Our blessed heavenly Father is always for us at all times, considering we’re always forgiven; we don’t go in and out of forgiveness - 1Jo 1:9 – which wouldn’t be necessary. If God ever forgives you for sin, you will always be forgiven for sin, because He ever forgives those He knows are saved. We need not to ask for forgiveness after your initial confession and repentance, which is when you “first believed” (Ro 13:11). Instead we can “thank” God for His everlasting forgiveness when we sin!
God knows we genuinely want to please Him, as He works this very same thing “in you” (Phl 2:13). Everything we now do is used to guide us, teach us and overall, to “please” Him. Is there ever a time we do not want to please Him—God forbid! Even in our trials we press on to praise our Father and our Lord Jesus, all by the Holy Spirit; and how much better does that make us feel, when He finally “makes a way to escape,” and we endured the test. God’s testing is not a pass or fail situation, but it increases our faith, even if a little, each time; and faith never goes backwards but always forward.
“But will with the temptation make a way to escape;” “For as He by His permission makes way for the temptation or affliction, which otherwise would not come; and as He knows how, in what manner, and at the best time, to deliver His people out of temptations; so He does and will, in His providence, open a way that they may escape out of them, at least so as not to be over-pressed and destroyed by them.”
“That ye may be able to bear it.” “For God does not always think fit to remove at once an affliction or temptation, though at the earnest request of His people, as in the case of Paul, 2 Corinthians 12:7 yet He gives them grace sufficient to endure and stand up under it, yea, to get the victory of it, to be “more than conquerors,” (Rom 8:37 – not just conquerors but more than conquerors) and triumph over it.” -John Gill
God knows we genuinely want to please Him, as He works this very same thing “in you” (Phl 2:13). Everything we now do is used to guide us, teach us and overall, to “please” Him. Is there ever a time we do not want to please Him—God forbid! Even in our trials we press on to praise our Father and our Lord Jesus, all by the Holy Spirit; and how much better does that make us feel, when He finally “makes a way to escape,” and we endured the test. God’s testing is not a pass or fail situation, but it increases our faith, even if a little, each time; and faith never goes backwards but always forward.
“But will with the temptation make a way to escape;” “For as He by His permission makes way for the temptation or affliction, which otherwise would not come; and as He knows how, in what manner, and at the best time, to deliver His people out of temptations; so He does and will, in His providence, open a way that they may escape out of them, at least so as not to be over-pressed and destroyed by them.”
“That ye may be able to bear it.” “For God does not always think fit to remove at once an affliction or temptation, though at the earnest request of His people, as in the case of Paul, 2 Corinthians 12:7 yet He gives them grace sufficient to endure and stand up under it, yea, to get the victory of it, to be “more than conquerors,” (Rom 8:37 – not just conquerors but more than conquerors) and triumph over it.” -John Gill
