Our Heavenly Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are nuts about us. In
fact, "The Spirit of God whets our appetite by giving us a taste of
what's ahead. He puts a little of heaven in our hearts so that we'll
never settle for less." 2 Corinthians 5:5 (MSG) In addition, "What a God
we have! And how fortunate we are to have him, this Father of our Master
Jesus! Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we've been given a
brand-new life and have everything to live for." 1 Peter 1:3 (MSG) This
is how much our Heavenly Father loves us: "I (Jesus) came down from
heaven not to follow my own whim but to accomplish the will of the One
who sent me." John 6:38 (MSG) Jesus left heaven for us! Wow. There is no
way our Father will ever abandon us! If His son willingly died for us so
that we could experience eternity in the Kingdom of our Father,
"Nothing", I repeat "Nothing could separate us from our Heavenly
Father!"
There are times, however, when we feel down. It's easy
in such circumstances for us to feel lonely and sometimes to even feel
abandoned; but this is just not true. Nothing can separate us from our
Father! The evil one, however, will do anything to try and make us
believe differently. Who should we believe?
I had a hint, just a
hint of how much God loves us while we were in Garray, Spain. We were
heading to a place where we could explore an ancient Roman settlement.
Unfortunately, we had no idea where it was located, and our GPS was
absolutely of no help. We saw a large parking place ahead, and we
decided to try our nearly-nonexistent Spanish to ask someone for help.
"Disculpe. Donde es..." The man smiled big at me, and he gave me the
directions in Spanish. Fortunately he used lots of gestures, and thanks
to my Father, I understood what he said. I thanked him profusely,
returned to the car, and relayed the information to my wife who was
driving.
As she headed for the main road, my new Spanish friend
was waiting for us. He pointed out the direction we should turn at the
next intersection. After all, he knew we were foreigners and he couldn't
be sure we had understood his message, so he went out of his way to make
certain we went on the right road, even though we were total strangers,
he cared for us.
Our Father constantly shows us the way. After
all, didn't Jesus say: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6 (NIV) He doesn't only
know the way, He is the way. He, too, went out of his way to show us
"the" way! Why should we worry when our Heavenly Father loves us so
completely?
By the way, the Roman settlement was quite
impressive, and we enjoyed our visit!
Rob Chaffart
I Will Show You the Way. Grace from the Book of Romans (8:38-39)
Today's Bible Verse:
"I'm absolutely convinced that nothing-nothing living or dead,
angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or
unthinkable-absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because
of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us." Romans 8:38-39
I Will Show You the Way. Grace from the Book of Romans (8:38-39)
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