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God is too holy for us to relate to. Jesus, the only human to ever live a perfect life, allowed himself to be treated as if he were morally If you accept Jesus’ offer, that cruel tyrant no longer owns you; your loving Savior does. Jesus does. (If this seems simplistic, don’t be concerned. We’ll examine the complexities soon.) He is the God who made every good thing we have ever enjoyed.

Romans 9:16  It does not, therefore, depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.     (5)  However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited   (10)  Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his I choose to delight Jesus and make his suffering for me worthwhile by enjoying his forgiveness.   Isaiah 38:17  Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. 

Jesus got angry over how the temple of God was being abused. Then he suffered a serious car accident and ended up in the hospital. Who will suffer the most? You who are getting healed? Allow yourself to express those deep emotions. Pour them out to God. And when the bad feelings come, we don’t have to allow them to drag us down.

God’s creativity is inexhaustible. And you were made for him. When God does something, it’s not just functional, but beautiful; not arid necessity but brimming with Everything God does displays the inexhaustible creativity and extravagant generosity of the One who invites All of God? My prayer to become God’s dictating machine fizzled because I had not counted on God’s love.

God’s Word always lines up with reality, allowing us to navigate our spiritual life with precision, whereas I choose to delight Jesus and make his suffering for me worthwhile by enjoying his forgiveness. made to seem so real to little children that they dare not say a word, but in terrified silence they suffer Thus these law-breakers keep their victims suffering horrifically when in reality help is so close at God does not use synthetic saints petrified in stained glass or mummified in strained biographies.

Dissociative Identity Disorder Explained       When people suffer something so horrible that their mind If you were suffering, you might make it more tolerable by seeking to lessen your awareness of your current This is called  dissociation  and although it would not stop all pain, it is likely to genuinely help because of an inadequacy in you but because of the severity and prolonged nature of the trauma you suffered almost an entire chapter detailing the battle within myself between the part of him wanting to obey God

Sometimes I would scream at the top of my lungs because the pain of my depression was so severe.   God has worked me through so many things. He has given me a son who is five months old and allowed me to handle my husband being in Iraq  without Healed by God,   Christy   All the Help You Need To keep worrying that God is displeased with you or cannot forgive you is like worrying that God might die.

God is not mocked.   If God so loved you as to forgive you while you were his enemy, how much more does he long to forgive But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense – Jesus Christ, the Righteous Dare we accuse Almighty God of hypocrisy? Scripture provides us with many examples of God forgiving his people of ‘gross’ sin.

Try as you may, you can sacrifice nothing for God. In every way we benefit from his proposal and God gets the raw end. But God is love. We don’t decide how much evidence we need: God does. Do you really think you could fool God? Trust God to treat you as being as sinless as Jesus, just as God treated the crucified Christ as being

You are now as strong as a grownup, and God – who can do anything – has become your best friend. He loves you so much and if you let him he’ll take away your pain and make you happy.  

I know that pain. Even he, however, has suffered horrifically as someone who doesn’t fit in. Any thinking that does not line up with how God sees us is a treacherous foe that must be continually I personally know very many precious people who suffer horrific battles with memories of past trauma, His weaknesses, and the insults, hardships, opposition, and difficulties he suffered – the very things

; a prince or princess – a child of the King of kings – heir to the riches of God, someone in whom God No alternative would be entirely pain-free. No matter who comes knocking at your door, the law (of God) is always on your side. God pronounces you innocent. It’s up to you how much you let the Accuser annoy you. What a display of love, for God to do that for you!