Why is God so good to me and blessing me when I do not deserve it!

[Pal Handy]

Can someone please help me to understand why God would love
someone like me and bring me into a loving relationship with Him
and bring me through every difficulty and promises me eternal life?

God is so high above me, how can He love me?

Please, I am desperate to know why God is so good, loving and kind,
to me when I know I am flawed and do not live a perfect life.

I need some answers....

Thanks

 

[drjean]

Because that is Who God is.

None of us deserve anything but punishment...yet God so loved us... and loves us still... and doesn't put us down for questions we don't have answers for...

God blesses us not by what we do, but by what attitude we do what we do... are we in a worshipping attitude, praising Him? Even David, a man after God's own heart, was quite sinful (I mean, come on, seduction, murder...) yet God blessed him. Why? Because David always returned to God, asking forgiveness, praising God's mercy. God knows we are not perfect (yet again)...but He does honor it when we acknowledge from where our righteousness comes. Be well.

 

[TruthSeeker2012]

Can someone please help me to understand why God would love
someone like me and bring me into a loving relationship with Him
and bring me through every difficulty and promises me eternal life?

God is so high above me, how can He love me?

Please, I am desperate to know why God is so good, loving and kind,
to me when I know I am flawed and do not live a perfect life.

I need some answers....

Thanks

It's because when Father God views you and sees you, He legally sees you "IN CHRIST" and He only sees a perfect and sinless Son. So that's how Father can have a relationship with you and why you can enter into heaven. Jesus' birth, life and death has been imputed to you as a free gift of grace, so that you can now stand as perfect as the Son Jesus and Father completely accepts you.

God bless.

 

[Pal Handy]

It's because when Father God views you and sees you, He legally sees you "IN CHRIST" and He only sees a perfect and sinless Son. So that's how Father can have a relationship with you and why you can enter into heaven. Jesus' birth, life and death has been imputed to you as a free gift of grace, so that you can now stand as perfect as the Son Jesus and Father completely accepts you.

God bless.

Sometimes when I think about what Christ did,
or even more correctly, what God did for me when He suffered
as a human being at the hands of those He came to save,
it brings tears to my eyes....

How can anyone love that much?

 

[MasterpieceMesias]

only God can love that much, I guarantee you you'll never see or hear of that kind of agape from any human being except for Jesus. . . but he's a rare exception. Even saved people aren't capable of that sort of love, despite what some may believe.

 

[Pal Handy]

only God can love that much, I guarantee you you'll never see or hear of that kind of agape from any human being except for Jesus. . . but he's a rare exception. Even saved people aren't capable of that sort of love, despite what some may believe.

That kind of love breaks my heart.
I don't deserve it.
It make me want to try to love like He loves.
I do not know how to but I still ask Him for it.....

 

[MasterpieceMesias]

nobody deserves anything God does for them, he just does it out of the kindness of his own heart. . . you are probably teary-eyed right now, aren't you Pal?? (random guess)

 

[TruthSeeker2012]

Sometimes when I think about what Christ did,
or even more correctly, what God did for me when He suffered
as a human being at the hands of those He came to save,
it brings tears to my eyes....

How can anyone love that much?

AMEN. And that's exactly what makes God so gracious and amazing

And in GRACE, you can be counted as Jesus and given the reward that Jesus deserved, and in return He was treated as we should have been, 2cor 5:21.

Now you maybe understand why the song "AMAZING GRACE" has been sung so many years by so many different people.

God bless.

 

[Pal Handy]

nobody deserves anything God does for them, he just does it out of the kindness of his own heart. . . you are probably teary-eyed right now, aren't you Pal?? (random guess)

Once in a while I have an epiphany of God and in that moment
I catch a glimpse of the heart of God and it feels as if in that moment
all I desire is to have my own heart broken in total surrender.

It is hard to describe...

People have told me to be careful what you pray for.

How can we understand God's love or how to love others as
God loves unless we are willing to experiance God's heart
and become broken as Christ's own heart was broken?

Yes I get teary when I glimpse the heart of love of God in Christ.

