God is Not Against Us; Day637

For God has not appointed us to [incur His] wrath [He did not select us to condemn us], but [that we might] obtain [His] salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) . Who died for us so that whether we are still alive or are dead [at Christ’s appearing], we might live together with Him and share His life. 1Thessalonians 5:9

God Is Not Against Us
When we are facing difficulties in life, we normally thinks that this must be from God.  We started asking why God has put this upon me.  Why I am having this issue in life?  Why my workplace is such a place of unhappiness and frustration?  It is so easy for us to think that God must have been behind all these misfortune that I am experiencing.  The short answer to the question is – It’s not God putting us in the situation.  He can only allow us to be in that situation and the reason is to build us up into a better person.   It is us who place ourselves in that situation.  The law of cause and effect is  a good reference.  When we do something in this world,  there will be an effect or consequence of all our actions.   We are the one who took the step to be in that situation and not God.  Often times  out of our frustrations, we started blaming God instead of ourselves.

At misfortune:
1. Step back and regroup.
2. Don’t do anything drastic.
3. Don’t make a great change.
4. Stand back and look over your life
5. Think-God is not against you
6. Think-God is on your side no matter what
7. Wait for wisdom
8. Decide with wisdom given to you
9. Act on the wisdom given to you
10.Wait patiently for the new effect of your actions.

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Rest
Create APC System Reliability Script +OPLS
Complete Nova System Reliability Script +OPLS
Fix T06 ISRM Configuration Issue +OPLS
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Cleanup Sequence Folder-all systems
Update NST Database with current activities

Reading List
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24Hour Report
0500, End of Sleep,
0510, Coffee
0530, Study Revelation 1:5 [read more]

Barnes on 1Th 5:9 –
For God hath not appointed us to wrath – This is designed as an encouragement to effort to secure our salvation. The wish of God is to save us, and therefore we should watch and be sober; we should take to ourselves the whole of the Christian armor, and strive for victory. If he had appointed us to wrath, effort would have been in vain, for we could do nothing but yield to our inevitable destiny. The hope of a final triumph should animate us in our efforts, and cheer us in our struggles with our foes. How much does the hope of victory animate the soldier in battle! When morally certain of success, how his arm is nerved! When everything conspires to favor him, and when he seems to feel that God fights for him, and intends to give him the victory, how his heart exults, and how strong is he in battle! Hence, it was a great point among the ancients, when about entering into battle, to secure evidence that the gods favored them, and meant to give them the victory.
For this purpose they offered sacrifices, and consulted the flight of birds and the entrails of animals; and for this armies were accompanied by soothsayers and priests, that they might interpret any signs which might occur that would be favorable, or to propitiate the favor of the gods by sacrifice. See Homer, passim; Arrian’s Expedition of Alexander, and the classic writers generally. The apostle alludes to something of this kind here. He would excite us to maintain the Christian warfare manfully, by the assurance that God intends that we shall be triumphant. This we are to learn by no conjectures of soothsayers; by no observation of the flight of birds; by no sacrifice which we can make to propitiate his favor, but by the unerring assurance of his holy word. If we are Christians, we know that he intends our salvation, and that victory will be ours; if we are willing to become Christians, we know that the Almighty arm will be stretched out to aid us, and that the “gates of hell” cannot prevent it.

1Th 5:10 –
Who died for us – That is, to redeem us. He designed by his death that we should ultimately live with him; and this effect of his death could be secured only as it was an atoning sacrifice.
Whether we wake or sleep – Whether we are found among the living or the dead when he comes. The object here is to show that the one class would have no advantage over the other. This was designed to calm their minds in their trials, and to correct an error which seems to have prevailed in the belief that those who were found alive when he should return would have some priority over those who were dead; see the notes on 1Th_4:13-18.
Should live together with him – See the notes at Joh_14:3. The word rendered “together” (ἁμα  hama) is not to be regarded as connected with the phrase “with him” – as meaning that he and they would be “together,” but it refers to those who “wake and those who sleep” – those who are alive and those who are dead – meaning that they would be “together” or would be with the Lord “at the same time;” there would be no priority or precedence. Rosenmuller.