God
the Father is so magnificent! He is faithful and true. Do you know Him? Or have you just believed the
atheists and others who ridicule God and the thought of Him? Why not check out
God and His Son for yourself. Get to know God for yourself and then develop a
personal relationship with Him and His Son. Or, if you already have a personal
relationship with Christ, God’s Son, perhaps you would like to know even more
about God in order to share your knowledge of Him with others, such as sharing about God when
you are actively and relationally mentoring another woman. To start your
journey into knowing God and developing a relationship with God and His Son, is
a beautiful poem below that says so much about Who God is. It was written by
Evelyn Gustafson in Springfield, Missouri who wrote this poem back in December,
2010. The poem says:
“Heavenly
Father,
There’s
so much I don’t understand…
How
the power of a spoken word
could cause the earth to be be
How You made the birds to soar in the sky
and the fish to fill the sea
I’m
amazed that from a bit of dust
You formed humanity
to watch over your creation
and fellowship with Thee
Omnipresence
I cannot explain
or the Blessed Trinity
How
you hear the prayers of all who seek,
be they poor, or royalty
I’m
in awe that you allowed Your Son
to
lay aside His Deity
To
be born a babe in Bethlehem,
for
an earthly ministry
From
town to town He shared Your love
Lived a life of purity,
Then
stood alone before an angry crowd
and endured their cruelty
He
could have called ten thousand angels
to declare His sovereignty,
But He bore that cross up a lonely hill
and
gave His life on Calvary
The
depth of love, I can’t comprehend,
not for a lowly one like me
But
I thank you, Lord and I’ll praise you, Lord
Throughout Eternity
--by
Evelyn Gustafson
What a thought provoking poem! Every
person on earth should at some point in time, think about the magnificence of
God and His love for us. But, sadly many people go through life without
thinking about things other than themselves and their momentary needs. If they
took a moment to think on what it took to create this earth and make it
habitable for humans, perhaps we could all get past the idea of evolution and
some unexplained explosion and false science to the Truth of
the Creation and the Truth of the One Who Created us. I hope these blogs will
give you and others something to think about, i.e. God, and His greatness and
magnificence. Then I hope what you have learned from the Word of God will give you the words to speak when talking to others about God.
God is Faithful.
In the last few blogs we
have been learning how to tell other people about the greatness and glory of
God. We have already discovered through the Holy Scriptures that God is
Omnipresent, Omniscient, and Omnipotent. But even though those things are
mind-boggling, there is so much more to the Triune God of the Universe.
One of
God’s most interesting and great characteristics of God’s is that God is Faithful. How, though, do
we tell other people about His loving faithfulness? Why, too, should we care
about telling others of God’s faithfulness? Can’t they learn about Him and His
faithfulness on their own? Sadly, the world has become so hard-hearted, blinded
with worldly desires and just plain unobservant, that some people cannot see
the Truth about God when it is right in front of them. To make matters worse, God
has been constantly ridiculed by unbelievers, false prophets, and other false
religions. Still others simply do not want to hear the truth of God. So, what can we do to share the Truth with those we encounter? First, we have to question the so called "norm" in society or the status quo that people want us to accept.
Unfortunately,
many people have not been taught to question the status quo. They simply
believe and accept what atheists and unbelievers spout off about there being no
God, or they believe the lies told by their professors, other false religions and the ideas of others
without questioning for themselves why they should believe the same. Moreover,
there are also those individuals who in hurting deeply have simply ignored the
obvious help that is right in front of them and have instead turned to even
more destructive methods to self-medicate their emotional and physical hurts.
Christians, though, have the responsibility of learning everything we can about God and His Son,
Jesus Christ, so we can then share with others what we know about God. We also
have the responsibility of actively mentoring others and in the process empowering
others with the Truth of God and His Son, Jesus Christ. Furthermore, we have
the responsibility of refuting the lies told about God with gentleness and
kindness while speaking the Truth of God. The bottom line is that if we don’t
share what we know about God and His Son, Jesus Christ, these people will be
lost forever!
The
same words that the Apostle Paul told his protégé, Timothy, many years ago,
which are recorded in the Bible, still apply to all Christians today. Paul told
Timothy: “I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who
is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach
the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with
great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will
accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires, and
will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. But you,
be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill
your ministry.” – (II Timothy 4:1-5. NASB).
