in Christ Alone

I am sure a lot of people have heard the phrase "Jesus saves". I am sure even as a child I heard that. Now as an adult I know more of what that means. That God redeems a people deserving of condemnation and it turn takes that condemnation upon himself. That He lived that life that we could not. Yet God saves to the uttermost. He will not allow you to remain in sin. 

Ezekiel 36:26-27 ESV

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

I am throughly dismayed at how easy believism has taken over the church and it needs to be admonished and rebuked. Jesus has set us free from sin so why would we go back to be enslaved by the very sin that placed Christ on the cross. I'm going to try by the grace of God to say the truth in love but to say the truth regardless. I don't want people to perish believing that they're okay. 

Praying that God allows for more opportunities.

Thoughts January 30, 2021

I have found myself time and time again seeking to encourage brothers and sisters in the faith all around the world to seek the Lord while there is time. I don't want to be deceived into thinking that I'm okay if I haven't fully surrendered to the Lord. I also don't want to be one of those who presume in God's grace upon me and yet not even having a desire to love him as I should. So I'm here at home very very tired and weary and I don't know where the Lord will lead me but I know that time is not guaranteed to us. God I want to seek you into worship you and spirit and the truth. To not find my self-worth in what other people think of me but in what you have done for me. God please magnify your name in my life and please help me to kill this in within me make me holy as time goes on and allow me to just be with you in the name of your son Jesus I pray, Amén.

Goodbye

It is the Fourth day of the year 2021 and I realize that I have let some things affect me in ways I said I would never let a person do. Last year I sought to love sacrificially in a relationship, to love as Christ would have me do. I had found that those who know the Lord would know to love like that. I have to let go of any feelings of being wronged, of seeking my own desires because they do not profit. If a man was to reflect God in how they love someone, it would be to love them in spite of their sin but constantly pointing them to the cross. To cherish them and count them as higher than self, to serve well. To lead a person closer to Christ rather than further away. Anyway as I say goodbye to the old year I will not forget, I will forgive and let go of any bitterness and anger. I will be thankful that God brought about His purposes and not my own. 

I do still have a desire to get married. I do want to run the Christian race with someone, I do want kids. Yet it's God's will that will prevail. So God Your will be done in my life.