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God Brings the Ultimate Goodness from our Trials (TMF:1765)

Friday, January 14, 2022
Peace to Live By: God Brings the Ultimate Goodness from our Trials (TMF:1765) - Daniel Litton
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       And so if you’re like that today, don’t be surprised if God does allow you to blunder in order to teach you that you need to be depending on him, not your own personal ability or behavior in your own eyes and before others. To recap then, God brings good out of our successes in life, but he also can bring good out of our failures also. God brings good out of our mistakes and past sins. He brings good that could have only been brought out if you had failed. In other words, without that particular failure, he couldn’t have brought out that goodness that he has. Our trials are necessary for growth and good things in our lives. Without our sins, for instance, God couldn’t have demonstrated his ultimate love for us in the cross. He could have showed us love, but it wouldn’t have been as good, as precise, as perfect of a love. So, don’t feel bad anymore after your failure is over since now it’s God’s time to bring about his ultimate goodness.

We Depend on God for Our Righteousness (TMF:1764)

Thursday, January 13, 2022
Peace to Live By: We Depend on God for Our Righteousness (TMF:1764) - Daniel Litton
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       God desires for us to be depending on him for our righteousness. He wants us to be depending on him for how we think of ourselves internally and even for how others perceive us externally. This rakes the gears of the legalist. The legalistic Christian bases his or her whole life on their own personal conduct in life. They measure their goodness in that they don’t do this, this, and this, and the fact that they do do this, this, and this. They believe their righteousness, their standing before God and others, is completely in their control. And so if you’re like that today, don’t be surprised if God does allow you to blunder in order to teach you that you need to be depending on him, not your own personal ability or behavior in your own eyes and before others. To recap then, God brings good out of our successes in life, but he also can bring good out of our failures also. God brings good out of our mistakes and past sins.

Learning from Our Mistakes, Part 3 (TMF:1763)

Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Peace to Live By: Learning from Our Mistakes, Part 3 (TMF:1763) - Daniel Litton
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       I believe for some things the only way we can learn is through making a mistake. It’s like a little child learning to walk. At the time a child is learning to walk, he has to make mistakes which result in him falling down in order for him to learn how to walk. It’s part of the process. And it’s no different in life with us. Let me tell you a secret. Are you ready? When it comes to ourselves, we can either look at our own performance to measure how good we are in life or we can depend on God’s performance, namely what Jesus has accomplished for us. What I mean is that if you’re a person who values how good you are by your performance, then you are a person who doesn’t take well to mistakes. And this is another reason why I think God permits us to make mistakes. He doesn’t want us to be depending on our seemingly good behavior, what we think is our good performance, he doesn’t want us depending on that for our own personal righteousness.

Learning from Our Mistakes, Part 2 (TMF:1762)

Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Peace to Live By: Learning from Our Mistakes, Part 2 (TMF:1762) - Daniel Litton
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       I use to be really hard on myself in my life at the times I would make a blunder, a misstep. I would pretty much punish myself for bad choices. Maybe you can relate. Anyway, I have found that I don’t so much regret a wrong move anymore much like I use to. “And why is that?” you might ask. Well, because without making the mistake, there would have been no way for God to teach me certain things. There would have been no way for him to teach me what he wanted to teach me. And I believe this is why at times God allows us to blunder when he could have prevented us from doing so. We may say, “God, why’d you allow me to do that. Why didn’t you step in and stop me?” And the reason is he can make better come out of the wrong choice. This doesn’t mean we’re not responsible. And it doesn’t either mean God condones sin. And not all mistakes are actually sin. But, God can use them greatly for our benefit.

Learning from Our Mistakes, Part 1 (TMF:1761)

Monday, January 10, 2022
Peace to Live By: Learning from Our Mistakes, Part 1 (TMF:1761) - Daniel Litton
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       Yes, God does do good things for unbelievers, as Jesus clearly taught us, but they cannot and should not expect God’s favor when they are clearly violating his Word, his standard for righteousness. So, what is God working good out of for us as Christians? Well, Paul tells us that God is working good out of “all things.” What is “all things”? Well, all things is just that, all things. Any and every circumstance you can think of. God brings good out of good situations, and he brings good out of bad situations. At times I believe God allows us to make mistakes because he desires to teach us something important. It is true that God can prevent us from making a mistake, and oftentimes he does. But sometimes he stands aside and allows us to make the mistake. I use to be really hard on myself in my life at the times I would make a blunder, a misstep. I would pretty much punish myself for bad choices. Maybe you can relate.