 

[elenore]

Sometimes when I think about what Christ did,
or even more correctly, what God did for me when He suffered
as a human being at the hands of those He came to save,
it brings tears to my eyes....

How can anyone love that much?

Don't mean to be a pot stirrer -
But.....

Save from what?


God is real. He is also the same, yesterday and forever. Which includes all the smiting in the old testament. The bible tells us that 'if we've seen the son then we've seen the father' - ie, they both have the same nature. Perfect.

Perfect is as perfect does and it doesn't ever revolve around us.

 

[elenore]

And if you want your heart broken. Just ask.

Seriously.

He will do it.


(he wants to do things like that, but you'd better be willing for what will happen, because you will pay that price.)

 

[Emmy]

Dear Pal Handy. God is Love, and God wants loving children. We are on Earth to learn to become as God wants us to be: Loving and caring with no conditions asked, freely and always helpfully. God sees our sincere efforts, and God blesses us, because God knows that we love Him and follow His Commandments to love. God`s eternal Law of Justice is: "What ye sow ye will also reap:" Blessings and rewards for all good we do, and fitting consequences for all unloving and selfish deeds, or words. It is God`s way of teaching us.
Jesus died that we might live, and Jesus is our Saviour, He reconciled us to God. Keep being kind and loving, and you will get blesses and encouragements. Jesus is The Way, He will help us and lead us back to God, where we came from. I say this with love, Pal Handy. Greetings from Emmy, your sister in Christ.

 

[Pal Handy]

And if you want your heart broken. Just ask.

Seriously.

He will do it.


(he wants to do things like that, but you'd better be willing for what will happen, because you will pay that price.)

And if you want your heart broken. Just ask.

Seriously.

He will do it.


(he wants to do things like that, but you'd better be willing for what will happen, because you will pay that price.)

When I say broken Heart I mean a heart that is not guarded
or closed to God but open and willing to trust completely.

I am not talking about going through the ravages of sin or seeing loved
ones go through pain and suffering to the point of myself being broken in
spirit, down cast and in mental anguish.

I have experienced all those things.

I am talking about a place of surrender.
I am talking about being like a child again in my heart
so that all objections to God's will is gone and like
a child who goes where the Father takes them, goes
so willingly without any questioning but in trust.

Perhaps that is why people keep warning me about praying for a broken
heart as if I am inviting tragedy and suffering to bring me to
a place that can only be reached through unconditional love
of God that is fully received by an open (broken) and willing heart.

To some they see pain and suffering but to my heart and mind I see
absolute surrender to God in love and trust.

Many of the great revivals brought about this brokeness before God.
God would come flooding into a man's soul and in a moment all objections,
fears, pride and resistance to the Love and purpose of God vanishes.

Pain and suffering are not what brings a surrendered heart,
the love of God poured out like a healing balm does.

So I guess a broken heart sounds scary to some but what I mean to
say is a heart in which all resistance to love is gone and the child
who trust the Father is all that remains.

 

[briareos]

I am inspired by the early chapters of Ephesians where Paul said that Christ died for us so that he could spend the ages, displaying his love and kindness for us.

God intends to spend eternity trying to help us understand how much he loves us.

Also Paul said that he did not come with wisdom and skilled speech... so that the cross of Christ would not be emptied of it's power. Do not ever feel that you have to perfectly understand and skillfully express the mind and heart of God. There is power in the cross and some people pursue man's decryption of that mystery to their own undoing. I pray that my ministry will never be based on my ability to know and communicate, rather i rest and depend on the power of the cross.

We do not understand, but God intends to spend eternity trying to help us understand.

 

[BFine]

A perfect God who can love perfectly...be in awe.

 

[Forge3]

And if you want your heart broken. Just ask.

Seriously.

He will do it.


(he wants to do things like that, but you'd better be willing for what will happen, because you will pay that price.)

I was at an art show and saw this beautifully painted pair of angel's wings. When I talked to the artist she said she painted a broken heart. Today I look at it and see it both ways.

