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Trust God To Set Things Right ~
Series
Note ~ In just the single chapter of Romans 12 the
Apostle Paul gave believers a list of 39 things which are part of the Christian
life which pleases God. This chapter is
crying out saying, “If you name Jesus
Christ as your Savior then please act like a Christian!” It is Paul’s “To Do List” for us. The key principle is that while you and I
cannot change God’s character (who He
really is) we have the clear potential to damage His reputation (what others think He is).
Scripture
to Meditate On
~ “Beloved, do not avenge
yourselves, but rather give place to
wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says
the Lord” (Romans 12:19).
Comment ~ God
is the only righteous judge and one day He will bring justice and make all
things right. The Apostle Paul
understood this and could say, “There is laid up for me the crown of
righteousness, which the Lord, the
righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also
to all who have loved His appearing” (2 Timothy 4:8).
Related
Passages ~ “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall
enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord,
have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done
many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you;
depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” (Matthew 7:21-23).
“And He said to them, ‘Strive to enter through the narrow
gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. When once the Master of the house has risen
up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying,
‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know
you, where you are from,’ then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your
presence, and You taught in our streets.’
But He will say, ‘I tell you I do
not know you, where you are from. Depart
from Me, all you workers of iniquity.’
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves
thrust out. They will come from the east
and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God. And indeed there are last who will be first,
and there are first who will be last” (Luke 13:23-30).
~
Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT
LIFE NOW
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