The Good News - A Journey of a Life Time Volume 2, No. 26

Welcome to this weeks column, The Good News - A Journey of a Lifetime Lesson Volume 2 No. 26. This week’s column we will learn how to become more comfortable with spending time with God and also learning three important characters of God. I pray this help someone or many people grow closer to God.

How to Get Comfortable With God!

Do you know how much God loves you?

God proved His love for us through His Son, Jesus, who died for our sins. But for some reason, it’s hard to carry on a conversation with Him. We can be so distant or believe God is far away, somewhere up in the sky where we can never reach Him.

But Jesus didn’t die so He could give us religion; He gave His life so we can have a close, personal, intimate relationship with God.

We need to get comfortable with God. I don’t mean we should ever be disrespectful, but we should be confident that He loves us and that He wants us to spend time with us.

The Importance of

Spending Time With God

First Corinthians 8:6 says that God created us to live for Him. He’s given us the gift of life and He wants us to enjoy it!

You can have a joyful, fulfilling life by living in close, personal relationship with God. But in order to get there, you have to spend time with Him. God doesn’t want to just be the button we push when we have an emergency.

Whether we know it or not, we all desperately need God all the time. Without Him operating in our lives, helping and protecting us, there isn’t one of us who knows one iota about anything we’re doing!

Unlimited Time,

Unlimited Blessings

You and I can spend as much time as we want with God. We have an open invitation to invite the Creator of the universe into our life each day. We get to speak to Him personally and discover who He really is as we study the Bible, which is our instruction book for life.

The devil doesn’t like that. That’s why he works so hard to tell us that we have to be perfect for God to love us and accept us. But the truth is we aren’t ever going to be perfect in this life. That’s why Jesus went to the cross for us!

Hebrews 4:16 says, Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

God loves us unconditionally and accepts us just as we are. As we spend time with Him, He works in our hearts and changes us little by little, so we can become everything He created us to be.

James 4:8 says, Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.... The moment you accepted Christ into your heart, God made His home in you. So kick up your feet, get cozy and enjoy the company.

Once you Understand

Character, You

Will Understand God!

It’s important to know God’s character. Why? It gives us discernment. If we don’t know the character of God, how can we ever know who is from God and who is not from God?

The Bible says don’t believe everything that comes down the pike. You have to test and try the spirits. ((1 John 4:1) We need to know what is God and what is not God. And we need to recognize God in our daily activity.

Let’s Look at Three

Important Traits

Of God’s Character

1. Justice: Out of all the aspects of God’s wonderful character, the one I personally enjoy studying the most is justice. God is a God of justice. That word justice is so awesome because it means that He will always make anything that’s wrong right. For example, if somebody mistreats me, I don’t have to worry about it because God is going to bring justice. He loves justice.

I learned from God that God showed me during my prayer time that nobody can really cheat you if you keep your faith in God. If somebody takes something from you, don’t sweat it. Even if God has to work it out through a hundred people to get it all the way back around to you, you will get it back.

“Nobody can mistreat you and get by with it if you have your faith in God.”

One way or the other, what was unjustly taken from you will come back to you. Nobody can mistreat you and get by with it if you have your faith in God.

2. Goodness: God is good—this fact never changes. And He’s good all the time—not just once in awhile or when things go your way. Psalm 34:8 says, Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him (NIV).

Let me tell you something: When you are having personal trouble and all hell seems to be coming against you, one of the best things you can do is speak this out loud, “God is good. God is good. I may be having trouble, but it is not God’s fault. God is good.”

3. Holiness: God is holy. What does that mean? In the Greek, to be holy is to be righteous—or to be right. You know I think it would make our lives a whole lot easier if we would realize that God is always righteous.

To be honest, realizing that whatever He does is right whether I like it or not has helped me in my walk with God.

He’s always right. Whether it feels good to me or not, it’s right. And whether or not I agree with it, He’s right.

God’s Amazing

Character Is Our Example

These three traits are not the only characteristics of God, but they are three significant and powerful ones. With the help of the Holy Spirit, each of us can incorporate these traits in our own personality.

I encourage you to spend some time looking up these three traits in the Bible and studying the magnificent character of Christ.

Find a good concordance or use an online Bible search engine and discover what the Word says about justice, goodness and holiness. Then study these three traits for the next thirty days, begin to practice them in your daily life, and see what God does…You won’t be disappointed.