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A Solid Foundation by Jerry Bridges
| Our God, is An Awesome God! |
“AWESOME GOD” for July/August 2010.
“God’s Overarching Love”
(Jesus said:) “I am with you always, to the very end of the age” Matthew 28:20. NIV
This is a promise for obedient disciples, and it is marvelously inclusive. Dr. Handley Moule, sometime
Anglican Bishop of Durham, England, and a noted Greek scholar, maintained that the always could
be paraphrased to mean, “I am with you all the days, all day long.” That means we can count on
Christ’s presence not only every day, but every moment of every day. Of the fact of His presence
there can be no doubt, for His Word cannot fail. What we need is to cultivate the sense of His
presence, every day, every hour, every moment.
Some years ago my wife, Ruth, had a terrible fall. She suffered a concussion, was unconscious for
nearly a week, broke her foot in five places, and injured her hip. When she regained consciousness
she found she had lost a great deal of her memory. What disturbed her most was that she had
forgotten so many of the Scriptures she had learned throughout the years. The verses of a whole
lifetime were more precious to her than all earthly possessions.
One night when she was praying, because she was so distressed, out of nowhere came the verse, “I
have loved thee with an everlasting love…” She has no recollection of ever memorizing this verse, but
the Lord brought it back to her. Gradually, other verses began to come back. But interestingly, while
she was still trying to recover her memory, she memorized Romans 8:31-39 and repeated those
verses over and over again.
I urge you to memorize this passage. Hide it away in your heart. When persecution, trouble, and
adversity arise, these verses will come back to you a thousand times, and remind you of God’s
overarching love personified in His Son, our Savior.
Because…”Our God is an Awesome God”---Jake
Adapted from: “Unto the Hills” by Billy Graham.
“God’s Overarching Love”
(Jesus said:) “I am with you always, to the very end of the age” Matthew 28:20. NIV
This is a promise for obedient disciples, and it is marvelously inclusive. Dr. Handley Moule, sometime
Anglican Bishop of Durham, England, and a noted Greek scholar, maintained that the always could
be paraphrased to mean, “I am with you all the days, all day long.” That means we can count on
Christ’s presence not only every day, but every moment of every day. Of the fact of His presence
there can be no doubt, for His Word cannot fail. What we need is to cultivate the sense of His
presence, every day, every hour, every moment.
Some years ago my wife, Ruth, had a terrible fall. She suffered a concussion, was unconscious for
nearly a week, broke her foot in five places, and injured her hip. When she regained consciousness
she found she had lost a great deal of her memory. What disturbed her most was that she had
forgotten so many of the Scriptures she had learned throughout the years. The verses of a whole
lifetime were more precious to her than all earthly possessions.
One night when she was praying, because she was so distressed, out of nowhere came the verse, “I
have loved thee with an everlasting love…” She has no recollection of ever memorizing this verse, but
the Lord brought it back to her. Gradually, other verses began to come back. But interestingly, while
she was still trying to recover her memory, she memorized Romans 8:31-39 and repeated those
verses over and over again.
I urge you to memorize this passage. Hide it away in your heart. When persecution, trouble, and
adversity arise, these verses will come back to you a thousand times, and remind you of God’s
overarching love personified in His Son, our Savior.
Because…”Our God is an Awesome God”---Jake
Adapted from: “Unto the Hills” by Billy Graham.
| “This is love for God: to obey His commands. And His commands are not burdensome…” 1John 5:3 |