day 196

Son-sun Set

 

 

"Don't let the sun set on your heavy heart

Forgiveness can find you wherever you are

Let go of your pride and step you from the dark

Don't let the sun set on your heavy heart." -Sidewalk Prophets

 

       When you can't sleep, there's something weighing you dowm. Maybe you physically feel some extra weight tugging at you. When I was little, my dad would always want to change my bed sheets after I took a bath, so I wouldn't have to sleep on dirty sheets right after getting clean. I never liked the idea because it took too long in my mind to put together a clean resting place. Though I never admitted to it, I did find it a very nice feeling to be tucked inside a clan bed. God is our resting place and we should want to get rid of the dirt we bring; we should want to have clean sheets. Don't be afraid to admit it. There's nothing to be ashamed of. Repenting holds growth and wisdom and maturity--not shame. Don't let the sun set on your heavy heart. Allow yourself to sleep. Stop holding yourself back. Don't let the Son set on your heavy heart.

 

 



Day 195

"Send Your rain, Oh Lord
Send Your rain, Oh Lord
Send Your rain to Your people

Send Your rain, Oh Lord
Send Your rain, Oh Lord
Send Your rain
Bring Your kingdom"

How many of you know that God's rain is the best kind of rain and that His rain brings His kingdom, that it brings eternal life?God's rain is righteous; it strengthens and builds us. If our Father brings us TO a situation, he will being us THROUGH it. Our God is faithful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. If something so great, so far beyond our imagination, can come from Him, why slow down the process? There's no shame in telling God your struggles and sins. Besides, He knows.

Day 194

Matthew 24:36, 38, 39, 42, 44
“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

Day 193

Romans 7:15,17-25
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

Sin is by no means being excused here. Rather, the power and great recognition of it is being spoken. I'd much rather be a slave to God than to the devil. Besides, we are no longer called slaves or servants but called friends. For a servant does not know his master's business, however, God has made Himself known to us. Grace and peace to you from our Everlasting Father Nd Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Day 192

It's been a while. Sorry about that.

Romans 11:30-32 Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God's mercy to you. For God had bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.

God knew the fall would come and that His own people would turn away from Him. But God still let it happen so He could pour out His love and mercy and grace to us--His children, His creations.
Prayer requests?

day 191

When I Say I Am A Christian by Carol Wimmer

When I say, “I am a Christian”
I’m not shouting, “I’ve been saved!”
I’m whispering, “I get lost!
That’s why I chose this way”

 

When I say, “I am a Christian”
I don’t speak with human pride
I’m confessing that I stumble -
needing God to be my guide

 

When I say, “I am a Christian”
I’m not trying to be strong
I’m professing that I’m weak
and pray for strength to carry on

 

When I say, “I am a Christian”
I’m not bragging of success
I’m admitting that I’ve failed
and cannot ever pay the debt

 

When I say, “I am a Christian”
I don’t think I know it all
I submit to my confusion
asking humbly to be taught

 

When I say, “I am a Christian”
I’m not claiming to be perfect
My flaws are far too visible
but God believes I’m worth it

 

When I say, “I am a Christian”
I still feel the sting of pain
I have my share of heartache
which is why I seek God’s name

 

When I say, “I am a Christian”
I do not wish to judge
I have no authority
I only know I’m loved

Day 190

Psalm 119:18 Open my eyes that I may see  wonderful things in your law.
Romans 13:10 Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

The first and greatest commandment from Jesus is to love God with all your heart, soul and mind. The second is to love your neighbor as yourself. God IS love. There are countless wonders in God's abundant love--countless! We've all seen or heard the verse in 1 Corinthians that says what love is. True love is an amazing thing. Yet God's love is so far beyond that! You want to know how to be like God--how to follow in Jesus' footsteps? Love.
Any prayer requests?