The "AND YET"S"

For your sake we face death throughout the day;
We are thought of as slaughterhouse sheep.

And yet - and yet - we come out on top every time through him who set his heart on us. For I am absolutely convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers nor the present nor the future nor force nor mountain nor valley nor anything else in the universe shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:36-39 ("Cotton Patch" version)


....."And yet, AND YET............." I love the "and yet's" of the bible. Anytime you read an "and Yet" in the word of God, is means, the odds were against someone, the sky looked dark, the worst thing in the world was about to happen, "AND YET" God showed up. Look at the attitude AFTER the "And Yet" in the above passage. Things looked bad, God Himself, they thought had turned his eye off of them, AND YET they started thinking about all the AND YET"S God had performed before. What follows the AND YET is amazing. When you hear the AND YET, listen carefully, there is fixing to be a miracle told. IT was IMPOSSIBLE, AND YET, GOD did it. OH I love the God of the " AND YET"S".

You and I were set deep in our sin, going no where but to hell, AND YET, God sent His Son, Jesus Christ to take our place and die on that cross, so that WE could live. God had had it with His creation, mankind had done their own thing for far to long, He was ready to destroy the whole word with a flood, AND YET He made a way of escape for Noah and his family and the animals of the world. We as human being disobey God and His principles daily if not secondly, (is that a word?) AND YET, God has patience, love, oh such love, and such care for us. "AND YET< AND YET> AND YET>" God loves us. If your not standing up right now, praising the God of "AND YETS' I will pray for you:) I have had so many And yet's in my life, I have turned my back on Him over and over and over, AND YET He still loves me, still wants me in His family, still takes care of me, still uses me, still wants me to love Him. Our God is a God of the "AND YET"S" .

Any yet, we still disobey Him, we still don't love Him, we still don't do His will, the "And Yet"s" are coming to a close. Yes, God loves us, He will not send us to hell, we will do that ourselves. We are the ones that make the choices to serve Him or Satan, and by not serving Him, you are, by default, serving Satan. God sends no one to hell, He get's a bad rap for that, people use the cop out all the time: "Why would a loving God send anyone to hell?" And yet, they believe that just by being "good" we will all go to a "Heaven" where a "GOD" as we see him or her, will rule forever and ever. Cop out, AND YET< God still loves you.



I cannot get away from the phrase: "AND YET" It shows me the true personality of God. When we, if treated like we as humans treat God, would end all life as we know it, including insects, God says: "And Yet, I will bless them, and give them more time to come to me. Man has over and over rejected God, " And Yet" God has not destroyed us, and He won't have to, we will destroy ourselves in our sinful nature. He is patient He cares so much for YOU. He is Love. He cares, He will give you every chance. And Yet, And Yet, And Yet. God loves us, and yet, we still sin. God sees our sin, and yet, He still loves us. God knows our weakness', and yet, He helps us, why? Because He loves us.



Numbers 11:21

New Living Translation (NLT)

21 But Moses responded to the LORD, “There are 600,000 foot soldiers here with me, and yet you say, ‘I will give them meat for a whole month!’ (And God DID supply)



Deuteronomy 5:24
They said, ‘Look, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice from the heart of the fire. Today we have seen that God can speak to us humans, and yet we live!
( God, the maker of the world, will commune with us, and we will not die)

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Isaiah 64:7-9

New Living Translation (NLT)

7 Yet no one calls on your name
or pleads with you for mercy.
Therefore, you have turned away from us
and turned us over[a] to our sins.

8 And yet, O LORD, you are our Father.
We are the clay, and you are the potter.
We all are formed by your hand.
9 Don’t be so angry with us, LORD.
Please don’t remember our sins forever.
Look at us, we pray,
and see that we are all your people.




There are many more "And Yet's" in the bible, God will never stop saying them, actually it is us who say them, in amazement, He knows what He is going to do before we fail. I was born into sin, I have sinned many more times then I can recall in my life, AND YET, God has made a home for me to live for ever with HIM< the ruler of it all. That is the biggest AND YET< YET>.







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