I wondered, not sure if God was going to come through for me or not.
This lack of faith was quite disconcerting for me, I must say.
For the longest time, I used to believe that God was present to me only if I was thinking about Him.
But that is not how it works.
He is a God to me because of what His Son accomplished at the Cross.
God is for us not because of anything that we have done, but because of everything that He has accomplished at the Cross.
Consider the elements of the New Covenant:
"10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
"11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
"12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8:10-12)
WHhy is God a God for us?
It's all in verse 12?
"I will be merciful (more accurately, propitious) to your unrighteousness, and your sins and iniquities I will remember no more."
God has put away all our sins, and He did this through Christ Jesus!
For the longest time, I was convinced that God's presence in my life depended on my feelings, depended on my thoughts.
I had to feel a certain way, or I had to make sure that I was thinking about God all the time. It's insane that I had such overwhelming destructive thought processes, but that's the torture and pain that I went through.
Today, I recognize, I see Jesus, alive and full of love for me. I see God my Father, alive and full of love for me. I recognize today that He has been actively caring for me, caring about me all this time.
I so limited God. I did not see how rich, how good, how wonderful He is.
Jesus, thank you for the love that you have for me. Thank you, Father, that You are a God to me! Thank you that you have always been there for me, no matter what is happening. I cannot thank you enough.
"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31)
This "if" is not a conditional "if" based on something that we must do. It's a statement from one logical affirmation to the next.
God is for us! Therefore, who can be against us? Who indeed? Exactly,
