Believing in God and His promises and His Love...

Believing in God and His promises and that He loves you, cares for you and has only the best for you is difficult work for some people. They may not have come to faith yet… that’s the first step and then believing is the work that follows… Not only believing in the truth of God’s Word for yourself but for others as well.

There is no greater work that to believe in the One God Sent… John 6:29. Why is that and why is such work so difficult for some people? Because, of the miraculous sings Jesus did in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration, many began to trust in him… But Jesus didn’t trust them because he knew human nature… No one needed to tell Him what mankind is really like ~ John 2: 23-25.

Yes, miraculous signs should make it easy to believe in Jesus but even when He walked on the earth and such things were happening… not all people believed. Why? Because, they knew what they were and could not imagine that Jesus was there to change them … radically!

John 3:18-21 ~ “There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.”

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works (believing, thanking and praising God in all things) and glorify your Father in heaven ~ Matthew 5:16.

Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show it by his good life, his works in meekness of wisdom ~ James 3:13. That means you should never be wise in your own eyes (including the world’s eyes). Seek the Kingdom of God first, thank and praise God… show others that you are devoted to God first and foremost. That you do trust in Him because you believe in Him.

SO, Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works (believing, thanking and praising God in all things) ~ Hebrews 10:24.

Indeed, may we find ways to motivate one another in these times… Help someone in their unbelief… by thanking and praising God in such times and displaying your belief outwardly in your love of God and what He did for you… because Its really A Call to Persevere…

So…Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds. Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.…Hebrews 10:23-25

Why encourage one another? Because of God's Mercy to Us…
He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.…Titus 3:5-7.

We need to pour out this mercy to others, God’s love, the love shown to the Samaritan woman, the love shown to the man in the ditch by the good Samaritan. The love shown to the prodigal son…

Pour out to your neighbors, family, and your children so that they too can see God’s love in you and in their lives.  It truly is a call to preserve… we can find this call throughout the Bible, in the Old Testament in 1 Kings 17 when Elijah came to the woman and her son who thought they had nothing left… and in 2nd Kings 4 another woman who thought she had nothing left until Elisha came encouraging her to preserve and then she filled oil jar after oil jar…

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens… Job 38:37.

“So tell them, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: May all your jars be filled with wine.’ And they will reply, ‘Of course! Jars are made to be filled with wine!’ Jeremiah 13:12.

We now have this light shining in our hearts, we have this treasure in earthen containers, so that the extraordinary greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves…2 COR 4:7.