By Codie Brenner

I know my God. Let me introduce you to Him. My God is love. He is the God who provides. I have come home to bags of clothing, toys, supplies, and furnishings just waiting on my doorstep. I do not recall ever purchasing a piece of furniture in almost nine years of marriage.

He has moved families to Japan and North Carolina to fill my freezer and cupboards with food and household provisions. He has literally dropped cash over my backyard fence which lay in the dirt and survived days of rain for me to find it at just the right time.

I know my God. He is the God of all comfort, the God who sees. He has seen my pain and quieted my darkest fears. And though I know He walks beside me, I can honestly say that throughout my 27 years of knowing Him, more often than not, He has carried me. He has thwarted car accidents, paid for bills born out of sin, provided free dental work freeing my husband of pain, kept my family safe in the midst of perilous trials, carried me through a childhood filled with darkness and placed me in a marvelous place of light. He has spoken words into my life through friends and counselors that only He could have known. I am under His protective wings, and He sees every circumstance and binds up every wound. He placed this spiritual orphan in a fellowship of believers to be nurtured and to comfort others with the comfort I have been given from Him.

I know my God. He is my Redeemer, the God who restores. Romans 4:18-20 tells us that Abraham “contrary to hope, in hope believed.” Regardless of what he could see, what others told him, or even what was logically conceivable considering his circumstances, he did not waiver at the promises of God in unbelief. See, I know my God. And this was His word to me over a year ago and still is, and it is His word for you. He knows you. He loves you. He sees you.

Has the busyness of life or the crushing weight of circumstance kept you from truly resting in the Lord? God is neither deaf nor blind. He is acquainted with your sorrows and He has been tempted in all things, making Him able to relate to our human condition. The difference is He remains faithful when we, the world, and others fail. “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matt. 19:26

See, we know our God--Faithful and True are His names!

“[Abraham] contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations…he did not waiver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.” Romans 4:18-21

There is a “so that” for you and for me. We must not waiver at the promise of God. He has plans to work in us and through us if we will simply approach Him with the faith of a child.

I know my God. Do you know Him and trust Him? Would you like to know Him?

GOOD NEWS

Though we are all sinners and we keep messing up, God made a way for us to be reconciled to Him.
By grace we can come boldly to God to find forgiveness and new life through Jesus.
“Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe
(adhere to, trust in and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Romans 9:9 (AMP Version)

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