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Understanding God’s Common Grace
In this episode, we explore whether God cares for and helps those who don’t love or ac… (visit YouTube for more)
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Does God care for or help people who don’t love him or accept him? The prophet Isaiah, has something to say about this. So we are going to meditate today on Isaiah 45 verse 5. I am the Lord and there is no other. Besides me there is no God. I equip you though you do not know me.
God sets out his credentials. He is the ultimate being. He is God. He is Lord. He is our master. He is our King whether we recognise him or not. And there is no other God.
So that means if we are in any way equipped, if we are in any way gifted, if we receive anything in life, material or otherwise, friendships, relationships, time, all of those things come from God equipping us, even if we reject God.
This is common grace. All people are recipients of this common grace that God extends. He gives us breath in our lungs. He gives strength to our bodies. He enables us to make choices. He is the equipping God.
And so the hope is that all people will come to a realisation that he God, Almighty God, Yahweh, is the source of everything that they have. All good gifts come from God himself. He is the Lord. There is no other God.
And he will do what he will do. He will give gifts to people in accordance with his sovereign will.
Sometimes we just have to look on this and wonder, because God does things in ways we wouldn’t, but he knows best: he is God.
