Deserving our blessings
With every truly converted soul the relation to God and to eternal things will be the great topic of life. –Great Controversy, p. 463
We deserve everything we get.
Two great postulates form the above conclusion: 1) We have a right to every blessing we get, and 2) Every curse is a blessing.
On what basis do we deserve our blessings? Because we were born; we are all children of God by creation. And God don’t make trash. God has high expectations of us all. Every soul conceived in this life is bound for eternal life with Him. Everyone should be there. He should be able to welcome tens of billions of Adam’s children. The fanfare should be out of this world!
Imagine the infinite joy of God to see all His human family with Him for eternity, to have them safely under His wings and to cause them to trust under His jealous protection. Our God is a God of love. Love is all He can do. We are royalty because He loves us and because we were born royalty. We were born royalty because He wanted us created.
The moment Adam was formed by the hands of the Son of God, Adam was special, more special than the highest angel. Not more intelligent, not stronger, not more talented, than the angels; but more delicate, more self-depricating, special. For the least are greatest in God’s sight.
In the garden, before sin, Adam deserved everything God had given him because he was made in God’s image, and God deserves the best. As long as Adam and his progeny retain the image of God, his whole family on earth are royalty and deserve the best.
We own a unique and amazing world. Despite the incursion of sin’s curse, the infinite variety of animal and plant species and their make-up offers unending study by Adam’s children forever—a picture of God and His unnumbered solar systems and quasars and nebulae and galaxies that fill His vast universe.
Jesus personally and unequivocally cursed “the ground…for man’s sake” (Gen. 8:21). “Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”
Every curse is a blessing? Was it hard for the Son of God to curse Adam and make the ground difficult to grow food? Yes, hard work is a blessing in disguise. Every curse of a loving God is really a blessing for those He loves. And He loves us all.
All God’s curses, blessings? Even death? “…In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground”? Yes, even death. Murder? War? Disease? Abuse? Yes, all blessings. Was there angst in the heart of the Lord God that day? Yes, He who had already experienced it all the moment Adam fell knew how bad it would be. But our God “is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living.” (Mk. 12:27). By His power to create and to resurrect Adam, “he being dead yet speaketh.” (Heb. 11:4). And the same promise holds for us, too. Thus, He can punish with love.
Is it hard for a father to punish his little boy the very first time? Away with the idea that a loving father’s first spanking is taking revenge on his son. We need to rethink God’s character if we believe He doles out punishment tyrannically. It’s always hard for a loving human father to punish his children, but he must for his child’s sake. If we being evil know how to do good for our children, how much more our Father in heaven when He executes judgment?
We deserve everything we get, both blessings and curses, and all curses are blessings in disguise. Because, by redemption we have the right to be saved; and by creation we deserve only the best. And God is quick to give both.
In conclusion, we have the right to be loved by an infinitely loving God.
“For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
But though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.
For He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
To crush under His feet all the prisoners of the earth,
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.” (Lam. 3:31-36).
We deserve everything we get.
Two great postulates form the above conclusion: 1) We have a right to every blessing we get, and 2) Every curse is a blessing.
On what basis do we deserve our blessings? Because we were born; we are all children of God by creation. And God don’t make trash. God has high expectations of us all. Every soul conceived in this life is bound for eternal life with Him. Everyone should be there. He should be able to welcome tens of billions of Adam’s children. The fanfare should be out of this world!
Imagine the infinite joy of God to see all His human family with Him for eternity, to have them safely under His wings and to cause them to trust under His jealous protection. Our God is a God of love. Love is all He can do. We are royalty because He loves us and because we were born royalty. We were born royalty because He wanted us created.
The moment Adam was formed by the hands of the Son of God, Adam was special, more special than the highest angel. Not more intelligent, not stronger, not more talented, than the angels; but more delicate, more self-depricating, special. For the least are greatest in God’s sight.
In the garden, before sin, Adam deserved everything God had given him because he was made in God’s image, and God deserves the best. As long as Adam and his progeny retain the image of God, his whole family on earth are royalty and deserve the best.
We own a unique and amazing world. Despite the incursion of sin’s curse, the infinite variety of animal and plant species and their make-up offers unending study by Adam’s children forever—a picture of God and His unnumbered solar systems and quasars and nebulae and galaxies that fill His vast universe.
Jesus personally and unequivocally cursed “the ground…for man’s sake” (Gen. 8:21). “Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”
Every curse is a blessing? Was it hard for the Son of God to curse Adam and make the ground difficult to grow food? Yes, hard work is a blessing in disguise. Every curse of a loving God is really a blessing for those He loves. And He loves us all.
All God’s curses, blessings? Even death? “…In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground”? Yes, even death. Murder? War? Disease? Abuse? Yes, all blessings. Was there angst in the heart of the Lord God that day? Yes, He who had already experienced it all the moment Adam fell knew how bad it would be. But our God “is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living.” (Mk. 12:27). By His power to create and to resurrect Adam, “he being dead yet speaketh.” (Heb. 11:4). And the same promise holds for us, too. Thus, He can punish with love.
Is it hard for a father to punish his little boy the very first time? Away with the idea that a loving father’s first spanking is taking revenge on his son. We need to rethink God’s character if we believe He doles out punishment tyrannically. It’s always hard for a loving human father to punish his children, but he must for his child’s sake. If we being evil know how to do good for our children, how much more our Father in heaven when He executes judgment?
We deserve everything we get, both blessings and curses, and all curses are blessings in disguise. Because, by redemption we have the right to be saved; and by creation we deserve only the best. And God is quick to give both.
In conclusion, we have the right to be loved by an infinitely loving God.
“For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
But though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.
For He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
To crush under His feet all the prisoners of the earth,
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.” (Lam. 3:31-36).
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