HE LOOKED BEYOND OUR FAULTS AND SAW WHAT WE COULD BE THROUGH HIM!!!

July 11, 2014

HE LOOKED BEYOND OUR FAULTS AND SAW WHAT WE COULD BE THROUGH HIM!!!

“Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7 (ESV)

Amazing Grace’ shall always be my song of praise for it was grace that bought my liberty I do not know just why he came to love me so. I shall forever lift mine eyes to Calvary to view the cross where Jesus died for me How marvelous the grace that caught my falling soul” for HE LOOKED BEYOND OUR FAULTS AND SAW WHAT I COULD BE THROUGH HIM.

Looking at the Characteristics of 7 of the 12 Disciples that Christ Personally choose are as follow; SIMON PETER, Impulsive foot in the mouth disease a brawler, JOHN; Ambitious, Judgmental, JAMES; Ambitious, short-tempered, judgmental, MATTHEW; Despised outcast because of his dishonest career, PHILIP; Questioning attitude, THOMAS; a doubter, JUDAS; Treacherous and Greedy Betrayer of Christ.

In our limited human way of thinking, the first thing we usually ask before we focus on the grace, mercy and “longsuffering of God towards us, who is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance,” is WHY DID THE CREATOR OF OUR UNIVERSE TAKE A CHANCE WITH SUCH A WRETCHED SINNER LIKE JUDAS THE ONE WHO BETRAYED HIM?

My friends this is where I need you to focus today because if we think hard about the question, we will realize that we betray our Savior each time we allow the god of this world to move our attention away from the love and grace of Christ to the things of this world.

As I look back at my Faults and abominations against my Savior throughout my life, I thank God each day that He is not through with me yet and He Who began a good work in [each of us] will continue until the day of Jesus Christ [right up to the time of His return], developing [that good work] and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in each of us.” Phil 1:6 (AMP)

Oh the miracle our God has performed in our lives as He LOOKED BEYOND OUR FAULTS AND SAW WHAT WE COULD BE THROUGH HIM for “the Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness;” but He has a plan for each of our lives and He has set us on a course that will lead to our Salvation.

Yes He takes wretched sinners like you and I and transforms our life from being WHAT WE ARE, to the one who recognizes and believes through the faith of God and His word what Calvary meant for our SALVATION and through this faith we can say without a doubt that Lord, I am going to trust you totally and place all of my confidence, hopes and dreams of eternity exclusively, on Calvary and what Christ did for me.

Consistent with this, I will not trust in anyone else but You simply because YOU LOOKED BEYOND MY FAULTS AND SAW WHAT I COULD BE THROUGH YOU “G.C. Morgan wrote concerning the special three: “There can be no doubt that these men, Peter, James, and John, were the most remarkable in the apostolate.

Peter loved Him; John He loved; James was the first to seal his testimony with his blood. Even their blunders proved their strength. They were the men of enterprise; men who wanted thrones and places of power…Mistaken ideas, all of them.”

But you would think being with the Master for 3-1/2 years they would be completely transformed, but that did not occur until “the day of Pentecost when all the disciples were ASSEMBLED TOGETHER IN ONE PLACE [AND ON ONE ACCORD] and suddenly there came a sound from heaven like the rushing of a violent tempest blast, and it filled the whole house in which they were sitting.

And there appeared to them tongues resembling fire, which were separated and distributed and which settled on each one of them and they were all filled with power [which awaits us also if we believe] from the Holy Spirit Acts 2:2-4 (AMP) and this would never have happen if CHRIST HAD NOT LOOKED BEYOND THEIR FAULTS AND SAW WHAT THEY WOULD BE THROUGH HIM.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY