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Titus 3:4
4 But [de] after [hote] that the kindness [chrestotes] and [kai] love [philanthropia] of God [theos] our [hemon] Saviour [soter] toward man [philanthropia] appeared [epiphaino], KJV-Interlinear
4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, NASB
God is the ultimate philanthropist. He possesses unlimited resources and His generosity is without limits.
In eternity past, God created humanity within His mind, the perfect person. One with whom He would share and spend all of eternity.
During the course of time, man fell into sin. God did not lose His infinite love for man (John 3:16), but instead had a plan already in the works for saving man from his own destruction.
The plan of God allows us to peer ever so slightly, inside the mind of God, and see the immense feelings that He has for each one of us individually.
In eternity past, God created you, within His plan. In time, in history, God brought you into existence. He did not create you to be worthless, demented, deformed, handicapped, or limited in any way, but God created you now, so that you could be transformed into the perfection of His original intent.
Throughout this study we have touched on the concepts of reservoirs, shadows verses reality and so forth. And by now you should understand that this world that exists all around us, is merely a shadow and a hint of the reality that none of us has ever seen.
A shadow has no scent, no texture, no color, no dimension, no content. A shadow is merely an outline, and a rough one at that, of something else that really exists. And if this world, with all of the scents, colors, textures, sounds and such that we can detect, is as phenomenal as it is, then how much greater is reality, which we have not seen, over that which we currently have?
Eternity is said to be beyond our imagination. Most folks think of eternity as little more than an extension of what we already have, just less trouble. Not so. Eternity is beyond our ability to imagine, and that means extreme changes in virtually everything. It is for this eternal existence that God designed us, and created us.
Imagining a plan is one thing, implementing that plan is quite another, and maintaining that plan, given all of the opposition that has occurred in history, both from Satan and arrogant man, is still quite another.
And yet through it all, God has not given up on humanity, and certainly God has not given up on you.
So long as the breath of life is functioning within you, God has a plan for you that is accomplishable. And so long as you get your act together and pursue with a genuine interest, your spiritual life, then there is no one, and nothing in existence, that can prevent God from carrying you to the maximum potential of your life, and beyond.
God accomplishes His work without human weapons, He works without regard to human means. The battle is the Lords.
