The second, among other lessons we learn from Simon’s experience, is: always seek until found the Positive in most Negative experiences. Since God can bring GOOD from every BAD, it remains for us to be the kind of believer he can use to Prove It! Included here only two of multiple Bible examples.
Abraham, not only the first Patriarch, the spiritual head of God’s family under Christ, became the first mortal to believe in the bodily resurrection from the dead. Read the Genesis account for the history, Chapter 22. Then read Hebrews 11:17-19 for its spiritual counterpart. We know God provided a ram in the thicket Genesis 22:11-14. However: Abraham:
Hebrews 11 explains; though Abraham:
John, perhaps the youngest of the apostles, in old age suffered in Patmos for the Lord he loved from youth. A life sentence; in reality, death sentence. But what ineffable Glory John saw as Jesus opened Heaven to show him, “what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later” Revelation 1:19. In summary, we NEED, and God seeks from us, not an occasional faith in crisis, but constant faith:
In finality, to TRUST our way through life each day; not to face by fate what baffles us. For every believer says,
And if that sounds too romantic for our life, let us remember: Jesus Christ came as GOD’s LOVE as the New Testament reveals his love letter to all humanity. Fini
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