Never Say Never

GOD CAN and GOD WILL and GOD LOVES ME.

NEVER IS SUCH A TEMPORARY WORD. It will never happen. It will never change. It will always be this way. Always, too, is fleeting. Unless you apply it to Jehovah. When you read, He is unchanging, that means He is UNCHANGING. He is without any variableness. He is consistent—consistently faithful, consistently compassionate, consistently powerful. Jesus Christ, the Anointed One, is the same yesterday, today, and forever. This means what He was, He is, and He will be.

Never, on the other hand, is like cheese, apt to melt at high temperatures. I hear “never” and laugh. Because somewhere amidst those same verses about God being the same for an eternity is one that says, “Nothing is impossible.”

He gave a baby to a virgin. And not just any baby, but His Son, the Messiah. He gave His Son’s ancestor, Abraham, a son when he was 100 and his wife was 90. He gave the prophet John the Baptist to parents who were also barren.

He parted a Sea. Made the soil dry in an instant.
He parted a river and pushed it back six miles. Six miles!
He raised a man dead four days. Like beginning-to-decompose dead.
He raised a man who landed on top of a prophet’s bones. His bones!

He’s full of miracles. He didn’t get done after Jesus rose and sit back and relax. As my mother once said, The Holy Spirit is not sitting in a lounge chair. He’s working. And what He did, He will do. We just need to believe in Him. Believe He loves us that much and will work it all out.

Flick away the “nevers” and be cautious of the “always.” Say, instead, GOD CAN and GOD WILL and GOD LOVES ME. Those are far more concrete and never-ending. Eternity begins today. The abundant life we gain when we accept Jesus as Lord is ours from the day we accept Him, not “after a while” and “by-and-by.” Decide to live fully and live well in all that God’s salvation provided, knowing our loving heavenly Father can handle it. He can and will handle it. That’s a sure thing.

“For with God nothing shall be impossible.” (Luke 1:37)


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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