DAY 2
TOPIC: GOD WORKS ACCORDING TO HIS NATURE
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God,
and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
(1 John 4:7-8)
The love of God is unconditional; His love is constant, unchanging, and the same towards every man. Despite the situation and circumstances that occurs to us, even to our family, relatives and love ones, yet God love us.
God created you for a love relationship with Him. He yearns for you to love Him and respond to His immeasurable love for you. God’s nature is perfect, holy, total love. He will never relate to you in any other way although you may not always understand His actions. There will be times when you do not comprehend why He allows certain things to occur, and that is to be expected. He is the infinite God while we are limited human creatures. He sees the eternal ramifications of everything that happens. We don’t.
There are many things God does that we will never understand this side of heaven. But God does invite us to come to know His nature, the essence of who He is and what He is like. As you think about knowing and doing God’s will, you must first come to know who God is.
THE TREE ASPECT OF GOD YOU MUST KNOW
GOD IS LOVE — HIS WILL IS ALWAYS BEST
The nature of God is love, He will never acts against His nature. God’s kind of love always seeks His best for each person. If we reject His best, He will discipline us. However, the discipline will come from a heavenly Father who loves us and who will do whatever is necessary to bring us to a place in our lives where we can receive what He wants to give us.
GOD IS ALL-KNOWING – HIS DIRECTIONS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT
By nature God is omniscient, or all-knowing. He is not limited by the dimension of time – He knows the past, present, and future. He created all things, so nothing is outside of His knowledge. Whenever God expresses
Himself to you, therefore, His directions are always right. When God gives you a directive, you can be sure He has already considered every factor. You will never do God’s bidding only to discover that God was somehow mistaken. You can have absolute confidence that when God tells you to do something, it is the right course of action.
GOD IS ALL-POWERFUL — HE CAN ENABLE YOU TO ACCOMPLISH HIS WILL
When your life is centered in God’s activity, He will rearrange your thinking. God’s ways and thoughts are so different from yours that they will often appear wrong, unloving, or impossible. You will often realize that the
task He assigns is far beyond your power or resources to accomplish. As soon as you recognize that the job appears humanly unattainable, you need to be ready to believe God and to trust Him completely.
Knowing and doing the will of God depends on how you know Him and His nature.
