When we come to Christ, we cross the chasm between unbelief to faith, and we completely surrender to Him. The next spiritual hurdle that we cross is between our faith in our triune God, and our trust that He has everything under His control – even the worst of circumstances – and He wants only His best for us (Romans 8:28).
When we hear about God’s miracles in the life of those we meet, this strengthens our desire to trust in Him and to surrender our whole life to Him. He is faithful in all things, and when our dreams and goals are not realized, then we know that He has something better in store for us.
Eventually, we abandon our human desires and joyfully walk in His plans for us instead, which are so much better for us than our own dreams. Trusting our Heavenly Father’s Will for us is more beneficial than anything this world has to offer to us. God also has heavenly rewards for us that He provides for our faithfulness to Him during our lifetime.
He gives us His wisdom and power to serve Christ, after Christ’s second coming to the earth, during His reign as King and Lord over this world. Our intimate union at that time will not only include our redeemed spirit and soul, but also our glorified body.
All Born Again Believers receive the fullness of God, which gives us multiple opportunities to experience His grace in our life (John 1:16). Every ethnic group has the ability to experience the fullness of His blessings because He does not exalt one race above another (Romans 15:29; Colossians 3:11).
The covenant between God and mankind in the Old Testament was founded on a shadow of things to come. Their animal sacrifice cleansed sin, and their feast days provided milestones to remember what God did for His chosen people.
In the New Testament, we trust in the saving work of Jesus on Calvary’s cross to free us from sin’s dominion and to enable us to walk in the fullness of God’s Will for us. God gives us a new heart of flesh to replace our former heart of stone (Ezekiel 36:26), and He makes all things new in our spirit, soul, and body (2 Corinthians 5:17; Revelation 21:5).
Prayer:
Father God, thank You for putting parameters around our life to keep us walking on Your straight and narrow road of protection. Many more people will walk on the wide path to destruction because of their choices, but we thank You for helping us to find the narrow road that leads to eternity with You (Matthew 7:13-14).
We rejoice as we see changes in our life, directed by Your Spirit’s transforming work in our personality, desires, world view, and life goals. Our union with Your intimate presence in our life is our mainstay and provides us with a high tower and fortress during earthly storms (Psalm 18:2). We cannot praise and thank You enough for Your constant watch-care over our life.
Thought for the Day:
God is our Father and is over all, works through us all, and His Spirits abide in us all; He gives us His wisdom to avoid poor decisions that will only cause us more wearisome trials, and He invites us to walk in His Spirit so we will not fulfill the lusts of our flesh.
- 1 Corinthians 15:28; Galatians 5:15-25; Ephesians 4:6
