Today was the first time that I was encouraged by God's word in a long time, because it was so personal and so comforting.
Ezekiel 36:25-27
Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
A prophecy by Ezekiel, who spreads the message that God will repair the damage done in us. When we will no longer suffer from Adam and Eve's mistakes, but be reconciled with God through Jesus Christ. His Spirit will dwell in us and we will be refreshed, keeping to His commandments and obeying His will.
I was encouraged simply because I've felt so dry for a while. The works have become greater than my faith and I have high expectations of everything and everyone. My perspective became skewed and I was struggling to keep myself together. But God reminded me today that He gave me His spirit, so that I don't have to struggle alone. When I need advice or need console, I can look to Yahweh, my maker, creater and lover.
But I have to stay in His presence, so that His promises would come to me. I have to seek His Kingdom, before I can receive the benefits. It doesn't always just fall into my lap, as if deserved. Rather, it is God's grace that we can be in His presence and in His Kingdom.
But then again, God's grace rocks my world...
Labels: Bible, encouragement, God, grace
I was reading a book on the way home after a long day. It's called "What's So Amazing About Grace?" by Philip Yancey.
I felt God was speaking to me through Yancey's words.
I won't give you back your mum.
But what I can give you, is comfort.
What I will give you, is pardon, without hesitance.
I will give you humility, rising you above your pain.
I will host a banquet, in your name when you come back to me.
I will not need you to spend your life working your debt off for me.
I will give you several attempts, not just a one off shot at life.
Grace means I cannot love you any more than I do.
Grace means that racism, pornography, murder, masochism, addiction, depression, escapism or adultery will not make me love you any less.
I will spend all my riches on you and want nothing back. I will spend my money as I will; I invest everything in you.
Because I love you. You shall be known as "the one Jesus loves."
The fact that God loves me always...and constantly has his arms open, no matter where I am on the road, lying and awaiting death on the side, keeled over and panting for air, or running towards Him with arms wide open...the knowledge makes my shoulders ease up, better than any supple pair of hands, with the ingrained knowledge of massaging.
I feel like standing up again.
V
Labels: grace
Sunday, September 20, 2009
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