In what’s likely the oldest book in the Bible, the book of Job, we read, “For man is born for difficulty, as sparks fly upward”. Now there is a statement we want to teach our youngsters and grandkids, beginning today. The message they solidly hear is that God has nothing apart from contentment and accomplishment in store for them if they will trust their lives to Him.

surprisingly, while scraping sores from his sick and pain-racked body, Job asked, “Shall we indeed accept good from God and not adversity?” He made that statement replying to his other half’s recommendation to “curse God and die.” She too was damaged from the loss of her kids and the anguish of watching her hubby suffer so extraordinarily.

( as a young evangelist, I came down too hard on Job’s other half.

She required God’s point of view on her agony. ) It was when her man witnessed how deep her grief was that he replied as he did. He wanted her to notice that God isn’t a heavenly bellboy, delivering only nice and comforting things to our door. When tough times happen you’ll find scores of newly released titles querying how a loving God could be so unfair and unjust. It is simple to be confused in one’s experience of God. As with Job and Paul, He continues to permit suffering to form us into humble, helpful servants.

Throw one of us in a dungeon and we wish to talk to our barrister. Fight the enticement to reconsider God just because hard times come. 

Paul wrote with pressure, “I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His dominion : evangelise the word ; be prepared in season and out of season ; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction”.to paraphrase, stick with the evangelizing plan God has guaranteed to praise and use.

Don’t try to be so creative and lovable that people miss the truth. No requirement for incomprehensible and mad substitutes that entertain but barely convict the lost and edify the saved. Will you notice something here? This exhortation isn’t addressed to the hearer, it’s for the spokesperson. The person that is to try this is the one announcing the message.be in a position to do it in season and out of season. Don’t stand up straight and commence with an apology that you did not quite have satisfactory time to prepare. That doesn’t wash.” And do so faithfully—when it’s convenient and when it is not.

Unfortunately, in a shocking number of churches today, God’s folks are being told what they need to hear instead of what they have to hear. They’re being fed warmed milk, not solid beef. A watered-down gospel may attract big crowds ( for some time ), but it has no unending impact. I’ve not been capable of finding any place in the Scriptures where God expresses the least bit or worry for drawing numbers. Gratifying the curious itching ears of our postmodern audiences is an exercise in futility.

Candidly , I am planning to continue doing exactly that, by God’s grace, till the day He calls me home. And I believe there’s a fast-increasing number of followers who long for nutritive messages based mostly on the Word of God, not human opinion. The world urgently wants more Christians with the fervor and religion of Paul.

Will you be one of them? Will you respond the charge? If this is the case there’s no finer time than now to start. Jesus asserted, “Go and make followers of all states and I am going to be with you” ( Matthew 28:19-20 NIV ). And by the grace of God, go do it.

Because Jesus is alive, we’ve got the amazing confidence that God is actively concerned in our life. We watch Him work in our hearts and in the lives of other folks. And we’ve got the certainty He has forgiven us of our sins.

Jesus took the penalty we merited, and as we avail ourselves of the cleaning He offers ( one John nineteen ), we experience a replenished sense of fellowship with Him. On the other hand, folks who decide to live without Christ do their own work, not His.

Similarly , they consider their own will, not the Lord’s and spend their time doing what they deem best without giving God an idea.
When they approach death, they think everything will somehow be all right. But folk who haven’t trusted Jesus Christ will end their earthly existence without joy or guarantee.

Having missed God’s specific, private purpose for their life, they’re going to realize that all their cash, status, and notability is like sand – valueless. It’s silly to think that God will make an exception because we’ve been good or done our best. He offers us a free gift of the Holy Spirit so we can enjoy peace and contentment, even in tough times. The abounding life He offers flows over the physical and time-bound constraints of this world into perpetuity – but it is accessible only thru His Son.

A standard problem today is that the majority don’t know the way to deal with conflict – nor do they know the source of real peace.

So we have quickly become a drugged society ; whether drugs are bought over the counter or in the street, the common goal is to flee from conflict. Jesus used the Greek word meaning “to bind together.” Scripturally, peace is the sense of wholeness or inner completeness that brings stability to an individual’s walk, regardless of what is transpiring. Jesus spoke not of peace that comes today and goes tomorrow, but rather of prevailing – that is, undefeatable – peace. The key to enduring peace is present in a relationship. If you need peace that is everlasting, you want to form a relationship with Jesus Christ. We, too, can taste the oneness that He and the Dad experienced.

When the Lord announces, “My peace I give to you,” he’s not referring to a loan. His peace is a free present, available to just about every one of His kids. If we shall focus our attention on Christ, he’s going to give us perfect peace. ( Isaiah 26:3 ) That does not mean we are impervious to unexpected shocks – occasional times when we are thrown off balance by circumstances. But the power of the Lord’s prevailing peace is sufficient to hold us thru anything He permits us to experience.