John Mulligan continued his lesson on “Timeless Truths - Building our hopes on things eternal.”
John’s first point was that God searches the depths of your soul. Absolutely no one knows us better than our Lord and Savior. Indeed, as we read in Jeremiah 1:5, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.” God knows our hearts, what we value and what we don’t. He knows when we’re being authentic and when we’re putting on a pretense. He will “...reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve” (Jeremiah 17:10).
As faithful servants, we WANT Him to search our hearts. We trust Him and we want Him to know us.
The second point is that God loves us to the core. He loves us even when he sees things that break His heart. People will see us differently after some event, and certainly judge us, but God will never turn His back on us, despite anything. He will be there to intervene on our behalf and guide us back onto His righteous path. Romans 8:31 tells us, “If God is for us, who can be against us?”
Further, in Romans 8:38-39, we learn this fundamental message, “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
God looks to restore us, to never abandon us, to see us through to the end, and will keep us near to Him always. Our commitment is to allow Him to love us enough to correct us when we falter.
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