We all at one time lived in darkness… in sin and misery, not knowing the way out. But then there appeared a light…a shining illumination that dispelled the blackness from our minds and our souls and filled us with all goodness and righteousness from Him. Jesus Himself said,”…I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” You are a child of the Light…walk in that shining spiritual enlightenment today.
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Psalm 30:5 ” For His anger lasts only a moment, but His favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.”
Our frail human bodies are not able to endure more than just an instant of God’s wrath…though it may feel like an eternity when we’re in the middle of His fray, it is but a moment. His anger may dissolve us for a night…but will not be held against us as a grudge in the morning. His anger will momentarily suspend our life as we know it… but only to turn and shower us with His tremendous grace and mercy at dawnbreak. The Lord God is good…His love endures forever.
Acts 3:6 ” Then Peter said, ‘Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.’ “
The beggar at the Temple gate did not realize he had a divine appointment with the Disciples Peter and John as they headed to prayer that day. Crippled from birth, he had to be carried each day to the spot near the gate where he’d sit, begging for a few coins. So imagine his surprise, when Peter exclaimed,…”Friend, I don’t have any money, but what I do have is far beyond anything you could ever envision. What I have to give you is a new body…So by the power and authority of our Redeemer, Jesus,…Stand up and walk!” That beggar’s life was forever changed by the name of Jesus.
Matthew 11: 28 ” Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
This world is very adept at weighing us down with cares, guilt, and shame. We will never be pretty even, rich enough, or skinny enough by it’s standards…so we wonder why we feel so bad! Jesus said to Come to Him with all our cares, and concerns…Come to Him with all our failures and broken promises…For He will take them all, and in the process will allow us to see ourselves through His loving eyes, and His standards…His eternal standards.
Psalm 90:4 ” For a thousand years in Your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.”
We constantly get upset with God when our timetable and His don’t match…when He doesn’t do things in the time frame we think they need to be happening. That’s when we should realize that God’s timing and ours are no way alike. The Lord is not concerned by time…His concern is imperatively with the final outcome…not by how long it takes to get there. Not surprisingly then, if you look up the Hebrew words for thousand and day, they can both mean the same… an indefinite period of time. The Lord’s timing may not be always to our liking…but it’s always perfect.
Job 5:18 ” For He wounds, but He also binds up; He injures, but His hands also heal. “
The hands of Jesus…boldly touching the leper…patting the little child…tenderly holding the sick. The hands of our Savior…mixing dirt and His spit to wipe on a blind man’s eyes…breaking up bread and fish to feed the crowds…taking the hand of a dead girl and commanding her back to life. His hands quickly catching Peter as he’s sinking in the water from fear. The hands of Jesus are a testament to His life and His Walk on the Earth…they bear witness to all He was and did. But it’s those exquisitely hideous nail-scared hands of our Lord that bear the real and vivid testament to us all today…those gapping, wounded hands showing graphically just how far He would go to save us from our sins.
Job 28:28 “…the fear of the Lord – that is wisdom, and shun evil is understanding.”
To stand in awe of the sovereignty of God and all He is…to revere His power and authority…to understand totally where you would be without Him…that is the start of true wisdom. Wisdom is not a gift given to you, it must be obtained by walking out your life…day by day…situation by situation…trial by trial. And through this learning experience, we start to discern what is good for us, and what is bad. We learn to turn away from what is wicked and in the process gain invaluable insight into who our Savior really is.
Mark 9: 23-24 ” Jesus said, ‘Everything is possible for him who believes.’ Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, ‘ I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!’ “
We all want to be that Super-Saint who stands firm in their trust and faith in the Lord…but there are times when even the mightiest of us have our confidence shaken. In this story, a father has brought his sick son to the Disciples to be healed, but they were unable, so now Jesus is assuring him that the boy can be made well. The father in his fear and frustration says…I want to trust you Jesus, but I’m lacking in confidence to wholly trust Your power and authority over this…please help me! Jesus did not berate or belittle the father for his honesty, but rather He reached out and healed the boy, and in the process enabled the father to defeat and triumph over his unbelief.
Revelation 22:17 ” The Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let him who hears say, Come! Whoever is thristy, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.”
Whoever…a simple pronoun, but in this verse it makes such a tremendous impact. Whoever, is every person, no matter who they are, or where they’ve come from, that may receive this free gift of eternal life. Our Lord is continually wooing and calling those who are willing to receive this living water…He makes no distinction…He holds no prejudice….Whoever is just that to Him, whoever. Maybe you’ve been praying for a “whoever”, wondering if they’ll ever give their heart to the Lord…know that the Lord is saying to them, Come! … And that He’ll never give up.
II Corinthians 4:18 ” So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
We are not to focus upon the temporal things of this world, but rather on the lasting Kingdom of God. This faith we have in the eternal, is built up daily as our walk with the Lord becomes stronger and stronger. As we trust the Lord more, we will cast only a fleeting glance at the world and its temporary pleasures, knowing with certainty where our everlasting home is.
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