 

[TruthSeeker2012]

Let me explain it another way. God is not blessing you, because God cannot bless or reward a sinner and rebellious child as we all are. If God could reward and bless a sinner, then God would not have to destroy sinners in the end times, those who rejected Jesus.

But here is how it works and what happens. Once a person comes to Christ, a legal exchange is made, and Jesus' perfection is imputed to us and we are then "IN CHRIST", so Father God no longer sees a sinful person, He now legally sees a perfect and sinless and righteous child because you now stand as if you had never sinned (justified) and are receiving the reward that Jesus would.

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Isaiah 61:10[/FONT] I delight greatly in the LORD;
my soul rejoices in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation
and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,
as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

God bless.

 

[Pal Handy]

Let me explain it another way. God is not blessing you, because God cannot bless or reward a sinner and rebellious child as we all are.

But here is how it works and what happens. Once a person comes to Christ, a legal exchange is made, and Jesus' perfection is imputed to us and we are then "IN CHRIST", so Father God no longer sees a sinful person, He now legally sees a perfect and sinless and righteous child because you now stand as if you had never sinned (justified) and are receiving the reward that Jesus would.

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Isaiah 61:10[/FONT] I delight greatly in the LORD;
my soul rejoices in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation
and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,
as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

God bless.

I have to be careful to see that God accepts me because
I am in Christ and Christ is in me and so He pardons my sin
because of Christ...

And yet we are told that God loved us all even while we were His enemies.
Even before Christ came God so loved the world.
God's love preceeded Christ and was present from the beginning
when God made man in His image and likeness and God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.

God imparted Himself into us and He loves us as His children and has been blessing
us inspite of our own sins since the beginning.

Think about it....

Adam was supposed to die for his rebellion and yet God allowed man to live
and procreate and continue to have life and blessings even while under a death sentence.

God is truly merciful.
God is truly gracious.
God is truly love......



I have seen that verse in Corinthians before.........

 

[Pal Handy]

I am inspired by the early chapters of Ephesians where Paul said that Christ died for us so that he could spend the ages, displaying his love and kindness for us.

God intends to spend eternity trying to help us understand how much he loves us.

Also Paul said that he did not come with wisdom and skilled speech... so that the cross of Christ would not be emptied of it's power. Do not ever feel that you have to perfectly understand and skillfully express the mind and heart of God. There is power in the cross and some people pursue man's decryption of that mystery to their own undoing. I pray that my ministry will never be based on my ability to know and communicate, rather i rest and depend on the power of the cross.

We do not understand, but God intends to spend eternity trying to help us understand.

Ah...but the more we fathom the depths of God's love,
the more we become hopelessly lost in it.....

 

[Pal Handy]

A perfect God who can love perfectly...be in awe.

But I have to see, grasp or experience the awe and depths of His love,
to be in awe......
I think this is where the surrendered open heart comes in.

Someone can love us and do all kinds of selfless acts for our benefit but if we do not
see, grasp or understand the lengths of this love because of a heart that
is consumed with self or deceptions, we never appreciate the expression of love.

Even if love is seen, grasped and experianced in all its practical benefits but
we are not open to the thought of or implied obligation to the love given
that implores us to return that love again, then we have never really received
the love given by falling in love with the one who loves us.

It is the deceitfulness of a man's heart that wants the benefits of anothers
love without any strings being attached to recipicate that love in
surrender of self to the one who loves us.

This is the natural resistance and selfishness of man's heart to gain
the benefits of love without returning it by losing or giving up control over themselves
and their own desires in order to offer themselves in return with unselfishness
in all the obligations of love.

God must break or shatter the old nature (heart) of a willing man like a
potter smashes a flawed jar of clay and then recreates a new vessel to hold the oil.

Isaiah 64:8
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; We are the clay, and
You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.

My prayer is that God would break the old vessel (heart) and recreate one that
can hold His love (understand and receive love) so that I could surrender to that love
and receive it completely and return it to the one who loves me.

Only God can take a person deeper as that person yields to God.

Be truthful.....

How many of you have even scratched the surface of returning God's love?

I know I haven't but I see the obstacle.....