OUTLINE:
The Sphere of God
Blog – 4/9/21
Guarantees to Hang Your Hat On
- God loves you
- Salvation is eternal (once saved, always saved)
- Christ rose from the dead
- Believers are fundamentally changed at salvation
Things that are NOT guaranteed
- Your lifestyle, earthly blessings
- Others will love you, or even like you
- Your good health
- This church/pastor
Self-Induced Misery
It’s when we think we have the RIGHT to demand such things as permanent blessings that we place ourselves in bondage to poor expectations!
Your joy is intrinsic to your abiding in the sphere of God’s love.
Jas 1:22 [Amplified]
But prove yourselves doers of the word [actively and continually obeying God’s precepts], and not merely listeners [who hear the word but fail to internalize its meaning], deluding yourselves [by unsound reasoning contrary to the truth].
Our Joy Made Full
God never says that we are to derive our joy from temporal blessings. That is a worldly trap. Our joy is transcendent! (Col 3:1-10).
Transcendence
When you mature to the point, spiritually, that your joy is divorced from temporal blessings, then you are delivered from the self-induced prison that most Christians seem to live in.
Your joy is intrinsic to your abiding in the sphere of God’s love.
Job 1:21b-22
The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
Being “In Love”
There’s no better place to be, for you or for others, than abiding in the sphere of God’s love! (e.g. Jn 15: 11-14)