Friday, January 11, 2008

Can He be Disappointed?

Ps 33:11 But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of His heart through all generations

Isa 46: 10 Only I can tell you what is going to happen even before it happens. Everything I plan will come to pass for I do whatever I wish.

Ps 139: 16 You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in Your book. Every moment laid out before a single day had passed.

Eph 1:4 Long ago, even before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in His eyes. His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ and this gave Him great pleasure

Heb 2:11 So now Jesus and the ones He makes holy have the same Father

Heb 10:14 For by that one offering He perfected forever all those He is making holy

Eph 2:2 - 6...You used to live just like the rest of the world....All of used to live that way, following the passions and desires of our evil nature. We were born with an evil nature and we were under God's anger just like everyone else. But God is so rich in mercy and He loved us so very much, that even while we were dead because of our sins He gave us life when He raised Christ from the dead...for He raised us from the dead along with Christ and we ARE seated with Him in the heavenly realms, all because we are one with Christ Jesus.

Col 1:22 He has brought you back as His friends. He has done this through His death on the cross in His own human body. As a result He has brought you into the very presence of God and you are holy and blameless as you stand before Him without a single fault...but you must continue to believe this truth and stand in it firmly

Col 2:9 For in Christ the fullness of God lives in a human body and YOU ARE COMPLETE in your union with Christ

Col 3:3 For you died when Christ died and your real life is hidden with Christ in God and when Christ, who is your real life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share all His glory

SO WHERE AM I GOING WITH ALL THIS??
..if it's true that God's plans stand firm forever and He knows what will happen before it does
..if it's true that everything He plans for me will come to pass
..if it's true that He saw me before I was born and recorded every day of my life, and every moment was laid out before a single day passed
..if it's true that He loved and chose me before He made the world
..if it's true that His unchanging plan has always been to adopt me
..if it's true that Jesus makes me holy
..if it's true that Jesus perfected me when He died for me
..if it's true that I am raised to new life and am ALREADY (present tense) seated with Him in the heavenly realms and am holy and blameless as I stand before Him without a single fault
..if it's true that I am complete in my union with Christ
..if it's true that God only sees my REAL LIFE in Christ and not this earthly life which HE is sanctifying and making holy

THEN.....I can rest and know that God, my Father in Heaven, is not, and will not and can never be disappointed in me....

To disappoint is to fail to fulfill a desire or expectation.....but we can see that Jesus clearly fulfilled all of God's desires and expectations for a children who were holy and blameless in His sight.....to disappoint is to fail to live up to expectations....but my Father in Heaven has no such expectations on me...He put them all on Jesus, and Jesus did not fail to live up to them...in fact, according to Col 3:3, I am living up to them in my "REAL LIFE"... the one that is hidden with Christ in God

To be a disappointment is to frustrate hopes or sadden my Father by not having His expectations fulfilled in some regard....but He says that He knows the beginning from the end, and what I'm going to do before I do it, what I'm going to think before I think it, and what I'm going to say before I say it.....so how can He be expecting anything different and be surprised or disappointed when I don't "measure up"

This knowledge has given me rest...I can cease striving...there was always a burden of having not measured up and being a disappointment to my earthly parent...however, when the Word began to penetrate my heart, it began to give me understanding of Who and What Jesus accomplished for me, and because of Him, our Heavenly Father sees me as "complete" ...(seeing the end from the beginning...it's the "good work He promises to complete in me that He chooses to see) and for that reason, He is never disappointed..with that knowledge, I found myself wanting to be His daughter more than anything else

How did this realization come?? Through His word..faith comes from hearing and hearing from the Word of God.

James 1:16..He chose to make us His children by giving us His true Word

James 2:21 humbly accept the message God has planted in your heart

7 comments:

Ame said...

Wow - I think I need to read this more than once - thanks

Linda said...

How I needed this encouragement Rena. Your words, and His, spoke directly to my heart.
Thank you so much for faithfully writing what He has given you.

Jada's Gigi said...

AMEN!!! So good to see it in print! He cannot be disappointed in His Son, he cannot accept His Son more, nor love Him more...and we are hidden in God in Christ! When He looks at me He sees His Son! Hallelujah!

Dawn said...

Thank you so much for this encouraging post!

Pat said...

Thanks. Disappointment only happens if you were expecting something else. The Lord knew that I would succumb to my desire to go to Wendy's so He is not disappointed when I eat too much. I'm disappointed, but He isn't.

Shash said...

I think people think He can be disappointed because those Christians still are living under law and not under grace. Or even as the church we grew up in, a little bit of Law and a little bit of Grace.

They don't understand unconditional love, Agape love. They define His love through their earthy, human version - their expectations and emotional experiences. Human love has such a smallness to it - we can't even compare how we would love our children to how He actually loves us.

Lala's world said...

ok I have to chuckle at what Pat wrote!! totally true how we think He is disappointed in us, thats us thinking like orphans and not grasping the Father's love... good word!
ps I've missed your posts!