Promises, Trust, Forgiveness, and Hope

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In addition to the skills in two courses I taught in middle school, the academic aim was for the student to learn about 300 new words / concepts and apply them to thinking skills.  The skills part of the course work was fun and most everybody did well.  However, with the 300 required academic items in the course, a course they volunteered for, it was a challenge getting them to study for a good grade on the academics.  For most students, the key was to give them hope.  

I promised the students at the beginning of the semester if they made a bad grade on a test, they could retake the questions they missed and if they made a 65 or better on the customized retake tests they would get credit for what they answered correctly.  This grading system involved forgiveness in that once you answered a question correctly it was if you had never missed it; all the previous wrong answers for a question were forgotten.  

With that process, a good student could make 65 (failing) on all the customized retake tests and earn a final 98 on the testing portion of their overall grade in the class.  It took a couple of weeks for some of the students to really trust me in the process.  However, even with a path of hope and forgiveness leading to greatness, I had a few students that were hopelessly time selfish.  Selfishly lazy with their time and in their laziness, overwhelmingly failed in caring about themselves to learn and know what was good for them and their future.

Our Experiences

Our First experience of Promises, Trust, Forgiveness, and Hope (PTFH) is our parents.  In the inherent promise of parenthood, children should experience trust, and hope even in the midst of the problems we create as children.  We depend on our parents for everything, especially forgiveness, and if we are fortunate children we have a good experience that influences us in all our other experiences of PTFH.  The better our parents keep the promise of being good parents the better outlook on life we have.  Good parents never stop being good examples to their children.

In our marriages we experience PTFH, some with good relationships, some not so good.  But, there is assurance in one relationship that will not fail us.

As we read in the Gospels, Jesus made many promises to those who accept Him.  Here are but Seven:

Matthew 25:12 NIV

"But he replied, 'I tell you the truth, I don't know you.'

Matthew 9:6 NIV

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins . . ." Then he said to the paralytic, "Get up, take your mat and go home."

John 14:1 NIV

[Jesus Comforts His Disciples] 
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

John 12:36 NIV

Put your trust in the light while you have it, so that you may become sons of light." When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them.

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John 14:6 NIV

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.
                               No one comes to the Father except through me.

·        John 8:51 NIV

I tell you the truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."

John 14:26 NIV

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

The Truth of Jesus' Promises

Matthew 28:6 NIV

He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 

In all of our problems, many of the same problems Jesus lived through, we have His many Promises.  But, in reality, His Promises go beyond Hope.  As God raised Jesus from death, Jesus' promises were made and shown to be the Absolute, Unconditional Truth.  In that Truth of Jesus Words, we Trust God and Trust the words of Jesus, and in that Trust we find God's Holy Reality for our life.  We find Reality and Truth leading NOT to a life we create but a Perfect Plan for life that God creates for us; a Plan the Holy Spirit reveals to us when we simply Trust the Words of Jesus.

As my students had a path to greatness in my classes, we have a path to Great blessings in our Relationship with God and our Savior, our Lord Jesus.  As with some of my students, we must not be lazy and fail to make the grade; rather, we must live Trusting the Words of Jesus. Words Authenticated, Verified, Sanctified, and Made Holy by God in His Resurrecting of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

So,
Why is it, 
people know about Jesus 
     but do not really seek to know Him, 
they know about His promises but 
     just do not care to absorb the meaning His Words truly offer, 
they read His everlasting words but
     do not seek the spiritual content of the Words for their life,
why are they contented to exist in their ignorance
     while being oblivious to the grand opportunity 
            to Live Gloriously in His eternal Salvation.

I guess they are as some of my former students,
    living selfishly lazy in their ignorance and 
           in their stupid laziness
                overwhelmingly fail to care about themselves.
In not caring about themselves
    they fail to learn, know, and understand the Glory of
         what is good for them, their future, and their eternal Salvation.


What do you do to continue to build your Trust in God and
    further develop your Personal Relationship with Jesus Christ?
When you stand before Jesus,
     Will He just know about you or will He truly know you?

Thanks be to God.

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IT IS OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PEOPLE people that determines if we trust their words ring of the truth. But, there was a man whose words that came to be known as the absolute Truth. A Truth We Trust, and Trusting in His Promises and Forgiveness we have our Hope for the future. Please share the message on your Fb page as you like, and if you like, click the FB 'Follow' button to have notifications of these publications.  For other messages like this, visit my FB page, or on FB visit-"A Daily Thought Group".
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