Micah
7:18-20 NASB
Who is a God
like You, who pardons iniquity And passes over the rebellious act of the
remnant of His possession? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He
delights in unchanging love. He will again have compassion on us; He
will tread our iniquities under foot.
Yes, You will cast all their sins Into the depths of the sea. You
will give truth to Jacob And
unchanging love to Abraham, Which You swore to our forefathers From the days of
old.
It is the truth of God that
consumes us and changes our lives. In
Romans 12:2 we are told or challenged to not be conformed to this world but to
be transformed by God. He changes our minds. He renews our hearts and minds that lead to
redeemed thinking, words and actions.
Who is like God? Think of your experience. Think about what you have learned from Him
and from others who follow Him. His
forgiveness is real. His anger has been removed
and grace has been put in its place.
Have you experienced His grace?
It will change you when it consumes you.
He will again have
compassion on us. That word AGAIN is an
amazing thing. Second chances have
become second nature for this church, and that challenges and changes even
me. In fact when I am consumed with the
second chances God has given me I want to give them to others.
I seek to be consumed by
God, but there are pieces that don’t consume me or run through me because of my
choices. Stop right there. God called us to follow Him fully. There means “all or noting”. But American Christians, or really believers
for as long as I have known, have made it a practice of not allowing God in
some areas of their lives. Grace giving
is one of those areas.
Our current series is called
GIVE IT ALL AWAY at The Community Fellowship.
IT can mean and does mean many things.
The stuff we can and must give away runs the gamut from the tangible to
the intangible. Grace is intangible but
can be seen. It is not contained in a
bank account.
The character of our God,
marked in these verses above, leads us to examine our own walk with God and our
faith. We are forgiven. We are touched and changed by His love. But it is His grace that stays on my mind. His grace leads us to live, give, think and
do everything differently.
It is the grace of God that
makes our character be leaning toward generosity. There is a promise for those who take from
God. There is also a promise for those
who are generous.
Take some time to look at
these verses and ask God to help you, and me, become known as generous, godly
people!
Yes, you will be enriched in every way
so that you can always be generous. And when we take your gifts to those who
need them, they will thank God.
Proverbs
11:25 NLT
The generous
will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.
Psalm
37:21 NLT
The wicked
borrow and never repay, but the godly are generous givers.
Psalm
112:4 NLT
Light shines
in the darkness for the godly. They are generous, compassionate, and righteous.
Isaiah
32:8 NLT
But generous
people plan to do what is generous, and they stand firm in their generosity.
This is also true of our
God. In fact we are most like God when
we are sharing what God has given us. He
was and is gracious to us. We must be
generously gracious with others.
James
4:6 NLT
And he gives
grace generously. As the Scriptures say, “God opposes the proud but gives grace
to the humble.
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