Wednesday, March 27, 2013

In Christ, there are no "What ifs?"

"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want." (Psalm 23: 1)

The LORD -- that is the covenant name of God, the name that God gave to Moses when this shepherd in Midian wanted to know what he would call God when the enslaved Israelites asked who sent him.

The same Lord who made the universe, the same Lord who made you, the same Lord sent His own Son to die on the Cross for you:

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3: 16)

Eternal life does not leave out any other need that we may have:

"And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,

"But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life." (Mark 10: 29-30)
In Christ, God has covered all of our needs, so we do not need to worry, nor do we need to ask "What if?" about anything:

"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" (Romans 8: 31-32)

God wants us to see His Son as our shepherd:

"I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." (John 10: 11)

This shepherd has laid down his life not just to bring us from death to life, but that He may live His life through us:

"Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

"Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." (Hebrews 13: 20-21)

Trust in your Good Shepherd, as see every  "What if?" vanish in your life.

1 comment:

  1. The one thing I don't understand about this blog. Is why the biblical God and not the Koran, or Hindu god/s? What makes the bible god so special?

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