Sorry, assignments and exams snuck up on me and jumped me in the park last night. So I'll be back on here (Friday afternoon) with several updates! One recapping my Victoria trip, with LOTS of photos. And then another talking about this past week, and all that's been happening there!
I've had some cool Jesus-revelations, so hopefully I can share those with all of you too! I love Jesus so much, this isn't something I'm saying to pretend like i'm a better person than anyone, or that i have my life set for me or anything. Life is a journey, and it happens to be one that we can't do alone. I'm saying this because it's true. I need Jesus. I want Jesus. Jesus, be my everything!!!!
The LORD has heard my cry for mercy;
the LORD accepts my prayer.
Psalm 6:9
He accepts it. He is pouring His mercy on you right now.
1 Peter 2:23-25 ---> When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
We see that Jesus knew who He was responsible to, Who had given Him this life, and who He would have to answer to at the end of it all. This didn't scare him!!! It gave him hope that springs eternal! Like i mentioned in my last post, "for the JOY set before Him he endured the cross". He knew what his purpose was. He came to "testify to the truth" (John 18:37) and as it says in John 3:17, "God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to SAVE THE WORLD THROUGH HIM.".
In Christ we have freedom from our old selves. They are dead, but Christ brings us NEW LIFE. He doesn't want us to sit and wonder about the old one, He's already provided a new way of living! Even if we aren't sure where to go, "He goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know His voice." He has prepared the way ahead of us, we just need to trust him, and then follow where he is taking us! Finally, this verse says that while we were going astray, we are back now. The shepherd has us, and is watching over us. He knows where we are right now in life, and he's asking us to realize that we are back, that He's got us, to trust Him, and to move forward! He hasn't called us to a standstill, but to a revolution!!!
"For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago." - Ephesians 2:10 (NLT)
Firstly, we are His MASTERPIECE. His pinnacle work, the one the artist is most proud of, and shows off to everyone. He made us new creatures!! We aren't the SAME once we experience God's love!!! It changes us! We won't live the same once we feel Him, not because we are trying to abide by some ancient law of morality, but because GOD CHANGES US. When we see Him we WANT to live differently. "He does not do not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it." - C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity).
God has a plan for every single one of our lives. Right there in Ephesians it says that since the beginning of time, God has had a plan for our lives, and appointments that he has set in place for each of us to keep. When i think about that I know that it's in his will (his plan) to even just sit and have coffee with someone for an hour, and listen to where they are at in life. To bring them encouragement! He might have had these coffee dates, or this random stranger encounter, planned since the beginning of time, knowing EXACTLY where we would be right at that moment, and knowing what we needed to hear right then. We serve such an Awesome God. Amen!
That was 100x more than the line "Updates coming soon!", that i was planning on writing. Haha, but when God moves, why not move with Him?
Shalom. May His peace be with you!
PS- (I Will Lift My Eyes)Here's a song i heard for the first time the other day, and I just felt the lyrics spoke to me. Maybe God will use them to speak to you too :)
God, my God, I cry out
Your beloved needs You now
God, be near, calm my fear
And take my doubt
Your kindness is what pulls me up
Your love is all that draws me in
I will lift my eyes to the Maker
Of the mountains I can’t climb
I will lift my eyes to the Calmer
Of the oceans raging wild
I will lift my eyes to the Healer
Of the hurt I hold inside
I will lift my eyes, lift my eyes to You
God, my God, let Mercy sing
Her melody over me
God, right here all I bring
Is all of me
‘Cause You are and You were and You will be forever
The Lover I need to save me
‘Cause You fashioned the earth and You hold it together, God
So hold me now
I will lift my eyes to the Maker
Of the mountains I can’t climb
I will lift my eyes to the Calmer
Of the oceans raging wild
I will lift my eyes to the Healer
Of the hurt I hold inside
I will lift my eyes, lift my eyes to You
God, my God, I cry out
Your beloved needs You now
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