Thoughts for another day

Dec. 2, 2013.

Today's verse: 2 Cor. 3c, 4. God of all encouragement, who encourages us in our every affliction so that we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction with the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God. (NAB)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

When we’re down and out, there’s only One Who is our Friend; the One Who is interested in us so much and who loves us so much that He simply encourages us.  Despite the defeat, the trial, the tiredness and the exhaustion, God encourages all who have accepted Him as their God and who stand before Him, attentive to His Word and willing to listen to Him.  He is there as a pillar for every person who has lost the battle in the events that happened to him, but now with God as the pillar, the war will be won by him, for when the Lord Almighty is with you, who can stand against you.

Many may be the tribulations of the one who believes in God and worships Him, yet, no tribulation will be able to fell the child of God; for God’s Sovereign guarantee of protection is on Him.  One may not know the kind of protection God gives, for one may not even be aware, but every trouble that straddles the path of the believer, has to contend with the God he believes in and that God, the Abba Father, is Almighty.  He is the Creator and Sustainer of all; the Alpha and Omega and the Great Encourager and Enabler.  When God encourages and enables, who can discourage or disable?

But brothers and sisters, when God encourages us, and we’re able to stand up in His strength, then we must turn to our neighbor who has perhaps fallen because of the weight of his own troubles, and raise him up with the same encouragement God gives us.  In that we will reflect the glory of our God and proclaim His abundant love and mercy by which also He has prepared for us a Kingdom, where we will dwell with His Son and His Holy Spirit; for His Son laid down His life for us and redeemed us from the depths of hell and now in the encouragement we give others, we rejoice for we allow His Holy Spirit to demolish the ramparts of the devil and allow people to live lives in accord with His will, which He fashioned for us even before the foundation of the world.  Beautiful is our God.