Psalm 146:5 (NASB)
How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the LORD his God,
“Who’s hope is in the Lord his God”
2 Corinthians 1:8-9 (NASB)
For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life; indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.
“so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God”
Paul is sharing, that it was God, that brought Paul to despair even of life, that his hope might be in God alone. This was God’s work.
This being brought to the end of oneself, where life itself is a disparagement to itself, is a dark, frightful and lonely place. Where all props have been removed, the heart now has a choice. It can by an act of it’s will choose to believe in God, and trust His love and His promises and His goodness toward that heart that would still, in spite of all to the contrary, still long to be God’s.
To this heart God has a gift. The gift of a heart that is unmoved by outward circumstances. A heart who’s eyes will forever know where to look, for it’s hope and deliverance from all things, even death. A heart that will not trust in itself but in God who raises the dead. This heart, worked in the believer, by experience, is God’s gift of love, for now the believer can rest from all their own works and rest in the love and goodness of God.
Than when this trust of the heart was in God alone, and not in anything of this world, or of self, but in God alone, it was than we read;
2 Corinthians 1:10 (NASB)
who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,
Deliverance than comes with such a confidence, and security, that Paul says “and will yet deliver us”
Paul saw that going forward, his hope and trust would always remain in God, for this truth had been worked inwardly in him by experience.
He now with a heart full of faith, hope, and love of God, could he now enter into the rest that is for all that would have no hope in anyone or anything but God alone.
All the love that is in Christ, to all those that are willing to be brought to this place, that like Paul, they might rejoice with Him in the hope and glory of the one who said He will never leave or forsake them.
Blessings,
Much love in Christ, Not me
How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the LORD his God,
“Who’s hope is in the Lord his God”
2 Corinthians 1:8-9 (NASB)
For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life; indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.
“so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God”
Paul is sharing, that it was God, that brought Paul to despair even of life, that his hope might be in God alone. This was God’s work.
This being brought to the end of oneself, where life itself is a disparagement to itself, is a dark, frightful and lonely place. Where all props have been removed, the heart now has a choice. It can by an act of it’s will choose to believe in God, and trust His love and His promises and His goodness toward that heart that would still, in spite of all to the contrary, still long to be God’s.
To this heart God has a gift. The gift of a heart that is unmoved by outward circumstances. A heart who’s eyes will forever know where to look, for it’s hope and deliverance from all things, even death. A heart that will not trust in itself but in God who raises the dead. This heart, worked in the believer, by experience, is God’s gift of love, for now the believer can rest from all their own works and rest in the love and goodness of God.
Than when this trust of the heart was in God alone, and not in anything of this world, or of self, but in God alone, it was than we read;
2 Corinthians 1:10 (NASB)
who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,
Deliverance than comes with such a confidence, and security, that Paul says “and will yet deliver us”
Paul saw that going forward, his hope and trust would always remain in God, for this truth had been worked inwardly in him by experience.
He now with a heart full of faith, hope, and love of God, could he now enter into the rest that is for all that would have no hope in anyone or anything but God alone.
All the love that is in Christ, to all those that are willing to be brought to this place, that like Paul, they might rejoice with Him in the hope and glory of the one who said He will never leave or forsake them.
Blessings,
Much love in Christ, Not me