In many ways, we have reached the time when people simply refuse to believe in
sound doctrine and just want to have their ears tickled, like Paul told us
would happen. But, it is still our responsibility to speak the truth even when
we put our own lives on the line to do so.
Those Christians who are engaged in Active
Relational Christian Mentoring, and other Christian
services or ministries, as well as those Christians who are being that Christ-light within
this dark world have a responsibility to to step forward and
tell others about God and the Savior of the World, i.e. God’s Son, Jesus
Christ. For, “born-again”
Christians have the joy of personally knowing Christ. But, we cannot stop with
our own Salvation, because we are also to share the joy and peace of Christ's Salvation by following and adhering to the Great Commission to
go and tell others about Christ, God’s Son, and His redemptive love and His blood,
which was shed for our sins. However, to be able to tell others about God and
His Son, we must first come to know God and Christ personally. Then, we can
easily engage in Active Relational
Christian Mentoring and other Christian services as well; all for the glory
of the Lord.
Before
we can go and tell others about God and the gift of Salvation, though, we need to know
and understand who God is. So, this week I want to enlighten you about another
characteristic of God’s, i.e. God’s
faithfulness, which is so important to understand. We need to understand God's faithfulness before we can share the Gospel message of
Salvation. For, it is truly understanding the faithfulness of God that others can come to
believe in and rely on the Truth of Christ and the gift of Salvation.
Why
do we need to understand God’s faithfulness?
Well, humans have a tendency to attribute to God certain characteristics
that we think are important and then we leave out other true characteristics of
God’s, because we don’t know about them or have not studied the Word to
understand them. That is why, if someone does not really know God and
His Word, they can get frustrated and turned off simply because of their own miss-perceptions
or false ideas of who God is. For, in being human, we often try to attribute to God
those things that we want God to be, and we often do not focus on
who God really is. Consequently, we can often hear someone say, “My God would not do that,” or I can’t believe in a God that would do… such
n’ such.”.
God,
though, does not live by our rules or by our beliefs. He exists and is. He is Who He is and He
cannot be made into something that we want Him to be. In fact, God is so much
greater than we can even imagine. So, in learning about this next characteristic
of God’s, I hope that you will be able to see how much higher and greater God
is than we are, and then begin to understand that we can’t attribute our way of
doing things as to being God’s way of doing things. In fact, we must always remember
that God is the potter and we are the clay. But, God is a faithful potter.
(If you are new to reading this blog, this is a week’s
worth of blogging. So feel free to read this blog in increments, if you feel
that you don’t have the time to read it all at once.).
God is Faithful
“Know
therefore that the LORD your God He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His
covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love
Him and keep His commandments.” – (Deuteronomy 7: 9.
NASB).
One
of the most comforting and assuring attributes of God’s is that God is
faithful! What exactly does faithful mean? Well, here on earth “faithful” is
attributed to those who do not sin against the one they love. It is someone who
remains true to their spouse, fiancé, or friend. But, being faithful is also
attributed to those who are faithful to their job or their career. However, the
word “faithful” has so many more parts or explicit meanings and renderings than
what we generally think about or designate when we talk about one being
faithful. So, let’s find out a little more about the word “faithful” and how
that word applies to our mighty and sovereign God.
“Faithful
is He who calls you, and He will bring it to pass.” –
(I Thessalonians 5: 24. NASB). This means that when God calls you
into service or to help someone that He will give you the ability to do what He
has asked you to do. God will not let you down. For example, because of the Great Commission, we know that God
has asked all Christians to share the Gospel with others. Unfortunately, we often
allow fear and the thought of being ridiculed to interfere with what God has
asked us to do. To make matters worse, we tell ourselves that we are not fluent
in speech, or that we don’t know enough Scripture, or a myriad of other
excuses. But whether we are simply trying to share Christ with another, to
mentor another woman, or to simply engage in some other unfamiliar task that
God has asked us to do, we must remember that the Lord will not give us a job
or task and then leave us stranded in how to do it. Indeed, God is responsible
for putting people in our path to help us accomplish His request and for the
success of what He has planned for us to do. All we have to do is obey Him and
follow through on what He has asked us to do. For, God is faithful and will
ensure that what we are about to do for Him will take place, if we are obedient.
