Even when we keep making the same mistakes... does God ever leave us or give up on us? What if we really love Him but are struggling with getting it right? When we worship or hear Christian songs and it brings tears because we really love Jesus. We are always drawn to worship by the Holy Spirit. In even those times has God left us or given up? Can we still go to hell while worshipping Jesus? Just wondering what others may think.
Great answers from everyone. Old dev is really beating up on the children of God of late. I am convinced that God cares more about our love for Him than our "getting it right". Getting it right is important, but if we love Him He can work with us because our hearts are open to Him, even if change is hard, as it often is. But if we get the superficials right while our hearts are cold toward Him, is that not what the Lord referred to when He said,
On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’
And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ -Matt 7:22-23
Those folks seemed to be getting it right, but their hearts were not His. Thus Jesus says to them, "I never
knew you". "Knew" there is
ginosko, signifying not head knowledge or ability to perform, but a deep union of heart. It's the Mary/Martha thing.
This is precisely why Jesus came - because we could not keep the law. In the Sermon, He takes the law that people were trying to keep, or delusionally thought they were keeping, and he takes it to the Nth degree - thus it's not merely committing the crime that's wrong, nurturing the thought in our minds is as well - to show that it's impossible for us to keep the law, because we are cut off from God. Thus we need a Savior. "The law is the tutor that leads men to Christ" - Gal 3. The whole thrust of the Sermon is away from works and into deep relationship with the Lord.
Old dev wants to get us down, and he's very skilled at what he does. But the power of the grace Christ purchased for us on the Cross is greater. We must avail ourselves of it. Thus the verse TTurt quoted, about going confidently to the throne of grace "for help in time of
need". Thus Rom. 8, where instead of the condemnation which after Rom 7 we know we deserve, we are met with an updraft of grace. This is why Paul says in Rom 6.14 that sin cannot dominate us, because grace has put us on ground it cannot reach. "God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them" - 2cor 5.
If you love Jesus, He is not going to abandon you. He is both Author and Finisher of your faith (Heb 13). He is Faithful and True. Keep looking to Him and don't let anything disrupt your love and your worship.
The devil is a liar. Don't listen to him. Give him no place.
I've gone on here, but it was as much for me as for anyone.
! Thank you so very much! I needed your kind words today and Gods truth spoken in my life
