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Peace for Troubled Hearts
Dr. David Davis
John 14:1-2
We come to a very important time between Jesus and His disciples. Consoling the disciples was very important to Him so they would be prepared for His departure.
Some believe these words in John 14:1-2 are restricted to just funerals. These words were spoken for the living and not for the dead.
God doesn't want us to have troubled hearts. It is through trouble, however, that we have good uses of trouble.
One of the problems of life is that we reject external trouble and this is something we should never do.
Life here is the trouble of the heart. The truth is -- the trouble that lies outside the heart lies, not only within the will of God, but it is directed by God to be our benefactor and our great helper.
Through much trial we enter into the Kingdom of God.
God does sometime send and allow difficulties into our lives to shape us in the thing He is trying to do.
Romans 8:28 -- Many things are working toward the accomplishment of the one exclusive purpose of God in the life of the believer and that is to bring us to the ultimate conformity of the image of His Son.
When God first saves us, we are sort of like a block of granite. And God sees in that the image of what Christ is like -- that He wants to shape us and mold us like a great sculptor, but He sees so many deficiencies, so many unChristlike characteristics that He hardly knows where to start.
So He takes one characteristic and then another. Perhaps it is impatience. He puts us in the pressure-cooker situation and we can't be and do anything, but be patient.
He works on us and works on us and finally that piece is chipped off. Then there is something else.
Perhaps it is unforgiveness so He puts in a trial where we have to forgive when someone has done us wrong.
Through the chisel of trials, from conversion to glorification, He is constantly taking away the unChristlike things in our life, that we might ultimately ...
Dr. David Davis
John 14:1-2
We come to a very important time between Jesus and His disciples. Consoling the disciples was very important to Him so they would be prepared for His departure.
Some believe these words in John 14:1-2 are restricted to just funerals. These words were spoken for the living and not for the dead.
God doesn't want us to have troubled hearts. It is through trouble, however, that we have good uses of trouble.
One of the problems of life is that we reject external trouble and this is something we should never do.
Life here is the trouble of the heart. The truth is -- the trouble that lies outside the heart lies, not only within the will of God, but it is directed by God to be our benefactor and our great helper.
Through much trial we enter into the Kingdom of God.
God does sometime send and allow difficulties into our lives to shape us in the thing He is trying to do.
Romans 8:28 -- Many things are working toward the accomplishment of the one exclusive purpose of God in the life of the believer and that is to bring us to the ultimate conformity of the image of His Son.
When God first saves us, we are sort of like a block of granite. And God sees in that the image of what Christ is like -- that He wants to shape us and mold us like a great sculptor, but He sees so many deficiencies, so many unChristlike characteristics that He hardly knows where to start.
So He takes one characteristic and then another. Perhaps it is impatience. He puts us in the pressure-cooker situation and we can't be and do anything, but be patient.
He works on us and works on us and finally that piece is chipped off. Then there is something else.
Perhaps it is unforgiveness so He puts in a trial where we have to forgive when someone has done us wrong.
Through the chisel of trials, from conversion to glorification, He is constantly taking away the unChristlike things in our life, that we might ultimately ...
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