What if God was not who you thought He was?

What if he’s far different—far better, far higher, far more loving, far more amazing? If you could know that God—really know him—would you want to?
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What If God Has Planned Your Future?


If God has planned your future, there is no such thing as fate. Fate is
impersonal. Fate says blind and invisible forces determine whatever I do
and whatever is done to me. There’s no use trying; whatever will be will
be.
If God has planned your future, then the three Persons who love you the
most—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, have
mapped the route for you. You cannot be more secure.

Christians disagree about exactly how God plans your future, how he
takes into account your desires and free will, but all should agree that the
future is set. God says he “makes known the end from the beginning,”
and “works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will”
(Isa 46:10; Eph 1:11).

God easily plans your future because he exists outside of time. He is the
Lord of time, for he created time. Jesus is Lord of the past; you can give
all your regrets to him. Jesus is Lord of the future; you can give all your
fears to him. Jesus is Lord of the present. You can give this day to him.
Do it now.

 

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What if God is Beautiful?


If God is beautiful, and God is real, then reality is beautiful. Your heart
might be squeezed from regular encounters with ugliness: grim swaths
of potholed asphalt; pop songs that soon grow tiresome; or formulaic
movies with predictable plots and cliched lines. You might be drowning
in oceans of mediocrity, but the world was beautiful once and will be
again.

If God is beautiful, then a standard for beauty exists. Beauty is not solely
in the eye of the beholder. We have a yardstick that measures beauty.
We can tell the difference between good art and bad. We can paint and
compose art that is objectively beautiful, and know it.

Beautiful1If God is beautiful, and God made you in his image, then you are made
for beauty. Don’t be satisfied with anything less. You have been created
for the One who is beauty itself.

If God is beautiful, and God loves you, then you are loved by beauty.
We desire beautiful people. We yearn to be with them, but they seem out
of our league. God is out of your league, yet he desires you. He gave his
Son so he could be with you. If God is beautiful, beauty wants you.

 

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What if God is Holy?


If God is holy, there is someone above our pay grade. Someone whose
shoulders are broad enough to carry the weight of this world and an
infinite number of others. Someone who dwells in unapproachable light,
a light that burns brighter than the thousands of suns he has made.

If God is holy, you can go to bed and sleep soundly, knowing that
whatever happened today did not surprise him and whatever will happen
tomorrow will not surprise him. God holds you and your situation and
your whole world in the palm of his hand. God holds every universe that
ever was in the palm of his hand. He’s got this, and he’s got you.

But here’s the thing: If God is holy, then his standard for justice, for
right and wrong, is also out of this world. It’s not good enough for us to
be as good as our neighbors. To be accepted by God, we must be as
good as God. But we can’t be, we won’t be. That’s why God sent Jesus.

Because God is holy and because God is love, He gave Jesus to die for
our sin. If we renounce our sin and throw our weight on Jesus, we are
fully and finally forgiven. Because God is holy, you can be too. Who
can comprehend this?

 

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What If God Is Bigger Than My Failure?


Sometimes we think that God could not forgive us. If you knew what
I’ve done, and how many times I’ve done it, you would not glibly tell
me that I am forgiven. Jesus died for sinners, but you don’t know how
bad I am.

I agree. I don’t know what you’ve done and how many people you have
hurt. You might be the most wicked person you know. But if you think
that your sin is too much for God to forgive, then at the top of your list
of sins you must add the sin of pride.

Who do you think you are? Do you really think that lil’ ol’ you has done
something that is bigger than God? You might have really blown it this
time. You might have yelled ‘no’ at God and the people who love you
the most. But God in Christ roars YES to you. And God’s YES destroys
your puny, mousy ‘no.’

Do you know what happened on the cross? The Son of God endured his
Father’s wrath on your sin. God was punished by God. You are not God.
So yes, what happened there is plenty big enough to cover whatever you
might do. God can easily forgive you. He won’t even break a sweat.

God is not only not surprised by your sin. He was counting on it. That’s
why Jesus died! Have you committed a colossal sin? Don’t waste time
beating yourself up. Run to the cross. Run to Jesus.

 

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What If God Is Listening?


If God is holy, there is someone above our pay grade. Someone whose
shoulders are broad enough to carry the weight of this world and an
infinite number of others. Someone who dwells in unapproachable light,
a light that burns brighter than the thousands of suns he has made.

If God is holy, you can go to bed and sleep soundly, knowing that
whatever happened today did not surprise him and whatever will happen
tomorrow will not surprise him. God holds you and your situation and
your whole world in the palm of his hand. God holds every universe that
ever was in the palm of his hand. He’s got this, and he’s got you.

But here’s the thing: If God is holy, then his standard for justice, for
right and wrong, is also out of this world. It’s not good enough for us to
be as good as our neighbors. To be accepted by God, we must be as
good as God. But we can’t be, we won’t be. That’s why God sent Jesus.

Because God is holy and because God is love, He gave Jesus to die for
our sin. If we renounce our sin and throw our weight on Jesus, we are
fully and finally forgiven. Because God is holy, you can be too. Who
can comprehend this?

 

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