I've decided that I am going to include in my blog a weekly discussion on what I'm reading and learning from my Bible reading. So, starting with the beginning, here we go...
From that moment in the garden when we first chose to doubt God’s word, His character, and chose instead to trust the lie of the enemy; to trust our own thoughts and emotions, we have never stopped doubting.
With love staring us in the face we doubt its sincerity. With a paycheck in hand we fear or doubt whether it will be enough. With God’s words in our hearts we doubt whether His promises are really valid for us, in our lives.
From that first seed of doubt planted in the Garden of Eden has sprouted this ubiquitous and pervasive tree that squelches and shadows every area of our lives.
“Has God said…?” asks the voice of doubt. Then we have another choice. We can heed the voice and continue to doubt the very essence of God or we can shout back.
“Yes! God HAS said that I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus! Yes! God has said that He has a purpose and a plan for my life! Yes! God has said that my worth is far above rubies!”
As I read the opening chapters of the Bible I am overwhelmed by God’s overflowing mercy. Despite the reality that at every step, humanity failed to trust His goodness, failed to trust His love, failed to obey His commandments, failed to heed His warnings; still He continues to invest in us. He continues to strive with us, to enable us to become all that He knows we are capable of becoming. And surely He knows all that we are capable of becoming, for it was His masterful hands which fashioned us. He never ceases helping us reach for the relationship for which we were created.
We can doubt and fuss and fight, but His mercies are new every morning just the same and He will never give up on us.
With love staring us in the face we doubt its sincerity. With a paycheck in hand we fear or doubt whether it will be enough. With God’s words in our hearts we doubt whether His promises are really valid for us, in our lives.
From that first seed of doubt planted in the Garden of Eden has sprouted this ubiquitous and pervasive tree that squelches and shadows every area of our lives.
“Has God said…?” asks the voice of doubt. Then we have another choice. We can heed the voice and continue to doubt the very essence of God or we can shout back.
“Yes! God HAS said that I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus! Yes! God has said that He has a purpose and a plan for my life! Yes! God has said that my worth is far above rubies!”
As I read the opening chapters of the Bible I am overwhelmed by God’s overflowing mercy. Despite the reality that at every step, humanity failed to trust His goodness, failed to trust His love, failed to obey His commandments, failed to heed His warnings; still He continues to invest in us. He continues to strive with us, to enable us to become all that He knows we are capable of becoming. And surely He knows all that we are capable of becoming, for it was His masterful hands which fashioned us. He never ceases helping us reach for the relationship for which we were created.
We can doubt and fuss and fight, but His mercies are new every morning just the same and He will never give up on us.
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