Bible Verse of the Day Saturday August 5th ,2023

Amos 5:14 Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.

Many people, including Christians, claim that God is on their side. However, there is a more relevant question: Are we on God's side? That's established more by what we pursue and seek rather than what we think and speak. God wishes to be with us, but he will not forfeit his character to extend us substandard grace, a grace that does not call for us to be like him. He's looking for believers who put their uprightness where their mouths are.

People who genuinely desire to find God can find Him if they are willing to see Him in every aspect of the world's creation. Those with a confident and constructive preference can come to know God, have the glory of God in view, and have the satisfaction that arises from setting God as their aspiration. In people that live a life that has immortality or corruption at its core, God is detached and removed from their entire being. There are only two options when it comes to having a heart for God: a positive or negative desire to want to know and follow Him. God will bestow eternal life on all that measure up to His complete and supreme righteousness. The problem is there has never been or will ever be a human being that can measure up to God's standard of righteousness (Romans 3:10 & 3:20). There is not one person that has ever lived, living now or ever living in the future that will live up the unequivocal nature of who God is. God is perfect himself, and he demands perfection in all of us.

Since we are all equally powerless and inept in approaching God with human accomplishments, the only way any of us will ever be in the presence of God is through the grace and mercy of Christ Jesus, who paid the ultimate price for the sins of all humankind. Jesus's death on the Cross clearly demonstrates the Love of God for all people. God's love functions notwithstanding human works or deeds. Christ's death on the Cross profits sinners through a sacrifice God offers. God displays and exhibits His love to the "feeble," "corrupt," "sinners," and "adversaries." It is manifestly clear that there is no qualification in God's love; God will not leave one person out of His love. There is no prior love on our part, God loves all people before anyone makes any movement toward Him.