God
is also faithful to hear our cries and pleas. David wrote
several Psalms with the emphasis on God’s faithfulness to hear and provide for our
needs. One such Psalm that David wrote states: “I waited patiently for the LORD;
and He inclined to me and heard my cry. He brought me up out of the pit of
destruction, out of the miry clay, and He set my feet upon a rock making my
footsteps firm. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; …
How blessed is the man who has made the Lord His trust, and has not turned to
the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.” -- (Psalm 40: 1-4. NASB).
Another
Psalm from Ethan the Ezrahite states: “I will sing of the lovingkindness of the
LORD forever; To all generations I will make known Your faithfulness with my
mouth. … In the heavens you will establish your faithfulness. The heavens will
praise Your wonders, O LORD; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy
ones. … O LORD God of hosts, who is like You, O mighty LORD? Your
faithfulness surrounds You.” – (Psalm 89: 1, 2, 5, 8.
NASB).
So,
what all then does faithfulness entail? In other words, what does it mean when
we say that God is faithful and true? Well, to fully understand faithfulness we
will need to take a look at some other words that describe faithfulness and
lovingkindness. I hope in learning more about faithfulness that you will not
only be able to more completely describe God to others, but that you will
desire to be more faithful and true to what God has created you to be for Him.
The first word that we will take a look at more fully that delineates the words “faithful
and faithfulness” is the word “conscientious”, for faithfulness incorporates
conscientiousness.
God is Conscientious
Among other significant meanings and standards for the words “faithful and faithfulness” is that of being conscientious. God is always right and true, and in being conscientious about being right and true God shows both care and precision in everything that He does. So, through the Word of God, we learn that God is very conscientious and precise about everything that He creates and about everything He does for us, His creation. In other words, He is conscientiously faithful.
In
His conscientiousness, we were made perfect in every sense, including perfect
in beauty and health. However, with the sin of Adam and Eve and their
subsequent fall from the Garden of Eden, evil, which includes bad germs and
bacteria along with evil thoughts and actions, inundated this earth. That is
because Satan wants unhealthiness and problems for all of God’s creation. In
fact, Satan truly hates us and God. Remember, though, that God is more
powerful, and loving and faithful than we can even imagine. He is
conscientious about His faithfulness.
We
get a glimpse of God’s faithful conscientiousness when we read again Psalm 89
which states: “Your faithfulness also surrounds You. You rule the swelling of the
seas; When its waves rise, You still them. … The world and all it contains, You
have founded them. The north and the south, You have created them; … Once You
spoke in a vision to Your godly ones and said, … I have found David My servant;
With My holy oil I have anointed him… with whom My hand will be established. …
The enemy will not deceive him, nor will the son of wickedness afflict him. … My
faithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with him. And in My name his
horn will be exalted. My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever, and My
covenant shall be confirmed to him. … But I will not break off My
lovingkindness from him, nor deal falsely in My faithfulness. My covenant I
will not violate nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.” –
(Psalm 89: 8, 9, 11, 12, 18, 21, 22, 24, 28, 33, 34. NASB).
It
is in God’s loving faithfulness that He has also conscientiously and precisely
made a plan for mankind’s redemption through His Son, Jesus Christ. This means
that God has a faithful and loving plan to bring all those who believe on His
Son, as their risen Savior, to eternity with Him. The earth will then be
restored to its former glory and will be even better than before. In fact, the
Apostle John was given a vision of the new Heaven and earth by Jesus Christ,
and He recorded that vision in the book of Revelation.
John
said, “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the
first earth passed away, and there is no longer sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adored for her
husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle
of God is among men, and He will dwell among them and they shall be His people,
and God Himself will be among them. … And the city has no need of the sun or
the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is
the Lamb. … In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will
never be closed; and they will bring the glory and honor of the nations into
it; and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abominations and lying, shall
ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of
life.” – (Revelation 21: 1-3. 23, 25-27. NASB).
Can you imagine such faithfulness and
precision? God who is faithful and true has particularly and conscientiously
made the perfect and precise home for all who will believe on Christ.
