Comments on: If God Left Us Broken, There Would Be No Hope http://devotionalchristian.com/if-god-left-us-broken/ Encouragement for your daily walk with God, featuring all the best daily devotionals online. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:52:23 +0000 hourly 1 By: Emily Schankweiler http://devotionalchristian.com/if-god-left-us-broken/#comment-121 Emily Schankweiler Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:03:28 +0000 http://devotionalchristian.com/?p=718#comment-121 Hi Wally, thanks for your comments and your thoughts. Its so true that having hope in God is equal to trusting God. I'm grateful for how He has always met me in my need, and over the years, I have seen my hope and trust in Him grow as a result of seeing His faithfulness. It is also true that that trust should result in actions, such as caring for the needy. Great thoughts! thanks! Emily Hi Wally,
thanks for your comments and your thoughts. Its so true that having hope in God is equal to trusting God. I’m grateful for how He has always met me in my need, and over the years, I have seen my hope and trust in Him grow as a result of seeing His faithfulness.

It is also true that that trust should result in actions, such as caring for the needy. Great thoughts! thanks!
Emily

]]> By: Wally Pipp http://devotionalchristian.com/if-god-left-us-broken/#comment-118 Wally Pipp Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:34:40 +0000 http://devotionalchristian.com/?p=718#comment-118 I have been spending time studying "hope." One of my greatest discoveries was that the word "hope" in greek and hebrew means "trust." When you have hope that means that you trust God. If you replaced this in your title it would read "If God Left Us Broken, There Would Be No Trust" I think that this reads so much more powerful. If God did not meet us in our need how could we trust Him? Some may say that He has never literally helped them. I would have to ask if you were obedient to what Jesus taught, the Bible says and how the Holy Spirit led you? In the parable of the sower, the seed is the word. The seed that feel on the path the Bible says that a bird took the word, the seed that feel on the rocky place had on root and theseed the feel among the thorns was choked out by the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches. I agrue the these three groups lacked either faith, hope or love. When it talks about hope it says that the seed had no root in itself. I think that there is an owness (spelling?) on Christians to develop their root. And I think that we do this by building on the foundation of Jesus, who humbled himself and served. We too should be serving one another. If we do this, God is attentive to our asking. Read John 15: 1 - 17. There is a command placed on Christians to love God and Love our neighbor. Too often we love church. Church too often is lost in church growth and has forgotten the widows, orhans and homeless. Let's get back to true Christianity. The frustrations you mentioned in your blog are not from God. When we bless others, helping people who cannot help us back, doing more for them than they asked, (and not what we think they need) God shows up. Read Isaiah 58. IT says that if you feed the hungry, cloth the naked, shelter the homeless, help your flesh and blood, "then" he will make your light shine, heal you, protect you, restore you, answer your prayer. By helping others, we enter His rest. We judge them worhty to be helped, and He judges us worthy to be helped. Jesus said that if you give one of His disciples something as small as a cup of cold water in the name of being a disciple you will not fail to receive your reward in this life and in the life to come. God id faithful. Are we? When you try these things and God answers your prayer you then can trust Him and your root grows stronger. I have been spending time studying “hope.” One of my greatest discoveries was that the word “hope” in greek and hebrew means “trust.” When you have hope that means that you trust God. If you replaced this in your title it would read “If God Left Us Broken, There Would Be No Trust” I think that this reads so much more powerful. If God did not meet us in our need how could we trust Him?

Some may say that He has never literally helped them. I would have to ask if you were obedient to what Jesus taught, the Bible says and how the Holy Spirit led you?

In the parable of the sower, the seed is the word. The seed that feel on the path the Bible says that a bird took the word, the seed that feel on the rocky place had on root and theseed the feel among the thorns was choked out by the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches. I agrue the these three groups lacked either faith, hope or love. When it talks about hope it says that the seed had no root in itself. I think that there is an owness (spelling?) on Christians to develop their root. And I think that we do this by building on the foundation of Jesus, who humbled himself and served. We too should be serving one another. If we do this, God is attentive to our asking. Read John 15: 1 – 17. There is a command placed on Christians to love God and Love our neighbor. Too often we love church. Church too often is lost in church growth and has forgotten the widows, orhans and homeless. Let’s get back to true Christianity.

The frustrations you mentioned in your blog are not from God. When we bless others, helping people who cannot help us back, doing more for them than they asked, (and not what we think they need) God shows up. Read Isaiah 58. IT says that if you feed the hungry, cloth the naked, shelter the homeless, help your flesh and blood, “then” he will make your light shine, heal you, protect you, restore you, answer your prayer. By helping others, we enter His rest. We judge them worhty to be helped, and He judges us worthy to be helped. Jesus said that if you give one of His disciples something as small as a cup of cold water in the name of being a disciple you will not fail to receive your reward in this life and in the life to come. God id faithful. Are we? When you try these things and God answers your prayer you then can trust Him and your root grows stronger.

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