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The fact that you have a beautiful home, the fact that you have new cars is no indication that you are closer to the Lord than the one who drives an old beater. Nor even the one who doesn’t have the money to even own a car. Now those who are busy across our nation suggesting that God came into this world to give us this world’s goods must take another look at the One who came into this world who had nowhere to lay His head, and God has something better than houses and land, silver and gold. This God has something infinitely greater in satisfaction than a solid stock portfolio and progressively upward mobility.
He plans to bring something greater than this world’s goods. Some ask, “Is He gonna deliver us from our burdens and oppressions?” I can’t promise that, because He moves in strange and mysterious ways, and I know about those daily battles. In fact, 1 Peter 4:12 tells us, “Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you.”When you have Jesus, the first thing, according to the book of Romans, in the fifth chapter, in the light of what transpired in the previous verses, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord, Jesus Christ. Now that’s the real deal, that when you have Jesus, you have peace with God, therefore, the fact that He was raised again from the dead for our justification, we have something, and that something is, there is therefore no condemnation and we can have peace with God for those who accept Jesus Christ.

Let Go

As children bring their broken toys,
with tears; for us to mend,
I brought my broken dreams to God
because He was my friend.
But then instead of leaving Him,
in peace, to work alone,
I hung around and tried to help
with ways that were my own.
At last I snatched them back and cried,
"How can You be so slow?"
"My child", He said,"what could I do?"
"You never did let go."