A lot of people find it hard to personally apply “For God so loved the world ...” to themselves. Sadly, they have bought into the devil’s lie that they aren’t important enough to be singled out for blessing from among the billions on earth. But they seem to forget that the same God who singled out Abraham, Moses, David, Mary, etc. for his good pleasure can choose anyone he pleases.

How do I know that God thinks you are special? Jesus Christ died for you. Because of the heavenly Father’s love for the world, He sent His Son to die on the cross as a sacrifice for the sins of everyone living in the past, present, or future. None of us deserve the Father’s care and protection, but thankfully, deserving isn’t the basis for His love. In fact, God’s very nature is love, which He demonstrated through Christ’s death “while we were yet sinners”.

God cares so much for His children that He gives each one a place in His plan for the world. Believers are gifted with the talents and attributes needed to carry out His purpose. However, Christians who consider themselves exempt from His love aren’t looking for the opportunities He sends. They are too distracted by Satan’s lying voice.

The Lord loves you. He says so again and again in the Scriptures. But don’t take my word for it. Read His Word for yourself and see how much He cares.

Ephesians 1:4-5
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

John 15:16
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Romans 8:28-30
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Romans 5:8
But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

1 John 4:13
And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us

IT IS WELL. GOD BLESS

yommyuk:


A lot of people find it hard to personally apply “For God so loved the world ...” to themselves. Sadly, they have bought into the devil’s lie that they aren’t important enough to be singled out for blessing from among the billions on earth. But they seem to forget that the same God who singled out Abraham, Moses, David, Mary, etc. for his good pleasure can choose anyone he pleases.

How do I know that God thinks you are special? Jesus Christ died for you. Because of the heavenly Father’s love for the world, He sent His Son to die on the cross as a sacrifice for the sins of everyone living in the past, present, or future. None of us deserve the Father’s care and protection, but thankfully, deserving isn’t the basis for His love. In fact, God’s very nature is love, which He demonstrated through Christ’s death “while we were yet sinners”.

God cares so much for His children that He gives each one a place in His plan for the world. Believers are gifted with the talents and attributes needed to carry out His purpose. However, Christians who consider themselves exempt from His love aren’t looking for the opportunities He sends. They are too distracted by Satan’s lying voice.

The Lord loves you. He says so again and again in the Scriptures. But don’t take my word for it. Read His Word for yourself and see how much He cares.

Ephesians 1:4-5
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

John 15:16
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Romans 8:28-30
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Romans 5:8
But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

1 John 4:13
And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us

IT IS WELL. GOD BLESS

A father places a bottle of poisonous pills on the table within their reach. He then tells the children not to take the pills or else they would die. The children who are too young to understand the gravity of death, climb on the table and share the poisonous pills. When he comes back, he finds his children unconscious, possibly dead. Is that father a loving father? Is he innocent when it comes to the possible death of his children?
Now how about applying that to God in the case of the garden of Eden and see how loving God is. You can exonerate the father in the story above by saying that he didn't have any foreknowledge of his children's choice. You can use the fact that we imperfect humans make mistakes, you can't make an excuse for God. Godis omniscient and knows the beginning from the end. Therefore he knew the consequences for his actions. He KNEW that man would eat the tree, yet he put it there. He created man in such a way that man was gullible enough to be deceived by a talking snake. He KNEW the future that awaited his 'children' if he put this tree there. Do you think that God is truly innocent in all this? Also, remember that it was God that created Satan knowing fully well the monster that Satan would become. God know all this before hand and yet went on with his plan and you say that he is loving?

jadeus:


A father places a bottle of poisonous pills on the table within their reach. He then tells the children not to take the pills or else they would die. The children who are too young to understand the gravity of death, climb on the table and share the poisonous pills. When he comes back, he finds his children unconscious, possibly dead. Is that father a loving father? Is he innocent when it comes to the possible death of his children?
Now how about applying that to God in the case of the garden of Eden and see how loving God is. You can exonerate the father in the story above by saying that he didn't have any foreknowledge of his children's choice. You can use the fact that we imperfect humans make mistakes, you can't make an excuse for God. Godis omniscient and knows the beginning from the end. Therefore he knew the consequences for his actions. He KNEW that man would eat the tree, yet he put it there. He created man in such a way that man was gullible enough to be deceived by a talking snake. He KNEW the future that awaited his 'children' if he put this tree there. Do you think that God is truly innocent in all this? Also, remember that it was God that created Satan knowing fully well the monster that Satan would become. God know all this before hand and yet went on with his plan and you say that he is loving?

Romans 9:19-20
One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[h] 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

God, as sovereign Lord and Proprietor of all, dispenses his gifts or favours to his creatures with perfect wisdom, but by no rules or methods of proceeding that we are acquainted with. The time when we shall exist, the country where we shall live, our parents, our constitution of body and turn of mind; these, and numberless other circumstances, are doubtless ordered with perfect wisdom, but by rules that lie quite out of our sight.But God's methods of dealing with us, as our Governor and Judge, are dearly revealed and perfectly known; namely, that he will finally reward every man according to his works: "He that believeth shalt be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned."

Go figure bro

If God says we are all special. That means none of us are special.

lepasharon:
If God says we are all special. That means none of us are special.

If I say that there are 7 females in that house, does that make any of the 7 less or more female.

Stop contradicting yourself sis.