Worthy

 

My Bible meditation today

2 Thessalonians 1  The lines standing out to me today:

“God will make you worthy of His Kingdom”

“ We are praying that God will make you worthy of the life to which He has called you”

What does this mean?

 

We are all saved by faith in Jesus Christ the Lord. Saved from being guilty sinners deserving hell.   Changed to be children in God’s family.

 

This is God's undeserved favour(grace) to all who turn away from sin (repent), to trust in Jesus Christ the Lord.

 

But God has good plans for his children. His plan is that they should grow and mature into Christians, worthy of belonging to the Lord.  This means a change of attitude- instead of being proud self-achievers, we live by trusting God as our heavenly Father who cares, provides and guides us.

 So we take time to listen to his voice from the Bible

  We take time in quietness to pray . This way we discover the change from wanting things, to being content with what He gives us. He may give us much or little.

 Being worthy, is accepting Him and His goodness without trying to control everything ourselves. It is then that we can praise Him for the good and even the disappointments.

Like Jesus, we can say to God the Father, “your will be done “

 

So we become worthy as a person in the Kingdom of God's dear Son .

We  are then worthy, as a representative of God in this world.

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Let rhe seed of God's word grow

 

Does it make a difference?

 

Does it make any difference?

 

People coming and going at the market – the Bible stall gave away 15 Bibles and 20 Bible plaques plus Gospel booklets.

But why bother?

1.     For the honour of Jesus Christ our Saviour and Lord.

2.     In mercy upon the multitudes that live in spiritual darkness.

3.     To represent, as ambassadors, God revealed in Jesus Christ.

4.     In fulfillment of the Masters word – to be salt and light.

5.     By light resisting the forces of evil.

6.     As encouragement to the many believers from many countries.

 

Yes it worth it all – time , expense, weariness, stress – we as unprofitable servants count it a privilege to serve the LORD thus.

The success factor is recorded  by the accountant in heaven.

Our dominant Bible verse remains:

God so loved the world that He gave His only Son,

so that everyone who believes in Him, 

will not perish 

but have everlasting life.

John 3.16

Repent

 

The most forgotten word in public preaching – Repentance

 

“Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, does , with grief and hatred of sin, turn from it to God, with full purpose of and endeavour after, new obedience.”   WSC

 

Or in short ‘ Turn to God from idols to serve the living and true God’

 ( 1 Thessalonians 1 )

 

Or  as written in the book ‘The way of repentance’

‘Repentance is the life-saving doctrine to our sleepy and self indulgent age. It is the threshold to a holy God. It is the first word of the Gospel. The sorrow of repentance leads to joy, peace and purpose. It cleans the slate  of a burdened soul’

 

More than regret.

    True repentance opens the way to partake of the abundant grace of God.

Paul preached - Repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ

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The change HE is able to make

 

Something beautiful, something good
All my confusion, He understood
All I had to offer him, was brokenness and strife
But He made something, beautiful of my life

If there ever were dreams that were lofty and noble
They were my dreams at the start
And the hopes for life’s best were the hopes that I harboured
Down deep in my heart

But my dreams turned to ashes
My castles are crumbled
My fortune turned to loss
So I wrapped it all in the rags of my life
And laid it at the Cross

 

Something beautiful, something good
All my confusion, He understood
All I had to offer him, was brokenness and strife
But He made something, beautiful of my life
He made something, beautiful of my life

A child's response to "Who is Jesus?"

 

Trust and obey

 

Meditation from J. Kirby

Our preconceived thoughts, on the way the Lord works, I am sure, when we see the whole picture , will be smashed and burned. – Our work is entirely to trust and obey.

 

His ways are far more broader and complex than we can grasp, with many moving parts. This involves complete trust on our part.

 

When He called me, He already new my weaknesses and God gives the strength   - be encouraged that you can be part of His magnificent plan.

  Trust and obey

Complete trust will deflect all the darts of the enemy which are intended to spoil our joy.

    Those that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength – they shall run and not grow weary.