Good Morning Girls
Read Luke 12:1-12 SOAP Luke 12:4-5, 7
Charlotte Jenkins said something yesterday regarding this passage. As we were discussing the physical suffering going on in our church body, she added, "There are so many things worse than death." She was so right - according to Luke 12:5. It's interesting that in the same paragraph that tells us to fear God, Jesus is describing how much He loves us. Sickness and death are not the end of life, yet Christians often make it seem that way. Our prayer requests often surround the physical needs of each other.
It's as if Jesus is saying, "Hey, I love you and want a relationship with you. I know everything about you. Don't keep trying to protect your body from harm. It's distracting you from having a right relationship with me." Father, help me to live in the reality of your presence, investing in my relationship with you. Help me to fear displeasing you so much that I shift my focus from the physical to my spiritual condition.
Our soap today deals with grace; it is unearned and unmerited favor that we don’t deserve. He loves us and is showing us not to fear anything from man but Him for only God has the power to cast us into an eternal separation from Him. But I also have never believed that God is sitting up in heaven with a big baseball bat ready to take us out with a wack at the first mess we fall into. We are very fortunate for to have such a caring God that loves mankind so much that He would send His only Son to die on a bloody cross for our sins. Would any of us give up our only child for a sinful world? I can be among the first to say that I would indeed find it impossible to do.
ReplyDeleteGod established His holy covenant with man promising grace for the future, in Genesis 17: 4-7. And yet the Kingdom of God is not only about you and those in your household, it is about reaching others. Because we know Jesus didn’t just stay in His family. He travel from town to town teaching and preaching the word of God. And his greatest act of mercy for His people was when He extended His hands out to the whole world and placed on a cross to be nailed down for our sins. Yes, God cares about every detail of my life and even in this great big universe He still see me a little tiny speck and calls me His child.
#thankfulforhisloveandmercy