Basackwards or Fully Persuaded?
Do we really have the right perspective, dearly beloved? “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” At times we may think that we must convince God to love us, while He is trying to get us to believe that He does.
At times we may beg Him not to condemn us, while He declares there is no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus. We may plead with Him to forgive us, while He sent his Son to die for us and He forgives us by the riches of His grace. Do we beseech Him to heal us, while He says we were healed by the stripes laid on His Son? Do we implore Him to prosper us, while He says to acknowledge that He is the source of our sufficiency and He will supply our every need?
Why do we struggle at times to believe what He says? Because our adversary constantly orchestrates situations to tempt us not to believe Him, but instead to walk by our senses. He is a liar and a deceiver and his strategy is to convince us to believe what the situation dictates rather than what God says. He works arduously to make us double minded and doubt that God is faithful to His Word.
We need to listen to our Father and hold His Word in our hearts with believing confidence so that we can receive at His hand. Beloved, He freely gives us all things with Christ; believe it.
Believing is to have trust and confidence in what He says; that He is able and willing to perform His Word because He is faithful that promised. Believing is taking the Word of God literally and walking out on it.
Right believing is constantly knowing God’s power and presence are in you and with you in every situation. At times we get it basackwards and think we must convince God to keep His Word, while it is the good pleasure of His will to do as He said He would do. It seems we are the ones that may need persuading to take Him at His Word and to walk out on it.
We all have the same measure that He has dealt for us to believe – His Word. He is searching for those who will believe Him. He does not respect you any less than any other man; He respects those that believe Him.
Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Resist the slandering devil and he will flee from you. Resist him, being firm in the right way of believing.
God says to purify your heart if you are double-minded (a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.) Instead, be fully persuaded by persuading yourself with His Word. Beloved, trust Him to keep His Word; He is faithful that promised. We don’t need to persuade Him to keep His Word; we need to believe it.