""That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection - Philippians 3:10
You may be a disappointed Christian, because of some dreadful failure in your life. I want to say to you today that the intention of God is not that His children should be disappointed.
Do you read anywhere in the New Testament that God's intention is that you and I should be depressed and disappointed and cast down and dismayed? I do not read such.
Instead, I read a note of confidence coming again and again - "I can do all things through Christ." "This is the victory" - not maybe, or ought to be, but "This is the victory that over cometh the world.' "Nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God.' An amazing note of confidence runs through all the Word of God.
It is not the intention of God that we should be disappointed. Provision is made for our confidence: the power of His risen life.
Does any feel downcast to the point of despair because of some failure? Do not add to your sins the sin of under-estimating the measure of God's forgiveness, and having got the measure of God's forgiveness which has no limit, take this to your heart, disappointed, defeated, - it may be even disgraced - child of God: that you have resident within you "the power of His resurrection.' God can give no more that that. God has no more to give; and God gives this to every child of His. So we must be confident, not in ourselves, but in Him.
You may be a disappointed Christian, because of some dreadful failure in your life. I want to say to you today that the intention of God is not that His children should be disappointed.
Do you read anywhere in the New Testament that God's intention is that you and I should be depressed and disappointed and cast down and dismayed? I do not read such.
Instead, I read a note of confidence coming again and again - "I can do all things through Christ." "This is the victory" - not maybe, or ought to be, but "This is the victory that over cometh the world.' "Nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God.' An amazing note of confidence runs through all the Word of God.
It is not the intention of God that we should be disappointed. Provision is made for our confidence: the power of His risen life.
Does any feel downcast to the point of despair because of some failure? Do not add to your sins the sin of under-estimating the measure of God's forgiveness, and having got the measure of God's forgiveness which has no limit, take this to your heart, disappointed, defeated, - it may be even disgraced - child of God: that you have resident within you "the power of His resurrection.' God can give no more that that. God has no more to give; and God gives this to every child of His. So we must be confident, not in ourselves, but in Him.
