"Our Persuasion" -2

"He fashioned their hearts alike; He considereth all their works." (Psalms 33:15) Just in case you were wondering how far back God's mercy goes, it plainly says in those few verses of Romans, a book as complex as we are, that God has known all along, what we are, what we capable of, and how it was that He was going to make us right; we just need to get on board with His plan, know that He loves us more than we can ever realize, and we need to love Him back! People that do not think that God loves them any more, for what ever reason that might be, are the ones that give up; they just quit caring, or trying, and sometimes, they will actually try to quit living. The whole point of this title, "Our Persuasion", is that fact that God has fashioned our hearts to receive His love; we are not capable of generating the kind of love that God gives out, but we are capable of receiving it; thereby, once we have received it into our hearts, we are then able to express that same love in our selves, because we then know His love. English walnuts can grow in California, they just require a little grafting to the black walnut stump, and then you have healthy English walnuts that can survive and produce great tasting walnuts in an area that they are not meant to grow. That might sound like a weird assimilation with how God's love works in us, but the basic principle is the same; and if we are not rooted in the love of God, then we are not capable of loving God or each other; at least not the way God has intended us to love. I do not care how hard a person might appear to be on the outside, God can change a man's heart; once that happens, what becomes of someone that was once hard to the core, is now some one that loves to the core, and they become someone hard to persuade otherwise! You have no doubt heard the term, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"; well this might be true in the physical world, but in the spiritual world, it's more like, "The harder they fall, the bigger they become!" That is how God changes things! Two things that must be considered when reading the second part of this verse above, the first of which is the word "considereth", because it tends to mean understands, as in, God understands us; however, the second thing can blow your mind, because the meaning of "all their works", with "works" combined to the "all their", it takes into consideration from the start to the finish, taking also into consideration the "First Adam and the Second Adam", the Second Adam being Jesus Christ; thereby making "all their works" to ultimately mean, "WORK OF JEHOVAH"... "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 8:31-39)