Antidepressant...(21Sep09)

A real Gem:

I read this in Galatians and it was "fresh" to me - so I want to share it
with you and pray it would ReFresh your Spirit.

Gal 3:7 "Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. 8
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith,
preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, In you shall all the
nations be blessed. 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with
Abraham, the man of faith.
10 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is
written, Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the
Book of the Law, and do them. 11 Now it is evident that no one is justified
before God by the law, for The righteous shall live by faith. 12 But the law
is not of faith, rather The one who does them shall live by them. 13 Christ
redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us written,
Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree< 14 so that in Christ
Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might
receive the promised Spirit through faith."

Especially this line: " ...so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham
might come to the Gentiles ..."

This is what John Piper shared on this Scripture:
"The second thing is that the promises that come to you as part of Abraham's
covenant are more spectacular than anything you will see or hear this
season. Just consider Gen. 17:7, "I will establish my covenant between me
and you and your descendants after you throughout this generation for an
everlasting covenant to be God to you and to your descendants after you."
The heart of the Abrahamic covenant is that God will be God to us. He will
be our God. The longer you meditate on that deceptively simple truth the
more spectacular it becomes. Jeremiah tells us what it means. He quotes God:
"They shall be my people and I will be their God S I will not turn away from
doing good to them S I will rejoice in doing good to them S with all my
heart and with all my soul" (32:38-41). It boggles the mind to try to
imagine what it must mean if the God who made the planets and stars and
galaxies and molecules and protons and neutrons and electrons rejoices to do
you good with all his heart and with all his soul. If God is God for you
then all his omnipotence and all his omniscience are engaged all the time to
do good for you in all the circumstances of your life."
© COPYRIGHT 1983, 1998 John Piper.

This is the Gospel Paul preached and this is the Good News Jesus came to
release - God's message to man: God is in a good mood!

Be encouraged, be ReFreshed coz  you are a Son by your faith in Jesus.
We are blessed, we are whole, we are "rich", we are free ....its part of our
blessing.
LottaLove
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