Hi all
I was again reading recently a Daily Devotion from the hand of F B Meyer a renown theologian and writer who is easily read and understood and i thought I would share it with you.
It was on the thought of the failure of the Christian to live up to his/her testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ in their lives.
Failure is something that creeps into all lives and yet for the Christian it allows self pity and a removal from the blessings of God.
When we fail there is a tendency as Adam and Eve did in the Garden to run away and hide from God when in reality it is Him to which we must run and hide.
God never changes yet it seems in our expression of emotions we do.
I have included an excerpt below of the devotion from F B Meyer which is a tremendous insight into the how deals with that which is broken.
Never feel that failure is something that God cannot deal with and restore a person who is willing to be renewed in His power.
Of course this is not just for the Christian.
God's Word also gives assurance that all who would come in Repentance and Faith confessing their failure of sin before God have the promise of peace with God through the finished sacrifice of Christ on Calvary's Cross.
Rom 10:13 - For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
God hears the genuine call to Him in repentance.
A broken life of sin can always be restored through Jesus Christ who declared that He was the only way that anyone could have access to God:
John 14:6 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
There is no need for the Christian or those without Christ to remain in broken pieces in this world.
'It was thus that our Lord dealt with Peter. He knew that in spite of his grievous fall, there was a strong undercurrent of devoted love, and He did not hesitate to entrust to him the care of His sheep and lambs. In a certain museum there is a lovely marble statue which was found broken into hundreds of pieces. The fragments were carefully collected, and with infinite patience fitted together. Finally a seemingly impossible task was accomplished, and the statue stands in all its original completeness and beauty. So the Lord Jesus will take the broken pieces of any life that will come to Him, and with His skillful and tender touch will remake it into something useful and beautiful in His service. This is the meaning of Redemption' - F B Meyer
Pastor Peter Skillen
Braehill Baptist Church
Belfast
www.braehillbaptist.org
