Do You Not Know

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Here's a great greeting for your next email!

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” who is always up to good!

There were so many wonderful tidbits and takeaways in a sermon our pastor gave a couple weeks ago that I continue nibbling on them. 

Consider this title:
“How to get through what you are growing through.”

“God’s comfort will always be greater than our pain.”

“Be a student not a victim.”

"Sorry = sympathy, but that is not comfort. 
Comfort = God standing beside you giving you the strength you need to cope.”

“God doesn’t waste your pain.”

“Satan hates for us to be in community.”

God highlighted II Corinthians 1:8 - 10  for me and spurred me on with a strong reminder to voice these reflections with others...

For we do not want you to be unaware. (Have you said that to anyone?)
On Him we have set our hope.

Those passages go along with some Do you not know passages God has been urging me to remember to bring into conversations with others.

Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,  Isaiah 40:21-22

Dear friends, I do not want you to be unaware of the depth of God’s love for you and the many ways He uses you to advance the kingdom and encourage your brothers and sisters in Christ, while at the same time bringing others to a saving knowledge of  Him.
You have value!

Set your hope on Him and remember he was with you in what happened in the past.  
Do you not know  (I know you do) that the God who has seen you through some horrific battles has your current battle on the verge of victory as well?  

In the midst of your battle and all the fiery darts being tossed your way, thank God you can say to others Do you not know our heavenly Father is full of mercy and grace overflowing.

The Song
"God of Mercy" By Brandon Camphor and One Way



 

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