Revelation 14:13<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Then I heard a voice from heaven say, \u201cWrite this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord\u00a0from now on.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYes,\u201d says the Spirit,\u00a0\u201cthey will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
God is good all the time and He loves us.\u00a0 This is not a nice something to repeat and then forget about as we go on our merry way.\u00a0 The evidence surrounds us.\u00a0 When we smile at each other and say something like this, we must let it sink in. As we consider God, as we increasingly know Him, He changes our lives.\u00a0 His love indwells us and changes us. \u00a0Every day of our lives this truth is lived out and, if it were not so, we would either not be alive, or our destiny would be the horrid death of those who pass on from the first death to the eternal second death.\u00a0 But those who love and serve Christ are not as these, we are Christ\u2019s very own beloved (Revelation 20:6, 14<\/b>).\u00a0 Daily, hourly, by the minute, and by the second we walk in the love and blessings of God.\u00a0 Even the unbeliever is walking in the love and blessings of God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Don\u2019t we all know that the devil hates us?\u00a0 He has a special hate for those who have come to the Lord, yet he would love to devour every single human being redeemed or not.\u00a0 Why does he hate us so?\u00a0 Why does he so passionately hate us and want to rip us apart and let us lie and decay where we lie.\u00a0 One reason is that we were made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26<\/b>), whom He hates.\u00a0 Also he hates us because God loves us so greatly (Jeremiah 31:3, John 3:16<\/b>).\u00a0 The devil would just as soon kill all the unredeemed right now to make sure that they do not repent and come to Christ.\u00a0 People, Family, He HATES us.\u00a0 The only reason he cannot have his full way is because God LOVES us.\u00a0 It is God who is the reason and the cause that we wake every day and that we have all the blessings that we have.\u00a0 God loves us, watches over us, and is aware of every detail in our lives (Psalm 139:1-6, Hebrews 4:13, Luke 12:7, Matthew 6:26<\/b>). God has always watched over all of His creation.<\/span><\/p>\n Here, in these two verses, God is reminding them that He sees all that they endure.\u00a0 He sees those who hold onto to him and endure the suffering and pain of this world because they love Him more than anything on this world, even their own earthly lives.\u00a0 God is telling the saints who come to Him during the Great Tribulation that He sees and they will get their reward.\u00a0 Now in this end times, the believers are still called to \u201clove your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 22:39<\/b>).\u201d All the Antichrist worshipers who hate the Christians are to be loved and the Gospel shared with them (Matthew 28:19-20<\/b>). \u00a0They are then, as we are now, proof of the goodness and love of God.\u00a0 Those who say they belong to Jesus will forgive as they are forgiven, then and now, or we are not His (Matthew 6:14<\/b>).\u00a0 Christians then must remember that they are only on earth at that time because they had previously rejected the grace of God, otherwise they would have been raptured.\u00a0 They, as we must now do, remember that we are only saved by God\u2019s grace and not by our own works (Ephesians 2:8-9<\/b>).\u00a0 So all the deceived people that are then persecuting and killing them are merely in the same condition that they once were (1 Corinthians 6:11<\/b>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Family, God sees what they go through and their sacrifice to continue to love.\u00a0 It is the same for us.\u00a0 Remember that we live today only because of His love and thereby His blessings.\u00a0 The Lord will reward those who persevere and are obedient to their calling.\u00a0 He will do it for them, and He will do it for us.\u00a0 God is good all the time and He loves us!\u00a0 Praise God<\/span><\/p>\n Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Revelation 14:13\u00a0–\u00a0Then I heard a voice from heaven say, \u201cWrite this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord\u00a0from now on.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYes,\u201d says the Spirit,\u00a0\u201cthey will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.\u201d God is good all the time and He loves us.\u00a0 This is not a nice something to repeat…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[129,1841,1865,104,99,100,101,94,17,711],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-corinthians","tag-ephesians","tag-genesis","tag-hebrews","tag-jeremiah","tag-john","tag-matthew","tag-micah","tag-psalm","tag-revelation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}