O my soul, you have said to the LORD, You are my Lord, My goodness is nothing apart from You.”--Psalm 16:2
Dear Suzanne, Rebecca, Anna, and Mikayla,
The Lord does not need me or you or anything we think we can do for Him. If there is anything good in us, it is from Him. We have no goodness outside of Him. We can offer Him nothing. Job 22:2-3 says "Can a man be profitable to God, Though he who is wise may be profitable to himself? Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways blameless? Then again in Job 37:7-8 "If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand? Your wickedness affects a man such as you, And your righteousness a son of man." 1 Corinthians 4:7 says "What do you have but what you have received? And if you have received it, then why do you boast as though you didn't receive it?" If there is any goodness in my life it is because God is at work in my life. I can't boast in anything because my righteousness is a gift from Him through belief in His Son.
Are you seeing how we bring absolutely nothing to the table...nothing. Yet look at the things that Psalm 139 tells us about His love, care and concern for us. He takes our hand. He leads us and upholds us. When the darkness falls on us, He makes the night light about us and His thoughts toward us are more in number than the sand. Read John 17 and be overwhelmed with His graciousness and His love. Listen to what David has to say in Psalm 8.
"When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have Even the beasts of the field,The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas. O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!"
Psalm 40:17 says But I am poor and needy; Yet the LORD thinks upon me." The Lord not only thinks on us, He died for us when we were His enemies and lives forever to make intercession for us.
Romans 5:8-10 says that "God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them."
Are you getting the picture girls..."He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" (Romans 8:32) What unfathomable grace we have in Christ Jesus. Luke 12:32 says it is His pleasure to give us His kingdom. Philippians 1:6 says that He who has begun a good work in us will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. What does He ask of us for all His care and concern. What is His desire? The answer is in John, Chapter 3. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." Do as the Psalmist did in Psalm 116. "What shall I render to the LORD for all His benefits toward me? I will take up the cup of salvation, And call upon the name of the LORD." Cast your care upon Him girls, He truly cares for you.
Love
Mom
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it--1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
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