All Things

Posted : 22 Jul, 2014 02:20 AM

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes.

� Psalm 119:71

Did you know that everything you have experienced up to this point in your life can be used for good? That isn't to say you haven't experienced hardship. That isn't to say bad things haven't happened to you. But it is to say that God can work them out for good.



That includes the experiences of your childhood, whether good or bad. That includes your parents, whoever they may be. That includes your education, your present employment, or your lack of it. He will work all things together for good.



I went through hardship as a kid. I came from a home that was broken many, many times over, a home of alcoholism. I wouldn't wish my childhood on anyone. But God used it to make me the person that I am.



In the same way, God has used what you have gone through to make you the person that you are. So let it be worked together for good, and accept God's promise to you: "All things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose" (Romans 8:28). The phrase work together also could be translated "working together." In other words, it isn't over yet!



Maybe you are going through a process right now in which God is working things together for good. You don't see it yet. But you are a work in progress. Be patient. You have God's word on it: He will work all things together for good to those who LOVE Him and are the called according to His purpose. God is ultimately working all things for good � not just the good things, but all things.



So, do you LOVE :hearts: our God Jesus?



The God Jesus says:

If you love me, keep my commands.

John 14:15



KEEP...OBEY..IMPLEMENT...OBSERVE....



God Jesus says:

Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them."

John 14:21



Jesus says, "Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them."

John 14:23



Jesus says, "If you keep my commands, you will REMAIN in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in his love." John 15:10



NOTE: We know that we have come to know him GOD if we keep his commands. 1 John 2:3



So what are His COMMANDS?



2 John 1:6

And this is love:hearts:: that we walk in obedience:bow: to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love:hearts:.



3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, �I know Him,� and does not keep His commandments, is a liar:angeldevil:, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love :hearts:of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk :angel:just as He walked.

1 John 2



9 He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now. 10 He who loves:hearts: his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him. 11 But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.



NOTE: If you know that He (JESUS) is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness:hearts: is born of Him:angel:.



And now, little children, abide in Him (JESUS), that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed :angel:before Him at His coming.



For this is the love of God, that we keep :angel:His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. 1 John 5



We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.



Beloved, let us love :hearts:one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 1 John4



Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He (the SON of GOD) is, so are we in this world:angel:.



If someone says, �I love God,� and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.



And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love:hearts: one another, as He gave us commandment. 1 John 3

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