![]() ![]() When confusion threatens, God welcomes the hard questions. It instructs us how to live worthy of this wondrous gift we have received. It shares the story of a love so great that He stretched out His arms to die in our place, and of a redemption so welcoming that those same arms are flung wide to embrace and pull us close. It teaches us that He has a plan for our lives. The Bible tells us Who created us and how we came to be here. Heaven and earth will pass away, but God will dot every “i” and cross every “t” of His Word (Matthew 5:18). God has blessed us with the border of His Word. ![]() The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever. If you are praying for the return of a loved one, He stands at the Door with you, waiting and watching and longing, too. If the road has taken you far away from the Father, He stands waiting for you at the Door. ![]() He embraced and kissed him and called for a celebration even as his son cried out, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son” (Luke 15:21). No! He was filled with compassion and flew down the road to meet him. Did he slam the door? Did he turn away in disgust? Remember the story of the prodigal son? The father must have stood in the door, watching the road day, after day because when the son was still far away, he saw him. Through this Door, God is accessible and available to every single person. He sent His Son to build a bridge back to Him. God has blessed us with borders, but these boundaries have not built walls between us. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. That power will accomplish more than we can even imagine. ![]() In fact, Ephesians 3:20 tells us that God will do "exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us." That same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead now works in us. He shows us what it means to truly experience a full-to-the-brim life of abundance. We now live and move and find our very existence in Christ Jesus. At the border of the Cross, God quickens the dead. We were governed by selfish desires and were headed for God’s wrath.Įven in this sinful state, God sent Jesus to die and rise again for us. We walked hand in hand with the evil in this world. We once were dead in sins and trespasses. And not just a barely-getting-by kind of life, but an overflowing-with-abundance kind of life! You can trust Him to raise you up again.īut God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved) …Īt the border of the Cross, dead things cross over to life. In the middle of the trial, allow Him to come and fill you with His peace. Peter speaks this beautiful declaration: “But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you” (1 Peter 5:10). His eyes are watching over us, and His ears are attuned to our prayers. Peter encourages us to throw the whole weight of our anxieties on Jesus because He cares for us. If we humble ourselves under God’s mighty hand, when He deems the time is right, He will raise us up again (1 Peter 5:6-7). The apostle Peter has some reassuring advice for us. We can bring those burdens and entrust them to Jesus, or we can continue to bend under their weight. Our faith shrivels into fear, and worry becomes our constant companion.Īt the border of the Cross, we have a choice to make. We are tempted to doubt God’s love and His good plans for us. If we are honest, trials can fill us with uncertainty. Jesus warned us that we would have trouble in this life, but He tells us to find peace in Him, to be of good cheer. In the world you will have tribulation but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. ![]()
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