and still You Love me


You have been, and You will be,
You have seen, and You will see.
and still You Love me.

 You hung the stars, and You moved the sea.
and still You Know me.

 Nothing is hidden from your sight, wherever I go You'll find me.

This is not our home....

When I feel disappointed by God, it's because at that moment there's something I'm longing more than him, whether it be healing, deliverance, employment, and marriage might be, none of them will come close to satisfying me as much as God himself. 

 So when I'm disappointed by God, what does it says about my faith? Am I trusting that god himself is who he says he is for me in Jesus? Am I trusting in Him as my all-satisfying treasure?

 Sanctification; to set apart for particular use in a special purpose set by the designer. 

 Sanctification always requires God's presence. His presence is more than his "being there" a corollary of his omnipresence. It is his dynamic presence, producing fruit for which he alone is the source. "Indwelling" is not God's way of getting close to us sensually. It is a theological, rather than experiential, reality; it is "experienced" by faith, not by feeling. 

 Faith in the gospel places the believer in Christ, where everything becomes new (2cor 5:17), and this new identity characterised by faith alone so that we might bear fruit to God (Rom 6:1-11).
However, I come to realise that the transformation by faith is immediate, but it does not automatically result in changed thinking and behaviour. Till now, I still fall. the world, the flesh, and the devil still operate in their usual insidious way, but the power of each has been rendered inoperative (Rom 6:6, Heb 2:14) for those who live by faith according to their new identity. 

 Faith includes repentance, identifying and forsaking everything that characterises the "old-self". Faith also includes trust living in the light of everything that characterises the "new man", even if it doesn't feel right.
All of this is done in hope, or forward-looking faith confidence that God will carry out his sanctifying purposes to the end. When Christ returns to complete His work, all these earthly groan will cease. (1 Cor 13:12, reve 21)

 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philip 1:6)

 Lord, may you carry on to perfection the work you have began in me. Increase my faith, take away my disbelief, and may I never cease having hope in you. 


"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened 
in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, 
the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, 
and his incomparably great power for us who believe. 
That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted
when he raised Christ from the dead 
and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,  
far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, 
not only in the present age but also in the one to come." 
Ephesians 1:18-21

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