KEY PRINCIPLES IN THIS MESSAGE:
If we have the Lord, we have everything, including opportunities to live in His joy and gladness each and every day we wake up.
The spiritual life can be arduous at times, only because we get in the way and first need to struggle through things before He can reveal Himself to us in greater clarity.
Every day we wake up, we believers have the God-given RIGHT to be glad, being adopted by the God of the Universe! Because we are “in Christ Jesus” forevermore!
It’s when we remember who we are “in Christ” that we brighten up and are properly cheerful. Because the source of our gladness is HIM!!
“The Attributes of God: A Journey into the Father’s Heart”, by A.W.Tozer
Why were we created? Was it that we deserved to be created? How can nothing deserve something? There was a time when there was no human race. How therefore could a human race that hadn’t existed deserve something? How could a man that wasn’t yet created earn anything or pile up any merit? It couldn’t be so. God out of His goodness created us. Why were we not destroyed when we sinned? The only answer is that God of His goodness spared us. The cordial, kind-intentioned God spared us.
“The Attributes of God: A Journey into the Father’s Heart”, by A.W.Tozer
Why would God the Eternal Son bleed for us? The answer is, out of His goodness and lovingkindness. “Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings” (Psalm 36:7). Why would God forgive me when I’ve sinned and then forgive me again and again? Because God out of His goodness acts according to that goodness and does what His loving heart dictates that He do.
Do you see what a loving Father we have; Who chose to be good to us completely out of His own goodness?!
We mustn’t let our happiness depend upon ourselves, or what we possess. It rightly can only depend upon Him, our loving Creator and Savior.