BEING
WITH THE HEAVENLY FATHER -
DEVOTIONS
FOR LAMBS.
No. 41
From Wendy Howard [Editor of Despatch magazine],
Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia.
Access Online http://www.despatch.cth.com.au/Main/tabco_main
The Jacksons were back
at long last !
Kerrie gave them to time
to settle into their house.
Then she rushed over
to get those Dutch clogs.
“Oh
dear", said Mrs Jackson, “I’m sorry love,
we forgot to get those!
Next
time we go somewhere we bring you back something.”
Kerrie was very disappointed.
She felt so let down.
She went home and cried.
Promises!
promises!
Human
beings are always breaking their promises.
They “forgot”
or they have “changed their minds.”
Not only people one at
a time break their promises, but whole nations do as well!
One nation makes a promise
to another that they will be at peace with them.
But they attack them
anyway!
Even our own home nation
can let us down.
Even leaders of
whole countries can break promises.
“Who
can trust a pol-i-tic-ian", adults often say.
I wonder if you keep your
word?
I hope you do.
Have
you been very disappointed by a promise being broken?
We
all have.
But
God is different!
When
God says “I WILL - ",
nothing
will ever make Him break His promises.
Nothing
in heaven or earth, not forever and ever.
The
Lord God can be trusted to keep every word of His,
and
you know He has NEVER broken any promise in the past either.
Wonderful
isn’t it? God sure can be trusted.
God
promises to care for us like a shepherd cares for his little lambs. (Psalm
23:1)
And
he always will - if you let Him.
Some kids just worry
and fuss instead of having faith in God.
How about you?
Do you trust God to care
for you?
Joshua in the Bible said this:
EXTRAS FOR TEENS AND BETWEENS
There was a great Christian
missionary called Hudson Taylor.
He sure knew God, for
God took Hudson through many dangers and kept him safe.
He said this
“The
future is as bright as the promises of God.”
And he was right, of
course. Don’t fear what will happen in the future.
With God on your side,
there is a bright future for you no matter what goes on in this world.
NOTHING can separate you from God’s love.
Do you truly belong to
Him?
Have you trusted His
Son as your own Saviour?
Do you do the things
God wants you to?
Then these wonderful
promises belong to you
“What
shall we then say to these things?
If
God be for us, who can be against us?
He
that spared not his own Son,
but
delivered him up for us all,
how
shall be not with him also freely give us all things?...
For
I am persuaded,
that
neither death,
nor
life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers,
nor
things present, nor things to come,
nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature
shall
be able to separate us from the love of God,
which
is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:31,32,38,39).
PRAISE GOD FOR HIS CARE AND LOVE!
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