Friday, October 12, 2012

Knowing God - He Establishes and Settles


1 Peter 5:10
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Establishing and Settling

Our God wants to establish and settle us.  The word ‘stablish’ here in the KJV is also translated ‘establish’.  It means “to set fast, to turn resolutely in a certain direction”.  The Lord will use suffering in our lives to adjust our direction or position us more firmly in the direction He has for us. The word; ‘settle’ in this text means, ‘to lay a foundation’.  Our God, of ALL grace, wants our lives to be grounded and strong in its very essence and basis.  When we bring the sufferings we face to our God, He will take those seasons and use them to give us a strong, solid foundation and a resolute direction causing our lives to be purposeful and positioned.  God is able to do this.  He establishes us and settle us.  The sufferings we go through often bring about temporal disorientation and we can find ourselves lacking clear direction.  Sufferings often shake the very foundation of all we have been building on.  This is good.  The end result, AFTER we have suffered awhile will be clear direction and a firm foundation.  Our God is able to do this.

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