I
recently did a memorial service for man in our community. I didn’t know the man
and had only very little connection with his family. Jesus let me to talk about
what he wanted the family to know and understand in that moment of grief. When
I had finished the service and looked over it again, what I had shared was
grace.
God
wants you to experience His grace. To do that, we have to know some things and
believe them and live based on them.
You
have to know and believe that God loves you.
Jeremiah
31:3
The
Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore,
I have continued My faithfulness to you.
God
loves you. God doesn’t love the mass of humanity. That is how I used to see
that truth. God loves us individually and intimately. It took me many, many,
many years to believe that God loves Joe.
Raise the Roof and
Remove the Walls
is knowing and believing that God loves me.
You
have to know and believe that nothing can ever separate you from God’s love.
Romans
8:37-39
No,
it all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I
am sure that neither death not life, nor angels nor demons, nor things present
nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in
creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our
Lord.
Jesus
not only loves you, but He guarantees that nothing in all creation, visible or
invisible, heavenly or earthly will be able to separate His love from you.
Jesus does not want us to doubt His love for you for even a second.
Raise the Roof and
Remove the Walls
is living in the reality of Jesus’ love every day.
You
have to know and believe that Jesus will never abandon you.
Hebrews
13:5
I
will never leave you nor forsake you.
Jesus
will never leave you, ignore you, or turn His back on you. Jesus died for you.
Nothing can ever force Him to abandon you. Jesus is willing and able to walk
through anything that occurs to us in this life.
Raise the Roof and
Remove the Walls
is knowing that Jesus is with us always and living based on that truth.
You
have to know and believe that God has a plan for your life.
Jeremiah
29:11
“For
I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans for welfare and not
for evil, to give a future and a hope.”
The
plans of God for you are:
For
Your Good
To
Give You a Future
To
Give You Hope
God
is for you and not against you so His plans for you are always for your good.
Raise the Roof and
remove the Walls
is to experience God’s good plans for you.
You
have to know and believe that God wants you to experience the gift of eternal
life.
John
3:16
For
God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes
in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
Jesus
wants you to spend eternity with Him in heaven. In 2 Peter 3:9 we are told that
it is not God’s will for any to perish but that all should come to repentance.
God does not want any person to die and go into an eternity separated from Him.
Raise the Roof and
Remove the Walls
is knowing that we will spend eternity with Jesus in heaven.
God’s
love, the inability for anything to separate you from that love, the assurance
that Jesus will never abandon you, the good plans that Jesus has for you, and
the eternity that is available to us with Jesus is all true because of God’s
grace.
In
God’s Grace Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls,
Joe
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