My father was the King of the understatement.  When he said “good job” it usually meant “that was outstanding”.

I am not claiming that God is an understater, but I want to make mention of this important point as I write this blog today.

When God says, it is good—-it means INCREDIBLE or MIRACULOUS or OUT OF THIS WORLD.

So when God says “everything we need” we need consider what that truly means.

2 Peter 1 3His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

Peter isn’t just writing this in some book.  He lived it.  His failure at the time of Jesus’ execution is well documented.  Bragging, anger, falling asleep during prayer, and then—–abandoning Jesus.

When Peter realized his mistakes and became REAL—God restored him and restored him immediately.

God doesn’t give freedom to those who are trapped and heading in the wrong direction.  But He gives freedom to those who turn to Him instantaneously.

What direction are you walking?

For some reason, we have the mindset written in our nature that God will take our freedom.  But God does not take our freedom—He gives it to us.  And He gives it to any who will take it.

Ezekiel 36 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

We are bound by our own situations.  Trapped in our own worlds.  But God is about freedom.  He is about giving us a walking path back to Him.

It is the path to freedom.

Check it out in more detail in Romans 8.

Our walk with God is not about having the perfect life.  It is about seeing things as they truly are—in the Spirit.

Let go of what you can not keep in order to attain what you can not lose.

As I drove to work a few mornings ago, I think Jeremy Camp expressed this in a way that I never could.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J