All Good Things Come from Him by Pablo Giacopelli
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By Pablo Giacopelli
The moment we think that something begins with us or our religious practice we need to understand that it is very likely that we have become involved within the space of a performance based religion and not a life giving grace based relationship with God. You see life begins in and within God. Forgiveness begins in and within God. Grace begins in and within God. Your true identity begins in and within God. . The Bible is clear about this when for example it tells us in 1 John 4:19 "We love because He first loved us." All good things come from God with no conditions attached. The Bible is clear about this. Take for example the birth of a child or better yet a time of great satisfaction given to a parent by a child.
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The moment we think that something begins with us or our religious practice we need to understand that it is very likely that we have become involved within the space of a performance based religion and not a life giving grace based relationship with God.
You see life begins in and within God. Forgiveness begins in and within God. Grace begins in and within God. Your true identity begins in and within God. . The Bible is clear about this when for example it tells us in 1 John 4:19 "We love because He first loved us."
All good things come from God with no conditions attached. The Bible is clear about this. Take for example the birth of a child or better yet a time of great satisfaction given to a parent by a child. Suddenly there is a magical moment that transpires where feelings beyond us begin to flow from within us. Things like unconditional love, affirmation, joy, and plain old well-being. All of these originate from God. Saying that these are only from God if we have put our hand up in a meeting or we attend Church every Sunday means that these are merely an accident or worse yet they come from the enemy of our hearts.
We need to understand today more than ever that "all good things" including all of us, no mater how far off the way we are currently traveling on come from God. Having the eyes to see this will go a very long way towards helping us to deconstruct the religious barriers that so often prevent so many of us from being able to see Gods' involvement in everyday life where we so often think He is absent. Suddenly we will be able to experience and see a side of life that is truly out of this world because it originates from without this world.
In fact I am convinced today more than ever that such will be the impact that this new found ability will have upon us that suddenly many of us will find ourselves loving the very people Jesus loved and often, though many of us don't, choose to hang around with.
Pablo Giacopelli
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"God is on my side" I heard someone say the other day as they shared about a dispute they were having with someone else. As I sat there listening to this person give me all the details about why they thought God was on their side and not on the other party's side I began to wonder. So many of us are so quick to say that God must be on our side because of what we have read and others have told us. Clearly when it comes to the way he feels towards us as our father this is indisputable – He always has and always will be on our side. However, can this be also said when we fight and argue with each other about what after all often only amounts to egotistical pettiness?
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I have driven on many third world countries in my time. South Africa is one of these which I happen to often visit. Without fault every time I have been in a car at some stage of my visit, I have had to experience the impact that the regular power cuts have on the traffic signals in this nation. I remember last time I was there when once again while having to endure along with everyone else another blackout, I noticed something that I had never seen before when I came to a non-working traffic light. There is never an accident when the lights are not working whereas when they are working correctly there are plenty. How can this be? Well here is what my heart showed me.
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When we choose to live a life where controlling and watching everything we say and do is king, the impact of our involvement is automatically limited as our heart and mind begin to fight between them for the supremacy of our beings. Consider an archer. If he is free to shoot his arrows anywhere he wants he will have the whole of his talent (heart) available to him. He will have no future results in his mind and will therefore almost always hit whatever he desires. Now take the same archer and ask him to hit the apple above your head and you immediately put him in a space where the potential of being divided is available to him.