[--Friends,-- I find it amazing that few people want to read this post, "Guilt Beneath the Surface.' Why is that? Because people don't want to admit they are sinners. We all are sinners saved only by Jesus's grace. If we don't get that, then we miss the reason He died on the Cross. He died to forgive each one of us.
Even the Israelites did not (and most still do not), face up to being sinners in need of our Lord Jesus as Savior. We must understand this scripture= "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." [Romans 3:23] ~ Yes, we are justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith.
This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; for by demonstration I say of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. IT"S ALL SUMMED UP IN FAITH. We must keep short accounts. When we sin, (and we all do), we confess our sins and ask for His forgiveness. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleans us from all unrighteousness.
"If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us."" --(1 John 1:9-10) ]--


---TIMES AND SEASONS ~~

--“And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.”
-----(Acts 1:7) --

~~~Just before Christ ascended into heaven, His disciples asked Him, “Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” (v. 6). Christ refrained from answering their question as they had hoped, but in His wisdom He used the occasion to teach them that some information is for God alone, including the “times and the seasons.” In our finiteness, we are unable to handle too much information, and should we know even a small part of the “knowledge [which] is too wonderful for me” (Psalm 139:6), we would use it improperly.

Isaiah taught the same lesson many years before: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9). God has graciously revealed enough that we know He has a wonderful plan, but the details are known by Him alone. They are under His “own power,” or authority. Certainly He knows the future, but more than that, He controls it.

And why not? He created time (Genesis 1:1); surely He can exercise authority over it. Surely the “Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last” (Revelation 22:13) can control the destinies of individuals and nations. “Power” to work out His good pleasure rests solely with “the only wise God our Saviour . . . now and ever” (Jude 1:25).

Even though this “power” is His alone, His promise to the disciples that “ye shall receive power [a different word than that in verse 7, here meaning strength]” (Acts 1:8) has been fulfilled in the person of the Holy Spirit. We have what we need to be “witnesses” of that which we know of Him to “the uttermost part of the earth.”

--ICR/JDM --"Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise"/ Steve Green [You may need to click on the little round wheel, to get lyrics to this beautiful song.]<https://youtu.be/j0_vB1dFtC4>
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