sharon
Our GOD is greater!
Do you remember singing the songs, “Our GOD is greater” or “How great is our GOD”? How can people know about our marvelous and all HE has done unless we tell them? Do we let others know about our great GOD? Do we even tell HIM what we think of HIM?
LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, YOU are infinitely greater… beyond all we can imagine.
How great is YOUR faithfulness we see that it YOUR design both in the physical as seen in the seasons and in our lives, how YOU keep YOUR promises. “The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, HIS mercies never come to an end, they are new every morning, new every morning, great is THY faithfulness O LORD, great is THY faithfulness (Lamentations 3:22-23).
How great is YOUR love, compassion and mercy for while we were sinners YOU sent YOUR only Begotten Son, JESUS (John 3:16) to come pay for our sins so we could be adopted into YOUR family and live forever with YOU.
How great is YOUR wisdom and understanding seen in YOUR plans for each of YOUR creation from the boundaries of the waves of the sea, to the heavenly bodies and even to mosquitos… big and small YOUR designs are according to YOUR great wisdom and understanding. Plus, YOU tell us that YOU have specific plans for each of those who believe in JESUS (Ephesians 2:10). It is so amazing.
How great is YOUR humor and creativity. I look at the vast variety of colors and designs from graceful bird to the cartoon stick character of a Praying Mantis. I am amazed and yet at times must laugh with YOU.
How great is YOUR joy and peace that YOU pour out on those who look to YOU. And do we ever need it. Thank YOU.
Yet these are only a tiny part of YOUR ways, Besides the amazing wonder of JESUS coming to save us, the things I’ve mentioned are but some of the minor things YOU do, “merely a whisper of YOUR glory and the outer fringe of YOUR workings; how faint the whisper we hear of YOU! Who then can understand?’ (Job 26:14).
YOUR greatness is unsearchable (Psalm 145:3) and I bow in wonder. Please show me more of YOU and my LORD JESUS CHRIST.
It thrills me that YOU take great delight in me, take time to quiet me with YOUR love and even sing over me (Zephaniah 3:37). And it blows my mind that when we who love YOU think about YOUR name (character) and talk about it that YOU are so delighted that YOU have our words recorded and make an awesome vow concerning us (Malachi 3:16-17).
Thank YOU for loving me and giving me JESUS and the HOLY SPIRIT and YOUR promise never to leave me nor forsake me (Hebrews 13:5). YOU are so good!
I love YOU, LORD.
Sharon
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