VB.049.DAILY DEVOTION – HOW TO HAVE HOPE FOR 2023

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VB.049.DAILY DEVOTION – HOW TO HAVE HOPE FOR 2023

HOW TO HAVE HOPE FOR 2023–EVEN WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE EVIL IS GROWING & TRUTH IS WANING!

Jan 1, 2023
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Here is a normal question we get as we train and teach the Next Generation: “Why does God ALLOW endless struggles in my life?”

This is such a good question. The answer frames all that we know, believe about, and act upon about God. Another student described a rectangle with “my problem” in it. Above the rectangle, God’s Holiness and Goodness, on the bottom is God’s Omnipotence, and on the side is God’s Omniscience. There was some discussion about the significance of each attribute. Since we currently face some special, but by no means unique, problems of a familial, spiritual, and personal nature, I wish you would repeat the discussion to give us the benefit of putting our own problems into this box.

With that introduction, we need to plunge into what may be the most useful of all of our lessons for our own lives and the lives of everyone we share life with. This element of learning to Trust Changeless Truths about God is what gives us stability through every season, struggle, and situation of life. Changeless Truths help us build our lives on the Rock. Our lesson is Lives that Reflect that we are: Trusting Changeless Truths About God. Psalm 18:2 reminds us: The Lord is my Rock.

GOD IS THE ROCK: We are invited to have our life anchored by the truth about God our Rock. This life anchored to truth only started at our salvation, because it never stops growing. We live each day walking by faith and resting upon the solid foundation of trusting our Changeless God.

Jesus came to reveal the Father to us. Jesus is the doorway to all that God has promised and revealed. Here are some of the most foundational of those truths about God that make for a very sure foundation:

First, His Eternity: (that God is seeing everything at once vividly past, present, and future);

Second, His Unchangeableness: (that God is unchanging in His perfections, purposes, and promises);

Third, His Wisdom: (that God chooses the best goals and means to those goals);

Fourth, His Omniscience: (that God is knowing Himself and all things actual and possible);

Finally, His desire for us to stay connected through the Doctrine of Prayer: (our personal contact with God), because we know that “Prayer changes the way God acts”.

When believers are confused or untaught about the attributes of God, it leads to instability, and needless fears: so we need to dive in and know what His Word says. What are the key attributes that have to do with these Changeless Truths about God?

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