free

Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in His sight, without blemish and free from accusation.

- Colossians 1:21-22

 

Mid-May finds many of us celebrating graduations.

Graduations from pre-K, kindergarten, grade school, junior high, high school, college, even specialized schools such as nursing, veterinarian, law, all kinds of graduations.

Graduation signifies a special sort of freedom – we are now established in our knowledge of what ever we are graduating from and are ready to move on.

We have another graduation to freedom when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior.  

We become established in the knowledge that we are free from sin, because He died for us on the cross.

But guess what?

Just like when we receive that diploma that shows we have completed our course, it does not end there.

Now it is time to go out into the world, get a job in our field of choice and make a living.

When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we are free from sin, but we have to go out into the world and make our living in this freedom, we can’t go back to dong the same thing we did before, we have to live like we deserve His grace, even though we really don’t deserve it.

We are holy in His sight – let’s start acting like it.

 

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how great

Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!

- Psalm 8:1

 

Some days I just can’t.

There are days when this whole world just feels like it is coming down around me, that I just can’t take another step.

I have so many resources available to my, pastors, friends, family, people I can turn to when I just can’t pick myself up anymore.

My first go to though is the Bible, I will always find encouragement there, that usually leads me to song.

Here is another favorite:

Oh Lord, my God

When I, in awesome wonder

Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made

I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder

Thy power throughout the universe displayed

Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee

How great Thou art, how great Thou art

Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee

How great Thou art, how great Thou art

And when I think that God, His Son not sparing

Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in

That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing

He bled and died to take away my sin

Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee

How great Thou art, how great Thou art

Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee

How great Thou art, how great Thou art

When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation

And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart

Then I shall bow, in humble adoration

And then proclaim, my God, how great Thou art

Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee

How great Thou art, how great Thou art

Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee

How great Thou art, how great Thou art

How great Thou art, how great Thou art

I may sing that with tears streaming down my face, but I know how amazing my God is.

Don’t let the world bring you down, reach out to someone, anyone, a friend or a stranger (lots of hotlines out there).

Never ever give up.

Jesus died for you, do you think for a moment He won’t hold you when you are hurting?

 

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my deliverer

And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the Lord has said, even among the survivors whom the Lord calls.

- Joel 2:32

 

It’s been a little while since I have had a song reference, and I thought this verse warranted an oldie but goodie:

Joseph took his wife and her child

And they went to Africa

To escape the rage of a deadly King

There along the banks of the Nile

Jesus listened to the song

That the captive children used to sing

They were singin'

My deliverer is comin', my deliverer is standin' by

My deliverer is comin', my deliverer is standin' by

Through a dry and thirsty land

Water from the Kenyon heights

Pours itself out of lake Sangra's broken heart

There in the Sahara winds

Jesus heard the whole world cry

For the healin' that would flow from His own scars

The world was singin'

My deliverer is comin', my deliverer is standin' by

My deliverer is comin', my deliverer is standin' by

He will never break His promise

He has written it upon the sky

My deliverer is comin', my deliverer is standin' by

My deliverer is comin', my deliverer is standin' by

My deliverer is comin', my deliverer is standin' by

I will never doubt His promise

Though I doubt my heart, I doubt my eyes

My deliverer is comin', my deliverer is standin' by

My deliverer is comin', my deliverer is standin' by

My deliverer is comin', my deliverer is standin' by

He will never break his promise

Though the stars should break faith with the sky

My deliverer is comin', my deliverer is standin' by

We often find ourselves in situations that are so devastating, so horrible that all we can do is drop to our knees and pray for relief.

Our deliverer, Christ Jesus is coming, He is coming because He said He would be back, He doesn’t break promises.

We may not see it when we are trying to dig our way out of our holes, but we are not alone, He is there.

He is coming back.

Our deliverer is coming.   

 

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Mother’s Day

Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.

- Titus 2:3-5

 

Yesterday was Mother’s Day as celebrated in the U.S.

To those of you who are moms (pets count!), I hope you had a wonderful day.

To those of you who have moms, I hope you took a moment to tell her how much you appreciate her.

Some of us are blessed to have multiple mother figures in our lives, biological, adopted, mothers-in-law, moms of our friends who treated us like we were their own, moms at work, school and church. 

Most moms have the same goal; to teach, love, nurture, advise, prepare and develop us as humans so we can be better people.  

Fur mommas also have similar goals to teach, love, nurture and develop our fur children to be respectable creatures.

If you are reading this, thank a momma, you would not be here if it were not for the moms in your life.

Thank you to the Moms in my life, you know who you are.

 

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end times

and then teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you; and be sure of this—that I am with you always, even to the end of the world.

- Matthew 28:20 (TLB)

 

Pretty much everyone is talking about the end times right now.

People are picking and choosing different sections in the book of Revelation, determined that the end of the world is upon us.

Are you worried?

If you are living the way the Bible says, if you are loving God and sharing His word with others, following His word and living by it, well He says right in the Bible that He will be with us always.  

God gave us His Son to give us this confidence, we have confidence in His love.

God will never stop fighting for us, until the day we are home in His arms.

Is the world ending?

Are the end times upon us?

I don’t know, but I do know that my home is not here, it is with God.

 

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hi Dad!

The righteous man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him.

- Proverbs 20:7 (NKJV)

 

Another quote from the world is “any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad”.

I am so blessed to have someone that special in my life.

He wasn’t there for my birth, he didn’t raise me from infant to adult, but rather came into my life when I was already an adult.

I was adopted, my biological father was not part of my life, and my adopted father passed away when I was 15 years old.

My father-in-law didn’t really have a choice about being my father-in-law when his son married me, but he did have a choice to be my dad.

And he is an amazing dad. 

He gives advice, he listens, he teaches, he prays, he helps others, he lives with integrity and he loves God and his family.

He is a righteous man, and his children are blessed.

Happy birthday, Dad, I love you.  

 

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who do you know?

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better.

- Ephesians 1:17

 

There is an old saying along the lines of “it’s not who you know, it’s what you know”, I have heard it phrased several different ways.

I guess my thought on this is really who DO you know? 

Do you know God as your Father, as your Savior, as your friend?

Do you know that God can give you wisdom and power, knowledge and peace?

Do you know that you are stronger just by acknowledging that He is God and you are not?

I encourage you to pick up your Bible and get to know Him better, you may be surprised at the things you learn.

 

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