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“God can be trusted. After all, He has already demonstrated His unconditional love for me.”

A thought by Andy Stanley, (2009-04-23) from his book, The Best Question Ever (p. 183). The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

He already gave the ultimate gift for us even before we were born, ever before we knew we needed it.  He showed He loved us by giving His Son for us on the Cross.  So why would He do that for us?

Andy says, “God desires that your life be a masterpiece that reflects His greatness and your uniqueness. But to create a masterpiece with our lives, we must submit ourselves to the hand of the Master. We must allow Him to influence each stroke on the canvas of our lives.”

Now the problem in all of this is, we believe that we can make the masterpiece and we don’t need any help.  And many of us are doing a pretty good job and that is also the problem.

One of the principles of Church Planting and I was a Church Planter, was that the people who were the most open to going to a new church were those who were going through some transition time in their life.  Such as they were going through a divorce or they had lost their job or they had just gotten married or they had their first child or they had moved into a new neighborhood.  That is why we usually planted in a new area not an established area.  That could be also where a neighborhood is changing its demographics such as one group moving out and another moving in.  These people were open to something that would help them in their time of transition.

Let’s say it is a place where everything is stable.  Everyone has already chosen to go to a particular church or they have chosen to never go.  Those people would be very difficult to get to go to a new church.

And that is why someone who is already a success seems to think that they don't need God.  They are doing it on their own but what if they get to a point that what they thought was the right thing to do turned out all wrong?  Then they would be open to someone’s advice, to someone’s wisdom, to God.

So how are you doing is the important question?  Do you need someone who loves you unconditionally?  Do you need some help in making some decisions in your life?  Well let me introduce you to the One who loves you unconditionally and who wants to create a masterpiece of your life.  It is not too late.  He is in the business of taking water and turning it into wine and taking broken lives and turning them into wholeness.  He is waiting on you.

So why don’t you turn to Him and let Him have you completely? 

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