Throughout the process, God has made sure that everything is done to His degree
of scrupulousness, which is part of being faithful. If God is that faithful in
carrying through with the home in eternity, which He has promised to all who
believe on Christ, just imagine how faithful God is in loving those He has
created. Unfortunately, we are the ones who are not faithful and who fall away
into sin at the least little provocation or temptation. But, God does not sin
and is not tempted. He is conscientious. God is conscientiously loving and
faithful.
God is Trustworthy
The
next word that is incorporated within the word faithfulness is the word “trustworthy”.
The Lord is trustworthy. This
means that God can always be trusted and will never let us down when we place
our trust in Him. In other words, God is dependable. So, we can depend
on him to care for us and to be there for us when we call on His name in humble
prayer. For, God is dependable and trustworthy.
Part
of the concept of being trustworthy is not only to be able to trust in God, and
depend on Him, but to also understand that God is reliable. In other
words, we can rely on God for everything that He has promised as well as for His
guidance, love, protection. Unlike some people, God will never let us down,
because He is reliable and trustworthy. The Bible expresses God's faithful trustworthiness with these words: "... for He, God Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. I will not, I will not, I will not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let you down (relax my hold on you)! Assuredly not!" -- (Hebrews 13: 5. Amplified).
The
Psalmist also explained the LORD’s trustworthiness this way: “For the Word of the LORD holds
true, and everything He does is worthy of our trust. … The LORD’s plans
stand firm forever; His intentions can never be shaken. … the LORD
watches over those who fear Him and those who rely on His unfailing love.”
–
(Psalm 33: 4, 11, 18. NLT). These Words that are written in the Bible
are true, because they are God’s words, and they do not change. In fact, God
has established His intentions, then recorded His intentions throughout His
Word, and He has furthermore stated that He will never change His intentions.
This is because God is trustworthy. Moreover, God’s plans will stand
firm forever.
God is Constant
In
addition to the words faithful and faithfulness meaning conscientiousness
and trustworthiness, being faithful also means that God is constant. In
other words, He never changes. He is the same, yesterday and forever.
This means that God is unchangeable. In fact, James tells us that, “Whatever
is good and perfect comes from God above, who created all heaven’s lights.
Unlike them, He never changes or cast shifting shadows.” –
(James 1: 17. NLT). (Throughout the Bible, God and His
goodness are analogous to light, whereas evil and badness are analogous to
darkness. God’s perfection is seen in all His created heavenly lights, whereas
evil and sin is relegated to darkness and shadows.). God has good intentions
and plans that will not change at a whim. Therefore, God is unchangeable, trustworthy and constant.
God
is not one way today and then another way the next day. Furthermore, God has even
told us in His Word that He unchangeable or constant. For, within the book of
Hebrews we are told that “In the same way God, desiring even more to
show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose,
interposed with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things in which it is
impossible for God to lie, who have taken refuge would have strong
encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have
as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters
within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become
a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.” –
(Hebrews 6: 17- 20. NASB).
This
verse refers to an unknown High priest named Melchizedek in the Older Testament. Back in the
book of Genesis, Melchizedek blessed Abraham after God had faithfully
given Abraham victory over some pagan kings and their warriors when they
had captured Abraham’s nephew, Lot. In the above verse, the author of Hebrews
established some parallels between this High Priest Melchizedek and Christ
Jesus, our High Priest. For, the author of book of Hebrews is telling us
that it was High Priest, Melchizedek, who reminded Abraham that his victory came through God’s faithfulness. So, too, is our victorious Salvation today through the
faithfulness of God’s Son, Christ Jesus, who is our High Priest after the order
of Melchizedek.
Christ is also King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Moreover, Christ as part of the Triune God is always victorious and constant. He is
unchangeable and constant too. So, in further comparing Melchizedek and Christ the author of Hebrews
tells us that God wanted Abraham’s good, just as God wants our good today. Like
Abraham, we, too, have to fight the forces of evil. But, the only way that we
can do so is to rely on God and His goodness and the Salvation that God has
offered us through His Son, Jesus Christ, Who is our High Priest and
intercessor before God the Father. In other words, God also wants good for us through our High priest, Jesus Christ. So, in His
faithfulness, we see that just as God was faithful to help Abraham and faithful to send a priest to Abraham, that God is also faithful to help us and so sent His Son, Jesus Christ. Therefore, we see that God is unchangeable and constant.
