NOTHING, that's what!

[musterion]

[SIZE=9pt]Scared? Depressed? Discouraged?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=9pt]All of us are, at some time or other. However, there's good news! If you've believed the Gospel of the grace of God,[/SIZE]

[SIZE=9pt]This good news is based, of course, upon the fact that since Christ was the spotless Lamb of God, His death is accepted by God as full satisfaction for the sinner. Thus Paul, by divine inspiration, declares that believers are “justified freely by His [God's] grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus”[/SIZE] (Rom. 3:24). - C.R.Stam

Even though we who have trusted Christ are still imprisoned (temporarily) with our old treacherous flesh in a fallen, perilous world, and so are occasionally distracted from reckoning upon our eternally sealed positions in Christ, if we have believed the simple Gospel of the grace of God, we are "in Christ" and have NOTHING to fret, fear or worry us. NOTHING can separate us from God's love for us because NOTHING can separate us from His beloved Son. If you are in Christ, you are unconditionally, eternally secure in Him, not only forever beyond God's condemnation but declared righteous. So now, He watches over each of us as He would His own children...for in Christ, such we are!

Tell me: how much safer and more secure can you get?

All that each of us need do now is, in His strength, deny the ungodliness our flesh is still prone to, reckoning ourselves as dead to it, while reckoning ourselves alive unto God as we walk in His Spirit. As we do, we will begin to see the strength of the flesh slowly fade as we slowly but steadily grow into the likeness of Christ, which God has foreordained for us all.

So what is there to fear? What cause for discouragement? What's our reason for depression?

NOTHING, that's what!​

 

[aspen]

I think you are trying to be encouraging and that is good. However, bad things do happen to all of us and denying it is not helpful.

 

[musterion]

bad things do happen to all of us and denying it is not helpful.

Thank you for your comment but you read into it something that isn't there. The main point is what the believer's reaction to bad things is supposed to be, not a denial that bad things happen (only a fool or a liar would deny that).

For those in Christ, God can turn even the worst things in life to our ultimate good, so believers are encouraged if not commanded to stand on that promise by faith by remembering who we are and what we have in Christ.

However, believers - still being human - can block some aspects of that good by our reactions and attitudes when bad things do happen (bitternest, resentment, thanklessness, fear, depression, anxiety, etc). That's was the point.

No idea how you got out of it me denying bad things happen but thanks again for your comment.

 

[aspen]

In that case, I agree with you

 

[musterion]

Great!