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In Psalm
35 the Psalmist begs and pleads with God to be on his side. I
cannot imagine a more universal desire than to have the God of the
universe favour you. I even encounter this desire among agnostics who
say that if there is a God they hope he's just, and if he's just he'll
be good to them. We all want God to be on our side. There is seldom
a war fought by anyone who doesn't believe God to be on their side.
In Joshua
5:13-15 Joshua asks the Lord, “Are you for us, or for our enemies?”
The Lord's reply is cryptic; God is not on a side.
God is love. He loves us with perfect
and infinite love, and I'm coming to believe that God even loves us more than
we love ourselves, and wants more for us than we want for ourselves.
Left to our own, we might ask God to give us wealth and peace, but God gives us greater peace and greater wealth in Christ than our minds
can conceive. Through the Holy Spirit, God gives us more that we can ask or even imagine (Ephesians
3:20). God is not on our sinful self-destructive side; but God
loves us too much for that.
Challenge:
Who's side are you on? Is it more your own than it is God's? Jesus promises that if we seek his kingdom first that he will provide for us (Matthew 6:33). Take comfort in that word today know that you are free to love generously.
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