God
has always loved us and so in that love He will constantly give each of
us the chance to come to know His Son, Jesus Christ, and to believe on our
risen Lord. Then, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our
sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned,
we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.” –
(I John 1: 9. NASB).
Even
before, Adam and Eve’s fall from the Garden of Eden, God had established a plan
for our redemption from sin. He put that plan into effect with His Son, Jesus
Christ. Then, because God is constant, unchangeable and faithful, He will not
change that redemption plan, nor will He keep anyone who truly repents and asks
Christ into their heart from receiving Salvation. For, God has said that you
are completely forgiven and made righteous through Jesus’ sacrifice on the
Cross, if you choose to believe on His risen Son, Jesus Christ. In fact, God is
constantly merciful and loving in establishing a redemption plan and then
giving complete forgiveness to those who truly call upon the name of the Lord,
Jesus Christ. God is faithful in His love and in His gift of everlasting life.
The Aroma of Life and the Aroma of Death
Unfortunately,
there are many people today who are liars; denying the promise and constancy as
well as the faithfulness of God’s Salvation Plan. Some of those liars are both false
profits and antichrists. We shouldn’t be surprised that they are liars, for in
the Word of God, the Apostle Peter reminded the followers of Christ that there
would be many false prophets of which Christians should be wary. This same
message from Peter still applies today to the false prophets that we encounter
on a daily basis. For Peter said, “But false prophets also arose among the
people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly
introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them,
bringing swift destruction upon themselves.” –
(II Peter 2: 1. NASB).
Who
are these liars? Well, the Apostle John wrote in the Bible that a liar is “the
one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the
one who denies the Father and the Son.” -- (I John 2: 22. NASB).
What the Apostle John is telling us here is that the spirit of the antichrist
is found in anyone who is completely against Jesus Christ as God’s Son and
Savior of the World. This antichrist spirit is exhibited by anyone who demands
the removal of the Gospel message from society by whatever means, such as
through intimidation, litigation or legislation. This spirit of the antichrist
is found today in professors who profess false teachings and speak against God.
The spirit of the antichrist is also found in those who advocate false religions
and other gods. Although the actual person of the Antichrist will indeed appear
someday, the spirit of the antichrist is everywhere throughout the world today.
But, when the actual person called the Antichrist appears, he will then create
and foster even greater rebellion against Almighty God for a short period of
time. But, remember that God is Sovereign and all powerful. The Antichrist will
not be allowed to take over the world, but will instead have a very brief but
destructive few years of power. Still, God is faithful and constant. He
has told us that he will remove the Antichrist and that Christ Jesus will rule. Since
God cannot lie, we can believe God will do what He says He will do.
Although
we may sadden God with our behaviors or our lack of respect for Him, God will
still through His love for His creation give us every chance to come to the
“Saving” grace of Salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ. However, God is also
saddened knowing that some people will never come to Him through Christ, the
Son, but will instead choose to do life and then life ever after in hell without
ever knowing the love and faithfulness of God. For, they will end up in eternal
hell, because they chose to disregard the gift of Salvation that would have given
them everlasting life as the adopted children of God. Until their death,
though, God is faithful in His Promises and He is constantly ready to offer
them grace and mercy.
This
is where true Christians become very important to the spread of the Gospel
message. We know the Truth. We know God’s faithfulness and His lovingkindness. We
also know the joy and peace that one can receive from Christ and the Father
once a person has given their life to the Lord. Although we live in a fallen
world and still have to deal with the situations of this fallen world, we have
the assurance and the joy of knowing that we will one day spend eternity with
God and His Son. We can then share that knowledge with others who need to hear about
Christ and Salvation. In fact, the Apostle Paul wrote: “Thanks be to God, who always
leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the
knowledge of Him in every place. For we are a fragrance of Christ to God
among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing: to one an
aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who
is adequate for these things? For we are not like many, peddling the word of
God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of
God.” – (II Corinthians 2: 14-17. NASB).
Yes,
Christians have an aroma of life. We have an aroma of peace and a sweet spirit.
But, those who have the spirit of the antichrist, can often smell the aroma of
death, instead of smelling the sweetness of life. In fact, you may have noticed
some people taking an instant dislike to you for seemingly no reason. Well, if
you haven’t been a jerk, or done anything to cause them to dislike you, there
is a good chance that they are smelling the aroma of death that they have
brought upon themselves, because they have refused to believe on Christ. This
is sad, because God wants all to come to the saving grace of Christ.
