God Is Not a "Gotcha!" God

God Is Not a "Gotcha!" God
 
“Commit your work to the Lord, and then your plans will
succeed.”  Proverbs 16:3 (NLT)

God is for your success in life; he created you  for a purpose and he
wants you to succeed. It is God, your Creator, who will  measure your
success in life, and no one else.

Knowing God is for you will change your whole  perspective on life.
You’ll stop thinking of God as someone looking down from  Heaven, ready to
yell “Gotcha!” anytime you mess up.

This is extremely  good news!

It means you don’t  need to be afraid of God, because God is for you.
Yet some people are so afraid  of God that they get nervous just talking
about him. Do you know why? They feel  guilty, and then they start
thinking, “If I get close to God, he’s going to  lecture me. He’s going to
remind me of all the things I’ve done wrong, and then  I’ll feel even
worse!”

Nothing could be  further from the truth of God. Jesus said, “I did not
come into the world to  condemn it, but to save it”. In effect, Jesus is
saying, “I didn’t come to  scold you; I came to save you.”

If God is for us,  who can be against us?