OCTOBER 15
MATTHEW 7:11_If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children…
God loves everyone—the entire world. So much, He let His Son suffer and die for the world.
God wants righteousness and goodness to reign supreme as it did for a brief time in the Garden of Eden. Pure perfection not only in people, but in all nature. But there was an almost in that perfection. When the almost won the battle over free will, everything changed—but God didn’t. He’s still just. He still has all power. He’s still God of the Impossible.
I believe Jesus in His infinite power and unsurpassed love works every day to restore as much of the Garden experience as possible in our fallen world. Every time He transforms a heart and gives it the ability to become salt and light, He’s made some restoration. It will take a new heaven and a new earth to bring full restoration.
When God uses evil people in ways that result in good for His children, He is exercising His fatherly powers. God wants fathers to do good to and for their children. Unfortunately, there are those whose fathers genuinely neglect, abuse, and abandon them.
God has a plan for those children as well, Psalm 27:10 (KJV), “When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.”
PRAYER
Jesus Lord, Only You can transform—we all need it. In the powerful name of Jesus, Amen.
Christ’s love is perfection—I want to love like that!
The Works of Her Hands 
You should see how mothers treat their children.
I was a care giver for over ten years with no pay because she gave the money to drunk other kids
She caused me to have five nervous breakdowns and threw me out because she was having a temper tantrum
Unfortunately this is common. Most care givers are men and most of the abusers are women
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I’m sorry for all the pain and abuse your have suffered. I trust God has taken the pain and used it for good as you are a faithful servant of His. Surely, it has also made you more sensitive to hurting people. Only God can cause good to come from bad.
The Bible verse referenced was on fathers which is why the devotional was as well. I fully agree there are many evil women in the world.
May God help us!
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