God Believes in You

God believes in you; he sees in you an untapped potential that could be harnessed to improve your lot. That potential is held captive by the sin nature and is unable to gain expression because we are operation in the wrong environment, the world. We are the creations of the Holy and mighty God.
None of us was created with the seed of weakness and corruption. We were created to be agents of dominion and authority, ruling in the place of God.

Even angels marvel at us when they think about how much God cares about mortal men. The Psalmist acknowledges that we are created to have dominion over the works of God’s hands.

[Psalm 8:3-9]  “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; (4)  What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? (5)  For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

(6)  Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: (7)  All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

(8)  The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. (9)  O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Infact God cares about us. He created us in his image to have dominion, yet resident in us is the feeling of helplessness and weakness, the law of sin.

[Romans 7:14-18] “For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. (15)  For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. (16)  If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. (17)  Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. (18)  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not”.

The nature of sin has covered the best that could come out of us. God wants to bring out the best in you. He wants to break the shell of sin and carnality and bring out the best in every one of us.

For this reason while we were yet sinners Christ died for us; the righteous for the ungodly. God commended his love towards us, even when we were without strength.

[Romans 5:6-10]  For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. (7)  For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. (8)  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

(9)  Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. (10)  For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life”.

God believes in every one of us; but what matters is, can we also believe in him? He has taken the first step by giving his only begotten son to die and rise again.

At the heart of bringing out the best in you is the need to get born again. Every one of us has got a story; ours may be a little different but we all went wrong and the saviour came and he took the pain. We know that if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away and all things have become new. The new birth experience positions you in a new realm and category of creations.

[John 3:6-7] “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (7)  Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

The new birth is necessary because of the sin nature we inherited through birth.

We were conceived in sin and shaped in iniquity. We all have sinned and come short of the glory of God because by our first parents, Adam and Eve, sin entered into the world.

[Romans 3:23-26] “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;(24)  Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (25)  Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; (26)  To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God. We were all estranged. We all missed the mark and fallen short of God’s glory. He has however determined to justify all who believe freely by his grace.  Jesus Christ hath been set forth by God as a propitiation for all through faith in his blood.

Romans 5:12-14 reveals that many of us may not have sinned after the similitude of Adam but the evidence of aging and death in our bodies is a sign of the presence of sin in our lives.

[Romans 5:12-14] “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (13)  (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. (14)  Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come”.

We know that the wages of sin is death but eternal life is a free gift of God through Jesus Christ to all who believe.

[Romans 6:23] “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord”.

The scriptures tells us that as sin entered into the world by one man and death reigned, so also by one man’s obedience righteousness and life have passed on to all who believe.

[Romans 5:17-19] “For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

(18)  Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. (19)  For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Isn’t it wonderful that God so loved you that he gave his only begotten son that if you believe in him, you should not perish but have everlasting life.

[John 3:16] ‘For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”.