God Is Not Like Our Parents

When I was a kid, my mama had this habit of using God to correct my
behavior.
She would say, "If you do this bad thing again, God will punish you! And He will
send you to hell! But if you are good, He will reward you."

Those words had kept me fearful for years in my life,
thinking that God is really fierce.

I tried to fix myself, read articles/ books on how to improve my whole being,
went to church with that reasons but to no avail...

I ended up staying away from Him for sooooooo long!
(Yes. wasted years.)

Little did I know, that I judged God wrongly.
I felt He is like my parents who everytime I committed mistakes and
acted badly He would whip me out of my confusions and reprimand me.

Somehow it affected me spiritually.
and living thinking that we have a very fierce God was not so
healthy for me.

TODAY!!!

I have come to know the TRUTH that God is not the way I thought He is.

He loves me..

He loves you..

..and that's even if you sin or not..

and everyone of us in this world!

The proof?

Because He gave up His son , Jesus Christ for us to be our sacrifice.

That even if we sin or fail in our lives, He can still see us righteous
through Jesus!

Jesus has become our shield.

Can I not rest in this assurance that God has given to us?

Of course now I can fully rest!

Now, I am free!!

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
(John 3:16)


Pls. read on...

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The King Is Not Angry With You


Proverbs 19:12
12The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

The Bible tells us that the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. (1 Peter 5:8) But have you ever wondered why he acts like a roaring lion?

It has something to do with a lion’s roar. In the Bible, the roaring of a lion speaks of the king’s wrath — “The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion”. So when the devil walks about like a roaring lion, he is trying to give you the impression that the King is angry with you. And when you believe that God is angry with you, the devil knows that he has got you.

When you think that God is angry or displeased with you, you will not be confident of His love toward you. Instead, you will expect and fear punishment from Him. And you will want to stay away from Him because you do not wish to incur His wrath any further.

But the truth is that God is not angry with you, even when you fail or blow it, because all your sins have already been judged in the body of His Son at the cross. As the Lamb of God, Jesus became your burnt offering. That is why He said, “I thirst.” (John 19:28)

Those who heard Him say that at Calvary that day thought that His thirst was physical. Actually, His thirst was spiritual because He was being “burnt” by the fire of God’s wrath. He was being judged for our sins. His body exhausted all of God’s wrath until every claim of God’s holiness was satisfied and His wrath appeased!

Now, there is a law called “the law of double jeopardy”, which states that the same crime cannot be tried twice. Today, the fire of God’s wrath will never fall on you as a believer because it has already fallen on His Son at the cross. He judged your sins then, but in the body of His Son.

So right now, you are not under the King’s wrath but His favor. And His favor rains down on you like dew on the grass every morning!

Source:
Pastor Joseph Prince
New Creation Church
www.newcreation.org.sg