Have you received your just desserts?
As a manager in a shop of about 30 people, I get to hear, nearly every day, how people feel they deserve much more than what they are getting. It is pretty interesting, some of these people are not assigned to me and often times the things they feel they deserve do not even have anything to do with their work for me. It seems to me that we all have some sense of entitlement. We all feel like the world owes us something just for gracing it with our presence. As I read through scripture, I realize how one sided this perspective is. In fact, whether we realize it or not, or whether we would admit it or not, we are abundantly blessed even in the darkest times of our life.
The truth as demonstrated through scripture is that because of our sinful natures, we deserve nothing of what we have received. Yet God, because of His amazing love, and by his awe-inspiring grace, has determined that He would not abandon His creation, but work to redeem or reconcile it unto Himself. He continues to sustain His creation even as we abuse and neglect it. He continues to provide through the creation for this world’s inhabitants even as they consistently reject His existence. He continues to forgive no matter how far from Him we seem to go.
As we focused on this issue at our last meeting, and in the days since, it has been impressed upon me to remember His grace, and remind you to remember all that you have been blessed with. Take a moment to do a mental inventory of your life. But do not stop at the physical and tangible blessings He has provided. Think about how you have come to be able to have those things. You may have worked for the money, but how did you come by your skills and abilities? How did you get the job that you have? Where would you be without Him? Who would you be if He had just abandoned us to our own ways? What would life be like if He totally abandoned this world? It scares me to think of what a world totally void of God's goodness could be like, but I think that it would be hell.
Recently, I heard someone share a testimony of how God had to take everything away so that she could come to understand that He was all she really needed. Oh, how I can relate to this. I thank God, because His grace truly is sufficient, and His love is absolutely unconditional.
Have you received your just desserts? Absolutely not, and we can thank God for that!
The truth as demonstrated through scripture is that because of our sinful natures, we deserve nothing of what we have received. Yet God, because of His amazing love, and by his awe-inspiring grace, has determined that He would not abandon His creation, but work to redeem or reconcile it unto Himself. He continues to sustain His creation even as we abuse and neglect it. He continues to provide through the creation for this world’s inhabitants even as they consistently reject His existence. He continues to forgive no matter how far from Him we seem to go.
As we focused on this issue at our last meeting, and in the days since, it has been impressed upon me to remember His grace, and remind you to remember all that you have been blessed with. Take a moment to do a mental inventory of your life. But do not stop at the physical and tangible blessings He has provided. Think about how you have come to be able to have those things. You may have worked for the money, but how did you come by your skills and abilities? How did you get the job that you have? Where would you be without Him? Who would you be if He had just abandoned us to our own ways? What would life be like if He totally abandoned this world? It scares me to think of what a world totally void of God's goodness could be like, but I think that it would be hell.
Recently, I heard someone share a testimony of how God had to take everything away so that she could come to understand that He was all she really needed. Oh, how I can relate to this. I thank God, because His grace truly is sufficient, and His love is absolutely unconditional.
Have you received your just desserts? Absolutely not, and we can thank God for that!
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