The gospel is not that we cannot keep the whole law. The gospel is that we cannot keep any of the law. We believe we have the ability to keep the law, even if it is partially. Whereas, we do not have any ability at all to keep the law. If the whole law is reduced to a single... ...commandment, we still cannot keep it. It is not that we cannot keep everything but we can keep some. The truth is that we cannot keep even one out of the whole thing. We cannot keep any of it. The belief that our inability to keep the law is merely partial is why many of us...

Being loved by God also means that God is pleased with us. I noticed that there's a way we often separate the two, like God can love us but not be pleased with us. At least, that's what legalism/religion would have us believe. God loves us independent of our performances,... ...likewise He is pleased with us independent of our performances. Until we get this, we will not rest in His love for us. We might pay lip service to living loved, but the truth is we are actually far from living loved. Abba loves us and is pleased with us.

While we wait, let us endeavour to wait well with due diligence. Waiting is a matter of being preoccupied with Christ, not a matter of just waiting for something to happen. It is not a call to kill time. Waiting periods are not empty periods. Because our theologies are often that of self-efforts and not of Grace, we see waiting period through the lens of dos and don'ts. We translate waiting to mean "not doing something or something not happening." So, most of our waiting is done with eyes on what is to come...

We are in that age where people now accuse and condemn others for trusting God personally concerning life issues. You trust God for safety and you escaped an accident where others die, they shut you up from thanking God and calling it a testimony. When did faith in God become communal and not personal? I still wonder. Apply the same logic to salvation and you will see that those saying we should not thank God for exempting us from the ills that befall others are simply bereft of Abba's wisdom.

I have seen some ministers give their takes on some of the old testament figures and their influence or lack of it in their environments. In short, their conclusion was that taking the position of authority and influence in the world is not necessary for propagating the gospel. Also, they concluded that the likes of Joseph, Daniel and co who assumed positions of influence in foreign lands did not turn the foreign nations to God. Well, it is a fact, but there is a reason why they could not turn those nations to God.

You cannot separate who God is from what He has done. It is tantamount to saying that God can be known apart from Christ and His finished works. If we pursue that line of thought, we end up the same way with other religions -God apart from Christ. That is heresy. Jesus said "this is life eternal that they may know you the only true God..." (John 17:3). Life eternal refers to the finished works of Christ without which no man can possess eternal life. This life eternal brings us into the knowledge of God.

Whatever robs us of a sense of God's love for us robs us of a sense of who we really are in Christ. 1 John 3:1. We must take heed to note that in commending His love to us, Abba did not point us to creation (beautiful skies, oceans, silvers, golds and co), rather He pointed us to His own sacrifice for us.

The man in Christ is the man with a new heart. This new heart is the heart of God Himself. You have a heart that is good and godly, a heart that wants what God wants. God is at work in us both to will (to want, to desire) and to do of His good pleasure. Philippians 2:13. God Himself produces wants/desires in us, not compulsions or necessities.

Abraham had days he doubted God and days he felt maybe the promise would never be fulfilled, but there was one thing Abraham never did, he never thought maybe God was trying to get him for one sin he committed or one mistake he made, when the promise tarried. Starting from Romans 4, Paul talked about how faith is what counts for righteousness and in Romans 5:1, he talked about having peace with God because of our justification by faith. This peace is best defined in the context of what is written about Abraham.

Abba enjoys and delights in all He does. Run through Genesis 1 and you will see Him exclaiming "good!" after each thing He created. He's the Father of delight. He delights in what He does and does only what delights Him. In Christ, you are His workmanship (meaning finished product cum masterpiece). Oh! How much He must delight in you then. In Revelations 4:11, the elders say He made all things for His pleasure (enjoyment and delight). God is not enduring His creation as religion would portray.

"Grace is not a license to sin" is a very unnecessary and ungodly thing to say. Think about it this way. You walk into your doctor, he diagnoses the problem and makes prescription and just as you are going out of his office, he looks at you and says, "those prescribed drugs are not a license for you to fall sick". Tell me, will you take such a statement lying low? Will you say he has spoken well? Will you want to visit such a physician again? Will you think he is making sense? Will you take his statement as medically sound?

Abba is not a cautious Lover. He is not afraid that His love might be taken for granted. It is the world, not Abba, that teaches us to be cautious lovers. We love with wary eyes, watching out for the slightest sign that we might be taken for granted. The world tells us it is okay to remain in that shackle of insecurity. Insecure lovers, it tries to make many. Love with watchful eyes, what the world propagates. We love with suspicion. That in itself is a fear.