God Is Always at Work Around Us

 

God Is Always at Work Around Us

 

In Genesis 1:1 we are told that God created the heavens & the earth. Then in the rest of Genesis 1 & Genesis 2 we are given the details of creation. But God did not just create the heavens & the earth & then abandon it & us to function on our own; He has been actively involved in human affairs throughout history. Because of sin we as humans have been separated from a close relationship with God. God is working in His creation to bring about redemption of those who are alienated from Him. He worked through Jesus to bring salvation to us.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about God working to bring salvation to us.

 

What has Jesus done to bring about salvation?

 

Colossians 2:13 says, “And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.”

 

Jesus’ death on the cross provides us with forgiveness. We were dead in our sin & we were made alive when Jesus forgave us our sins. We were dead because we were separated from God who is the life giver, but Jesus’ forgiveness makes us alive with Him.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about being forgiven by Jesus & made alive with Him eternally.

 

2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.”

 

Jesus was sinless & perfect, but He became guilty of our sin so that, as we surrender our lives to Jesus, we become the righteousness of God. It is important for us to become righteous because God cannot be in the presence of unrighteousness. So, Jesus’ death for us makes us righteous, not with a righteousness of our own, but with the righteousness of Jesus.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Wall is about being made righteous by Jesus.

 

1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

 

Jesus not only makes us righteous, but He cleanses us of all unrighteousness. That means that all my sins are gone, they do not exist anymore in the mind of God. That also means that those sins are no longer true of me & I am not defined by my old sins.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about being cleansed of all unrighteousness. 

 

2 Corinthians 5:18 says, “All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to Himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.”

 

Jesus reconciled us to Himself through His death on the cross. Reconciled means to make someone a friend again. We were not just separated from God by sin, but sin had made us enemies of God. Jesus made us friends with God again.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about being friends with God through Jesus’ death on the cross for our sin.

 

John 5:17 says, “But Jesus answered them, ‘My Father is working until now, and I am working.’”

 

Jesus worked through His death & resurrection to bring salvation to us. Jesus is still working to save the lost & to grow us as His disciples. When we see all the evil & destruction that is going on in the world, we may tend to lose hope. But don’t! Because Jesus is working & in the end He has the victory.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls,

Joe

 

 

 

In case you were wondering, I cannot post a devotion 666 so this is Devotion 667.