Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Nothing but Good…

 

being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;Philippians 1:6


If you are a believer, then you can know that right now God is working a work of divine grace in your soul.  You can also be confident that He will continue to perfect and complete that work of grace He began in you until the day of Jesus Christ.  He has promised and He will do it. 


Beloved…He who delivered you from the power of darkness and conveyed you into the kingdom of the Son of His love will work nothing but good in the heart that has been surrendered into His care. NOTHING. BUT. GOOD. Think on that. Every moment of every day your God is working His good in your heart. THERE IS NOTHING THAT COULD BE BETTER THAN THAT.  


And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.—Romans 8:28


What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 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 8:31-32


Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.—1 Peter 1:3-5


Trust Him…revel in His sovereignty and rest in His love.  


Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.—2 Corinthians 4:16-18


Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?

The goodness of God endures continually.—Psalm 52:1


I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.—1 Corinthians 1:4-9


for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.Philippians 2:13


But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.—Ephesians 2:4-10


Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.—Hebrews 13 20-21