For so many years I wondered what this could possibly mean. Why would God who is so good and merciful especially to the have not's and needy in this world take away the little they had???? Why would His Word tell us to care for those who are without?
Why would the Bible tell us to be like Jesus and even give up our coat for others who need it? I just could not understand this.
It was not until I began reading the Bible for myself and getting "detoxified" from my old religious up bringing that I was ready to hear the truth. It was not God our loving generous kind Abba Father taking the little I had away. No.,
It was as it always was and is here on earth... the devil and the world and the flesh. Stealing and killing and destroying come from the devil.., not the One who Jesus came to represent in all His fullness.
God is always the Giver because of Jesus we see how MUCH He gave and gives at all times. He who did not withhold His VERY BEST Romans 8:32
[SUP]32 [/SUP]He who did not withhold
or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely
and graciously give us all [other] things?
[SUP]30 [/SUP]And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being].
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31 [/SUP]What then shall we say to [all] this? If God is for us, who [can be] against us? [Who can be our foe, if God is on our side?]
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32 [/SUP]He who did not withhold
or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely
and graciously give us all [other] things?
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33 [/SUP]Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect [when it is] God Who justifies [that is, Who puts us in right relation to Himself? Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will God, Who acquits us?]
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34 [/SUP]Who is there to condemn [us]? Will Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Who died, or rather Who was raised from the dead, Who is at the right hand of God actually pleading
as He intercedes for us?
Daily believing and leaning on the love of God in Jesus is the only WAY to find deliverance from wrong believing and wrong living. The Bible says and ye shall know the truth and the truth will set you free... John 8:32 But unless we 'BELIEVE' the truth... it will not take place in our daily lives.