Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Child of God.....You are Never a Failure in Gods Eyes.

Hebrews 12:1   Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doeth so easily best us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Hebrews 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

I want to say to every, truly blood washed child of God,   "You are never a failure in God's eyes!"

Yes, right now, you may have failed God, but in God's eyes you aren't looked upon as a failure.

When we sin, we fail others and God. But if we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9

We don't have to look far in the Bible to find that, in his own strength, man is a failure.

If you just look at the "so great a cloud of witnesses" that we are surrounded by. Men and women, just like you and I, individuals that failed God miserably in their own strength, but they were never a failure in the eyes of God!

He was still at work in their lives and God would bring them to the end of themselves in order to work His life and character in them.

It doesn't matter so much that you failed God, as it does that when you fail Him, you go quickly to Him for cleansing and His strength through repentance.

If you read the Bible at all, you will see many lives of God's chosen people that failed God. But God saw the end from the beginning.   Right now, you may be a child of God who doesn't even feel like that you are saved. 

Remember, God has given us all we need to overcome any sin or circumstance that may try to blind us of the great love and concern that He has for His church, His people.

Look at Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and David, just to mention a few, men who God saw them as what He had called them to be! They were far from being what God had said that they would be, but God would as they learned to look to Him, that He would make them into the vessels He could use.

In the New Testament, a fisherman named Peter was far fom where God had purposed from the foundations of the worlds to be. As a matter of fact, I'm  sure Peter after that third time that rooster crowed,  he was as low as a child of God could get!

But Jesus never told him he was a failure!  Jesus told him that he would fail but Jesus didn't say, nor did He believe  that Peter was a failure!

Jesus looked beyond Peter failure to after the day of Pentecost, a man totally looking unto Jesus!

Where are you looking today?


Are you going to look at your failure and stay in them?


Or are you going to look to Jesus for His strength and cleansing power of His blood?


"Child of God, you are not a failure in the eyes of God!"

        

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