Tuesday, February 3, 2015

God is able

2Co 9:8  And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work

God is able. That doesn't say YOU are able to make all grace abound towards yourself.  GOD IS ABLE.

Now this next part may have some people up in arms about the fact there are starving, destitute Christians who are NOT sufficient in all things so they may abound to every good work.

 That is a lie, even the destitute are sufficient.

But honestly, there are those who will do all in their power to discredit God and God's word. There are those who refuse to comprehend that God's understanding of our needs are different than ours, that we MOSTLY only consider the here and now, rather than the eternal. If a Christian dies of starvation does that mean God didn't supply the grace He needed?  I suppose we can go as far as to say if a Christian dies at all God hasn't supplied the grace that person needed, their life ended in some fashion- heart failure etc. We can truly take things that far if we are so completely void of faith in God that we want to do so.

God's grace is sufficient in all things and it will abound towards us so we may live for Him no matter our situation. 

Christians do die of starvation. Christians are tortured. Christians are subjected to all of our earthly woes.  This does NOT mean God doesn't exist. It does mean the MAGIC GENIE God that some people want God to be doesn't exist. Way too many want that magic genie god, but that is not the God I worship, not at all.

The God I worship comprehends the need for freedom to choose, making us something MORE than slaves to a master, puppets to a puppet master. God never wanted puppets, He wanted counterparts and to be a real counterpart that freedom to choose had to be involved and that freedom made sin possible.  The results of sin became known and our God made a way possible to escape the penalty that sin demanded, that disobedience demanded.  This is the love of our God to forgive when the only other option was complete and utter annihilation of the creatures HE created.

By the grace of God may we abound in HIS GRACE always!


In the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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