Brothers and sisters there are some things that we just can’t do anything about! Like gravity. What goes up must come down. For some of us gravity is not our friend. We fall down. A lot. Or the laws of nature. Ever tried to control nature? How’s that working out for you? So often we need rain and there’s nothing that we can do about it. We can just sit back, pray and continue to ask God to bring it on! And then we realize, there really are some things on this ole’ Earth that we just cannot change, and the list goes on and on!
And just like in nature, there are somethings in God’s law that we just cannot change. For starters, God cannot lie! The Bible says if you have given your heart to Jesus, REALLY given your heart to Jesus (Not just walked an isle to satisfy your mother), nothing can ever take that away! Also, His love for you is everlasting. There is nothing that you will ever do that will stop Him from loving you. And that my friends is called mercy!
In the book of The Lamentations of Jeremiah chapter 3:22-23 tells us, “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” If I was God, I’d have wiped out this old evil world a long, long time ago! But because He shows us mercy He doesn’t. His mercy is constantly updated! No matter what is going on or how rotten we’ve been acting, His mercy is new every morning. We get a do over! I praise the Lord for that!
Then there’s giving to Him. Do you realize that you can never ever out give God? That no matter how much you give He’s going to give back to you much more! That’s a promise that you can take to the bank! And if you really think about it, we came into this world naked and we’re going to leave this world naked. We’ll all circle the proverbial drain no matter how much or how little we have. Jesus tells us in Matthew 6:21 that, “Where your treasure is there will your heart be also.” What that simply means is this, if you’re storing up treasures on this earth and not investing that treasure in Heaven your heart is on this Earth! But if you are laying up your treasures in Heaven, your heart is fixed on Heaven! So ask yourself, “Where are your treasures?” Think about it! Jesus says in Mark 8:36, “What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?” What good will all the money in the world do us in eternity?