ROMANS 8: 28 And we know that all things work together for good

ROMANS 8: 28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.

Deut 32: 4  [He is] the Rock, his work [is] perfect: for all his ways [are] judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right [is] he.

All things work together for the GOOD to THEM that LOVE GOD.!!!

Can you PRAISE HIM THIS MORNING for ALL the things that have come into your life and all the things to come!!!!

Has the WORK that the LORD done in your life, brought about GOOD within your LIFE??  "Both in the SPIRITUALLY and in the PHYSICAL"

What a wonderful verse to meditate our hearts upon this morning.

The LORD woke me this morning and reminded me that “ALL” things “WORK TOGETHER” for the “GOOD” for those that LOVE HIM.

I LOVE HIM, do YOU? ARE YOU “REBORN” into HIS KINGDOM?

THEN YOU STAND in the POSITION of one that will receive the  GOOD of the LORD!!!

OH  BUT WAIT let us explore that a LITTLE closer!!!

MANY OF US these days are saying:

SO WHERE IS THE BLESSING OR WHERE IS THE GOOD!!!

One of the “KEY” words in that scripture is “WORK TOGETHER”.

That means there is something that is at “WORK in our lives" that must first produce the FRUIT, for the GOOD to come into our life.

We must keep in mind, that WE are being TRANSFORMED and CONFORMED into the IMAGE OF JESUS CHRIST, in character, in the mind of Christ. OLD THINGS are passed away, and our thoughts and patterns, behaviorism are being PURIFIED and CLEANSED to get there.

It is TRUE that all the things that are happening in our lives do not always SEEM GOOD at the time. 

There are many things that are at work in our life that seem uncomfortable to our flesh, when we are not getting our way…even these PAINS, SORROWS, STRUGGLES  ultimately these things are “AT WORK” to bring about GOOD to those that LOVE GOD.

Our prospective of things being GOOD, is OFTEN a little different than GOD’S overall GOAL.

HIS WAYS are not our ways, but HIS WAYS are PERFECT and SEEK perfect conformity to HIS CHARACTER.

HINT: HE IS JEALOUS of HIS OWN HOLINESS, CHARACTER and HE desires a PEOPLE that are SET-APART and conformed to that CHARACTER!! Who are also JEALOUS of HIM and HIS WAYS..

(see post from MAY, HE IS A JEALOUS GOD)

The SCRIPTURES DECLARE that HE DESIRES that not ONE should perish, and that HE is returning for a PURE BRIDE.

And That TRANSFORMATION and CONFORMITY often requires difficult changes, changes that require struggle and travail to come about in our lives, for we often lack understanding of HIS WAYS.

HEB 12: 11 And that no chastisement seemed joyous for the time.

Chastisement often leaves us in places where we are scratching our heads over what is going on in my life right now.  Those are the times we need to spend a great deal of time IN OUR PRAYER CLOSET seeking answers. That we can pursue PEACE and HARMONY with GOD and with HIS WILL TO BE DONE. 

The sooner we find the answer, the sooner the Blessing will come. 

That there be not any need again of the chastisement, but the gentle guidance and leading of the shepherds staff, let us come humbly and meekly to the THRONE of GRACE. Daily seeking out HIS WILL and HIS WAY.....

I do not believe that any one person in their REBORN POSITION of CHRIST came through it in PERFECTION/ KNOWING “ALL” the WISDOM of GOD.

We came through the REBIRTH, IN the POSITIONAL STANDING OF JESUS CHRIST, through being PURCHASED and REDEEMED BY HIS BLOOD. The VEIL WAS TORN, that we now can come boldly to the THRONE OF GRACE. Having now access to the FATHER.

NOW JESUS CHRIST our SAVIOR and LORD, STANDS as the MEDIATOR between the people and the FATHER.

If we had been ABLE to WITNESS the FATHER in ALL OF HIS GLORY and HOLINESS all at once, we would have “DIED” IMMEDIATELY at the CROSS,  for HIS GLORY and HOLINESS is far too much of a CONSUMING FIRE,  than FLESH can handle all in ONE SITTING.

WE DIE DAILY as PAUL reminds us.

WE were PURCHASED with a PRICE that WE could not PAY, our CONDEMNATION was paid for, that we MIGHT LIVE LIFE, according to the PRECEPTS and PRINCIPLES of GOD, to an ABUNDANT LIFE, through the HEARKENING of HIS VOICE, and we are often rewarded spiritually and physically according to the PROMISES OF and TO JESUS CHRIST.

Deut: 28: 2  And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

Through our daily walk with HIM, HE is REVEALING HIMSELF from GLORY TO GLORY, and conforming us and transforming us to HIS NATURE and CHARACTER, that we be a HOLY/SET APART people, a PURE BRIDE at HIS RETURN. Blessed through our conformity in JESUS CHRIST/SPIRITUAL ISRAEL, and blessed in our natural lives.

2 PETER 1: 3  According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that [pertain] unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

HBR 12: 8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

HBR 12: 9  Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

HEB 12: 11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

HEB 12: 12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

HEB 12: 13  And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

We of course often think of GOOD, as things that are PLEASING to our FLESH. Personally I don’t think that is the GOOD that the LORD is AFTER for us.

GOOD things to come our FLESH, are circumstantial consequences and BLESSINGS from the DIVINE CHANGES within our SPIRIT and HEARTS, as our CHARACTER changes, conforming to the PRECEPTS and PRINCIPLES of the LORD’S WAY of doing things HIS WAY, and we are often REWARDED HERE on earth as well as in HEAVEN.

I personally do not believe that GOD is oppose to our flesh finding  JOY, PEACE and HAPPINESS.

However, it is how we go about receiving, seeking and desiring  that JOY AND HAPPINESS that makes the difference.

EXAMPLE:

Do we use unjust weights to get there?

Do we oppress, lie, cheat, to get our way?

Do we persecute others, lust, greed, covet etc?

THEN LET US REPENT of such things!!!

These “WAYS" or behaviorism are NOT build upon the CHARACTER/FOUNDATION OF CHRIST, THE MIND of CHRIST.

HIS THRONE IS BUILD UPON RIGHTEOUSNESS and JUSTICE:

 HE desires that we be JUST to the wicked even when the wicked are not JUST to US. We do not lie, cheat or oppress, even when we are oppressed.

(being JUST is far different than being RUN OVER or used a rug for someones feet, but that is another subject)

IT is for OUR ULTIMATE BLESSING that these thoughts and behaviorism have to PURGED and CLEANSED from our OLD SELF to be TRANSFORMED into the CHARACTER and MIND of JESUS CHRIST.

Suffering often brings about BLESSINGS, ie: transformation, conformation to the IMAGE OF CHRIST, HIS CHARACTER, the MIND OF CHRIST. EVEN “ASSURANCE” that HE Is at WORK IN OUR LIFE, when the results are finally end.

So this morning I am AWAKENED to PRAISE of HIS NAME and ALL that HE has brought to my LIFE and all that HE IS DOING in my life right now..

FOR ULTIMATELY the GOODNESS OF GOD will be REVEALED:

Through the TRAVAILS and STRUGGLES of my HEART, MIND, and LIFE.

I am being TRANSFORMED through a NEW SPIRIT to be CONFORMED to NEW WAYS, HIS WAYS of dealing with things in my life.

Ways in which BRING HIM GLORY and HONOR and PRAISE and ULTIMATELY MY GOOD…..AMEN

BLESSINGS donna