Anette deler..
..ukas tanker!
Denne gangen fikk jeg lyst til å legge ved en herlig og oppmuntrende tekst jeg fikk i innboksen min for ikke så lenge siden. Hver uke abonnerer jeg på daglig undervisning av en herlig predikant som heter Bayless Conley. Dette hadde han å si for litt siden (på engelsk:)
John 10:10-11 gives us a great truth,
“The thief does not come except to steal,
and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and
that they may have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good
shepherd gives His life for the sheep.”
Is your concept of God that He is good sometimes,
but not all the time? That sometimes He is blessing you; but other
times, He is the source of your troubles? If so, I want to put that
notion out of your heart and mind today.
Jesus came to give us abundant life, while the
devil, the thief, wants to steal, kill, and destroy. God is always a
good God, and the devil is always a bad devil.
I remember, as a young Christian, I ran into
another new convert in the park one day. He looked troubled, so I asked
him what was up. He told me he was sick and had just received some bad
news as well. Then he went on to tell me that he was at a Bible study
the day before and they told him that God was doing all of these things
to him.
It had shaken him to think that God was the source
of his troubles, and that He was responsible for all the troubles in
his life.
A lot of people tend to think that way, but it is just wrong. God is good all the time. The Bible says in James 1:17,
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from
above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no
variation or shadow of turning.
There is not the slightest degree of variation in
this. God is good. And the gifts He gives are good and perfect gifts. I
am glad they don't just stay in heaven. God sees to it that they make
their way down to you and me.
God is good... all the time.
Bayless Conley
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