God is Steadfast
God
in His faithfulness is steadfast! He is firmly fixed as the Sovereign
Lord of the Universe and as the supreme authority and royal King. Moreover, God
is firmly engaged in the life of His Creation. In other words, He listens to
our prayers or to the prayers of those who have asked Christ to come into their
heart. The prayers of His adopted children are always answered, just like a
good earthly father would answer a child’s requests. However, as the Sovereign
all-knowing and wise God that He is, God can answer our prayers according to
what He sees will be in our best interest. That means we may receive a “yes”
answer, a “no” answer” or a “not yet at this time” answer. But God will
steadfastly respond to His children’s prayers and their needs. He does not
ignore us! He is steadfast, faithful and true.
God
is faithfully resolute. This means that God has a firm
fixed purpose for His creation. God will not change that purpose nor will He
waver or be swayed by outside forces or pleas to break a promise that He has
made. For example, God has a plan for when people will have been given long
enough to come to Him through Jesus Christ, His Son. In fact, God sent His Only
Son, to earth to prepare people for the end of days. Then, Jesus said that He would
come back to earth to collect those that have believed upon Him, as the Risen
Son of God. Jesus also explained God’s plan for Christ to return in the Four Gospels and again in
the Book of Revelation. In both places, though, we know that only the Father in
Heaven, i.e. God, knows when the end of time will actually occur. For, God is faithfully resolute in His plan and will keep His Word no matter what.
God
is reliable. God can be counted upon to do what He
says He will do. So, He can be counted upon to maintain the world that we are
on until the end of time. We can also have confidence in the reliability of
God’s Word and His promises that He has made. For, example, God’s Word tells us
that God said that He would never flood the earth again. (See Genesis 7: 11-17). So, to give us the
assurance of His reliable Word, God put a rainbow in the sky to remind us that
He is not only reliable, but that He is a Promise Keeper. Another example
of God’s reliability and promises always kept, is the promise God gave to Israel
after God scattered them throughout the nations. God promised the Hebrew people
that He would again make Israel a nation, and that nation would be born in one
day. As we in the twenty-first century have seen, Israel was indeed born in one
day on May 15, 1948. What faithfulness as depicted through God’s reliability and promise
keeping.
Those
who recognize God’s faithfulness and His promise keeping, know that they can be
loyal to God. For, God will never let them down. Moreover, God has promised an
eternity of love and joy with Him and His Son, Jesus Christ once our lives on
this earth are over; provided that we have accepted Christ as our personal
Savior by believing on Him as the risen Son of God. Not only is God loyal to
His promises of an eternity in Heaven with Him, but Christians can easily be
loyal to Christ and the Father by being obedient in spreading the Gospel message and in living our lives in a manner that is worthy of God. We must allow our Christ-light to shine out upon the world and be faithful to God and Jesus Christ, just as God is faithful to us.
I
hope you have enjoyed getting to know more about God. Some of these things you
may have already known, but if not, I hope that you now will be more prepared
to share your knowledge about God with others you encounter. Christian women need to
start mentoring other women for many reasons, not the least of which is tell
other women about the empowerment and joy they can receive from knowing God and
His Son, Jesus Christ. I hope that you will consider Active Relational Christian mentoring in the future. You can do it!
You can be that Christian support, friend, help, etc. that another woman needs
and in the process live your life more fully for the Lord!
But,
if you do not yet know Christ as your Savior, I encourage you to reach out in
belief and ask God for forgiveness of your sins and then ask Christ to come
into your heart. Believe me, there is nothing in this world like a personal relationship with
Christ, the living Son of God. For, He is faithful and true!
Oh, Vicky, this posting is so very, very full and true of our Lord God Almighty!! It is super well-written; full of Jesus' love, grace, truth; and- yes, shows the faithfulness of our Lord and Savior! Beautifully constructed, and it encourages those who have fallen away, those Christians who are very committed, and the people who, soon we pray, are going to believe in the true Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Thank you, and I am passing this posting on to friends and family, as I have done so with other writings of yours, Dearest Friend. I love you, blessings in Jesus! Donna
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