Be Careful & Trust God
Be Careful & Trust God.
What does that mean?
Be Careful of what?
Trust God in what life-situation, in what place & in what season of time?
YOU—Child of God—Be Careful.
And
YOU—Believer Who Has Faith—Trust God.
In the Bible, Jude is not someone well known because he seems to quietly serve in the background, never the limelight, a bond-servant of Jesus Christ. Jude was a brother to James (both a physical and spiritual brother), and Jude was a writer who wrote to believers, to those who needed encouragement. It is there, in God’s Holy Word, where we find Jude’s encouraging letter. SEE WITH ME.
“Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy,
to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.”
(Jude 24-25)
God wants each one of us to know Him—intimately.
God wants each one of us, all of us, to have faith in Him—the only God and Savior.
God wants each person to be saved.
God wants to save us for all eternity—the Creator—so He sent His Only Son—Jesus Christ.
God cares for us.
God loves us!
God created us and loved us, even while we were still caught in our sinful nature.
God loved us even though we were totally immersed within sin.
God did!
Yes, thank You God, You do!
Let us raise our hands to praise & worship Him!
If you are not God’s child, yet, then know God does—love and care for you!
God sent His Only Son to provide us a way to intimately know Him—to be saved–through Him, through Jesus!
We can only receive this intimacy because of the cross of Jesus, because of the death and resurrection of Jesus.
So, Believer, we must be Careful & Christian, we must Trust God—again and again and again and again. It is a daily turning toward our Savior. We are Saved Once and for all, truly! We are Sanctified daily as we walk within God’s will, talking with Him, being led by the Holy Spirit. Daily, we strive in our careful walk, keeping our eyes upon Him, studying His Word, doing His will, and as we do, He sanctifies us, preparing us for the day when He will bring us home to heaven. The more we dig into God’s Word and the more we study, then the more we will know God and the less likely we will be tempted to return to our sinful state.
Justification—to
Sanctification—to
Glorification!
It is God who sent His Only Son!
It is Jesus who provides the way!
It is the Holy Spirit who opens our eyes! &
It is the Holy Spirit who provides us the way to understanding, discernment!
“So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”
And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”
(John 20: 19-22)
We are His because we believe.
We are His because we trust Him.
We are His because we have faith.
He is ours, our God, because we believe in the One He sent to die upon the cross.
He is ours, our Savior, because we have faith in the Son who arose from the grave to new life.
He is ours, the Only God because we trust Him, His Word.
Believer, we must be Careful as we walk daily throughout each day, Careful to walk with Him.
Christian, We Must Be Careful & We Must Trust God.
Our last day is coming, the day when we will go home, when we will leave this life. On that day, we will go into eternity. If we know Him intimately, trust Him as our Savior, believe that He is the Christ, then we will go home to heaven.
Thus, while we are here, earth-side, we must be careful and trust Him.
Believer, where is He leading us to go?
Christian, what is He leading us to do?
May we fix our eyes upon Him, & May we walk with Him.
May we offer Him a hymn of praise with our daily walk as we journey toward our forever home.
May we fix our hope on the gospel; May we trust God’s pledge—His Promise—to see us all the way home.
We Must Be Careful to live each moment within His will.
We Must Be Walking toward heaven, Trusting Him.
“Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men,
Knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance, It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.”
(Colossians 3: 23-24)