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Keeping Includes All

10/17/2021

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Last week we discussed how we are kept by the power of God. This  keeping is also all-inclusive! It is important that we fully comprehend that it  is us, it is you, it is me that is kept. And we are not kept somewhat or  mostly, we are kept fully and completely! It is very easy for us to get lazy and despondent in our walk with Jesus, where we see Him as a force that  takes care of our general well being, but is not concerned with the little  things going on in our life that seem unimportant. Our God wants to be a  personal friend that discusses and goes through everything with us.  Nothing in our life is unimportant to Him! It is so important that He sends  the Holy Spirit to be with us every moment of every day to keep us  connected to Him. 
Suppose I borrowed your car! When you loaned it to me, it was in great  condition. You asked me to take good care of her. But, in my driving  around Juneau I side-swiped a guard rail and cracked the windshield on  top of trashing the tires and interior. By the time I got her back to you, she  was in pretty bad shape! 
Friend; you would say: "When I loaned you my car I asked you to take  good care of her for me." 
"What are you talking about?" I say! "Didn't I keep her for you? Here she  is!" 
You say, "But I didn't want you to just keep her in a general way, and you  brought it back totally trashed. I expected you to personally take care of  every part of it." 
Friends, our God does not want to keep us in a general way where we just  go our own way and then come back to Him trashed and broken. Where 
He has to totally rebuild us to somehow get us into Heaven. That is the  way it goes for many of us, and I praise Him that He doesn't just scrap us  when we come back to Him trashed and beat up. Our loving God wants to  live with us on every part of the trip, and keep us personally, on our walk  with Jesus. 
Another mis-conception is that God will keep us in spiritual things, but He  cannot concern Himself with the temporal things in our life. If that were  true we would be in big trouble! He knows that there is no way for us to  keep ourselves in the spiritual or temporal parts of our life. But God says; 
"My child, there is no work you are to do, and no business in which you  are to engage, and not a cent which you are to spend, but I, your Father,  will take that up into my keeping." Absolute Surrender p. 98 
I am so thankful that the keeping of God includes everything! 
We are also tempted to think that when we are going through a trial God  keeps us, but in times of prosperity we don't need His keeping so much!  Then others of us struggle with the opposite temptation, where we think in  times of prosperity and ease we can hang on to God, but when the trials  come as they always do, then our rebellious spirit wants to blame it on  God and we get mad at a God who was willing to die for us. 
I love this statement on page 99 of Absolute Surrender, 
"Now, I bring you the message that in prosperity as in adversity, in the  sunshine as in the dark, your God is ready to keep you all the time." 
Aren't you thankful that we serve such a God?

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    Pastor Brad Traxler is the pastor of the Wrangell SDA Church. Brad Traxler is the husband of forty years to Cheryl, father to Kimberly and Ryan, and grandfather to Brad, Kevin, William, Eamon, Zairhen, Seraphina, and Zeelyah. He holds a BA in Theology and has been pastoring churches for twenty years. The greatest passion of His life has been to share Jesus. 

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