Posted:
04 Feb 2012 02:10 AM PST
There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.
When God speaks of being cut off, He means we will not have reason to lose hope as so man others feel who do not have God on their side. Lots of teachers like to talk about us all being loved by God, which is true, however, Jesus said, "whoever is not for me is against me". So we can be enemies of God without even feeling hostile, maybe even attending church. The deciding factor that our Lord said is to "abide in me, and I in you". To abide means to dwell with, stay with, to be of the same mind.
We must put on the mind of Christ, having our minds renewed daily to cleanse us from the carnality and tendency towards wanting to be against God. A fresh filling of the Spirit of God who actually indwells the true believer, is our only hope of doing anything good, because it is God who is doing it through us as we ask Him to. His mercy is fresh every morning.
He is a God of another chance. On our own, when we fail to put on Christ in the morning, we are no different than the unbeliever as many of us have seen in ourselves and others all too often.
When God speaks of being cut off, He means we will not have reason to lose hope as so man others feel who do not have God on their side. Lots of teachers like to talk about us all being loved by God, which is true, however, Jesus said, "whoever is not for me is against me". So we can be enemies of God without even feeling hostile, maybe even attending church. The deciding factor that our Lord said is to "abide in me, and I in you". To abide means to dwell with, stay with, to be of the same mind.
We must put on the mind of Christ, having our minds renewed daily to cleanse us from the carnality and tendency towards wanting to be against God. A fresh filling of the Spirit of God who actually indwells the true believer, is our only hope of doing anything good, because it is God who is doing it through us as we ask Him to. His mercy is fresh every morning.
He is a God of another chance. On our own, when we fail to put on Christ in the morning, we are no different than the unbeliever as many of us have seen in ourselves and others all too often.
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