God loves me

God loves me  -  Not because of who I am  -   Or what I do  -    Or how pleasing I am to Him

He loves me   ……   Because of who He is

So His love is strong, dependable and faithful   -   Dependent only on His nature

Not on any of me   -    How reassuring is that !!!

So ……  do we view all our situations in the light of the fact that ……..God loves me

Do we say in tough times ……  How is God’s love for me seen in this situation?

Or ……When things go wrong is our first response to question God ?

What we should really question is ……our mis-understanding

Mis-understanding means …..We’ve missed the understanding ……  from His perspective

We so easily forget that our understanding  is flawed   -   by the flesh or our minds

and that God’s understanding is powered   -  by faith

The disciples were mis-understanding on many occasions  - like the death of Lazarus

But …… it’s like looking at a message in code

It doesn’t make sense, it has no message

But …… if we can decipher the code it is often very simple

although sometimes there may be several layers to the code

Faith is what deciphers the code in the situations we go through

When we look at things from the mind & not the spirit

things so easily seem tough, threatening overwhelming etc

and rather than seek to understand or decode with the spirit

we mis-understand

We’ve missed the understanding ……  from His perspective

we might shout at the One who we believe sent the situation

What are You doing to me?

This makes no sense at all !!

When all that He wants us to do is to draw close and see the situation from His perspective

Consider  -  o kuti xua  -  it makes no sense at all

but with a simple code

 replacing each vowel with the previous vowel

so an ‘e’ becomes ‘a’ and an 'i' becomes an 'e' etc

 replacing each consonant with the consonant following … so  ‘b’  becomes  ‘c’

then the message is simple – it says  I love you
What looked like nonsense just needed a different perspective 
of knowing the code

And that is God’s heart in everything we go through
He loves us and we should look at every challenge from that perspective

So …… don’t get angry at Him………Ask the question

How is God’s love for me seen in this trial ?

That’s what we really need to know