A Treasured Possession (Part 2)
We have done nothing to impress God that He would choose us. But because He has chosen to pour out His grace on us, we are called to obey, but also obey in joy.
James Hammack is a regular contributor to The Rope. He also is digital services manager for The Alabama Baptist/TAB Media. He also serves as worship pastor at Sovereign Grace Church, Prattville. He and his wife, Alicia, have three children.
We have done nothing to impress God that He would choose us. But because He has chosen to pour out His grace on us, we are called to obey, but also obey in joy.
Because of what God has done, we are to respond in joyful obedience as we receive and use His blessings for His glory, for our good, and for the good of those around us.
So let us see the great power that the LORD used against our sin, let us fear him, let us believe in the LORD and in Christ our Savior.
When God is set on saving His people, no one can change the plan. When God sent His Son, Jesus, to be born a man of a virgin, live the perfect life that we couldn’t, and die the death that we deserve bearing the full wrath of God towards sin, God secured His people.
Speaking truth even in love is not always received well. Pharaoh didn’t receive it well from Moses. And it led to suffering. But we are called to endure.
God wants to reorient our minds and hearts around how He uses suffering for His glory. He wants us to hope in the middle of suffering.
God desires that we experience the fullness of joy in Him by setting our eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t put your faith and hope in Jesus, you won’t know the fullness of His joy either.
When we gather as a church, we sing songs that remind us and celebrate who God is and what He has done. I know that we often bring hardship into the gathering — hurt, difficulties. But are you allowing those things to overshadow your joy or are you fighting for your joy to overshadow those things?
We have done nothing to impress God that He would choose us. But because He has chosen to pour out His grace on us, we are called to obey, but also obey in joy.
Because of what God has done, we are to respond in joyful obedience as we receive and use His blessings for His glory, for our good, and for the good of those around us.
So let us see the great power that the LORD used against our sin, let us fear him, let us believe in the LORD and in Christ our Savior.
When God is set on saving His people, no one can change the plan. When God sent His Son, Jesus, to be born a man of a virgin, live the perfect life that we couldn’t, and die the death that we deserve bearing the full wrath of God towards sin, God secured His people.
Speaking truth even in love is not always received well. Pharaoh didn’t receive it well from Moses. And it led to suffering. But we are called to endure.
God wants to reorient our minds and hearts around how He uses suffering for His glory. He wants us to hope in the middle of suffering.
God desires that we experience the fullness of joy in Him by setting our eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t put your faith and hope in Jesus, you won’t know the fullness of His joy either.
When we gather as a church, we sing songs that remind us and celebrate who God is and what He has done. I know that we often bring hardship into the gathering — hurt, difficulties. But are you allowing those things to overshadow your joy or are you fighting for your joy to overshadow those things?
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