Showing posts with label God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God. Show all posts
Sunday, October 4, 2015
hope for today
God has goodness (and lots of it) planned for you today. Do not accept the enemy's challenge to engage with other people's stuff? Instead, in everything, be determined to uncover the incredible goodness God has especially for you. Other people are not where we fix our gaze. When we fix our eyes on Jesus, we see Him. What is He? Patient, kind, loving, joyful, capable, merciful, full of grace... Those are attributes (and many more) of His goodness that He has planned for you!!! He has abundant life for you! All of Him in abundance is available for you today!! Ask Him to reveal who He wants to be for you today! So, wipe your hard drive of frustration, anger, sadness, self-pity, anxiety or whatever the enemy has used to engage you with other people's stuff. When we abide in any or all of those mindsets and not in Jesus Himself, we choose to live in our own personal hell on earth. Instead, be steadfast and determined to engage only with the goodness of God!!!
Thursday, July 3, 2014
CIV: Cara's Interpreted Version
After encouragement from friends and my man, I return to this place with something short and sweet.
There were two verses in Romans 6 that stuck out to me: "... you live under the freedom of God's grace. (v.14) ... the free gift of God is eternal life... (v.23)" And, Romans 5:17, "... all who receive [God's gracious gift] will live in triumph over sin and death."
When I did a word study, I found the following:
- free gift of God - the operation of grace (undeserved or divine favor)
- eternal life - Eternal life does not focus on the future per se, but rather on the quality of the age it relates to. Thus, believers live in "eternal life" right now, experiencing this quality of God's life now as a present possession.
So here's "Cara's Interpreted Version" of verse 23 in Romans 6:
... the operation of divine favor from God is experiencing the quality of God's life now as a present possession.
Now, lets put Romans 6:23 in the context of 6:14 and Romans 5:17:
When our lives operate under the influence of undeserved, divine favor from God, we experience the present realization of the quality of God's life as a tangible gift and are thus living triumphantly over sin and death! What freedom we have as children of God!
There were two verses in Romans 6 that stuck out to me: "... you live under the freedom of God's grace. (v.14) ... the free gift of God is eternal life... (v.23)" And, Romans 5:17, "... all who receive [God's gracious gift] will live in triumph over sin and death."
When I did a word study, I found the following:
- free gift of God - the operation of grace (undeserved or divine favor)
- eternal life - Eternal life does not focus on the future per se, but rather on the quality of the age it relates to. Thus, believers live in "eternal life" right now, experiencing this quality of God's life now as a present possession.
So here's "Cara's Interpreted Version" of verse 23 in Romans 6:
... the operation of divine favor from God is experiencing the quality of God's life now as a present possession.
Now, lets put Romans 6:23 in the context of 6:14 and Romans 5:17:
When our lives operate under the influence of undeserved, divine favor from God, we experience the present realization of the quality of God's life as a tangible gift and are thus living triumphantly over sin and death! What freedom we have as children of God!
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