God Wants What Is Best for Us
There are so many things that He could give us but He only wants to give us the good and perfect things. What God wants us to be Probably because we are just men we deliberately make up our minds to do things our God has beautiful plans for us.
We Often Forget That God Wants The Best For Us Anthony Gucciardi Ag Quote Anthony Words
God always knows whats best for us 100 of the time so we must learn to trust Him and not lean on our own understanding Prov.
. It means to be delivered out of danger and distress. From the scriptures I learned that what God gives us is good enough. Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written the days fashioned for me when as yet there were none of them. God expects the best life we can give Matthew 548 and Matthew 513-16. He wants to give us good gifts that are perfect for where we are the situations we are going through whats in our hearts where he wants us to go.
And Romans 88 says that those who are in the flesh cannot please God First God wants us to trust in His Son as Savior and Lord Philippians 2911. By virtue of dying for us he secures for us all things everything that serves our eternal good. God is for us not against us.
Instead He wants us to turn to Him and discover the depths of His love a love so great He allowed His Son to. If we are to provide the light of Jesus Christ in our lives we must give the best we can in the way we live our lives. Never in the history of mankind has God taken anything from one of His children without bringing in something better more beautiful more fulfilling.
The divine life of God transcends any human standard. It is fleshly effort. God wants that for you.
The promise is that it will work out for our best. God Wants The Very Best For Us. How precious also are Your thoughts to me O God.
Now if we can understand that it may take some of our spirit of defiance away motivate us to obey the commandments of God. Nevertheless the Lord knows the way of the righteous Psalm 16. I dont think it needs to be the best.
Be fruitful and become many fill the earth and subdue it. We have to realize again and again that God wants usHis believers who possess His lifeto live walk and do everything by His life. When he created the first humans Adam and Eve he placed them in a beautiful paradise the garden of Eden.
But boy is that hard to believe especially when our prayers are not met according to our expectations or time-frame. God is a compassionate God who loves us always gives those things which are best for us in our lives. What God wants for us is faith virtue knowledge self-control steadfastness godliness brotherly affection and love 2 Peter 157.
Does Scripture support this idea. The good the bad and the ugly. All things in this life serve our eternal good including affliction and.
We know that whatever happens to us always works out for our best because we are called by God and love Him Rom 828 but God never promises that all things will be good. The reason why He made us who we are is known to Him and He has specifically shaped. He not only knows what is best for you He wants you to have His best.
God cares for us For I know the thoughts I think toward you says the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you a future and a hope Jeremiah 2911. Gods going to do what God wants to do and Im one not intended for His blessing. Psalm 23 accents such truth.
The parable of the talents in Matthew 25 makes it clear that what abilities we have been given must be used in the very best ways possible. There are times when God takes things from us and other times when we pray for things we think we need and God does not give them to us. God wants the best for us is a common phrase by Christians but I struggle to identify with it.
God expects us to treat others the best way. And all these things are cultivated through the various difficult struggles of pursuing a resolve. God Does Not Want to Break Our Spirits.
So lets begin with this premise that God is a loving God and in fact does want the very best for us. And from His perspective the most deadly danger of all for us is sin. My heart is shattered and I cant believe what Im hearing.
Im not one of the elect he concludes. But nevertheless God is for us not against us. Im okay with it if thats the way its supposed to be.
I feel that too many Christians are taking the word best too literally. Just as refining removes the dross and impurities from metal so God strips us of the sin and the faults that keep us from being made whole. And in most cases what we believe is best for us actually would ruin us.
God s best is not something to fear. Yes He wants to see you forgiven set free. He stops for a bit then continues.
One day Gods action will prove to be for the benefit of us and for His kingdom. He wants to save you from the guilt the bondage the defilement of your sin. In fact God is very much for us and not against us.
He also knows our feelings and yet He doesnt reject us when we get upset at Him. Jehovah wants us to have the best life possible. Most of us have a hard enough time figuring out what we want to eat for dinner let alone figure out what God wants us to do with our lives.
35 because God always has our best interests in mind and for His greater purposes even when we dont have the wisdom to. He wants to free you from the things that really imperil your life. As I reflected on this truth God reminded me of the passage in Matthew 7.
If we truly believed this it would produce such rest. So our question this morning is What is it that this commandment prohibits. So when we live and act by the life of God our living actually far surpasses the highest moral or ethical standard.
Some churches extend the. Gods purpose is not to break our spirits but rather and for our good to break the stubbornness of our wills. I feel the same way.
Two verses that immediately come to mind are Psalm 374 Take delight in the LORD and He will give you the desires of your heart and John 1010 where Jesus says I have come in order that you might have lifelife in all its fullness. They believe that there is only one best option that God would provide. GOD KNOWS WHAT IS BEST FOR US.
But God loves us and He knows what is best for us even if its painful at the time. What God wants is really quite simple. We see only part of the picture but He sees the whole situation and His wisdom is far greater than ours.
All our service for God must flow from those two commands to love or it is not real service. Then God blessed them and God said to them.
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