How true this is Shelly. Thank you for those truths to remind us everyday that God is working even when we don't see the fruit right away. We need to be patient and worship him during the waiting period.
July 10, 2012
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36
Do not conform to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-His good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive and to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5
Freedom comes when the vessel is washed and clean. When the Holy Spirit can be poured in and poured out simultaneously. Not having to be held up by blemishes as selfish desires and prideful intentions.
One thought let rampant in the mind of the most devout believer can lead them to be shipwrecked in the middle of the ocean of life. Suffering from hypothermia with nothing to cling to save the life jacket of salvation that will never be taken from them.
I believe that the life of the believer is not lived within the confines of the day. It is lived in the confines of the moment. The thoughts, the words, and the actions all conforming together to make up a life.
This is not hopeless thing friend. I write these words out of victory! This victory I am celebrating today. Nothing of my own doing, but Christ's working out his good, pleasing, and perfect will in me. That He is also working out in you this very moment!
In reading the book of Ezra, I see the hard labor these men poured out to restore the house of worship to their God. How much was given by all to rebuild. The cost was great. People around them continually tried to deter God's work from being done. therefor the people continued to succeed. We serve the same God today.
If you have given yourself completely over to God then he is working out His pleasing will in you. I am realizing that most of the pitfalls that I find myself miserably in, are part of the work that God is doing to to restore the temple of my life so that I will worship him in obedience, lacking in nothing that we need to please Him.
Just has he made a way in the time of Ezra for the people to have opportunity to worship and adore him, in spite of their waywardness and disobedience, through repentance and humility, He promises to restore that same foundation to us.
"Worship Free"
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How true this is Shelly. Thank you for those truths to remind us everyday that God is working even when we don't see the fruit right away. We need to be patient and worship him during the waiting period.
July 10, 2012