He loves me! I was made to be loved. I was forgiven and made to be loved not rejected. Because as I receive (truly RECEIVE) that forgiveness and love, I am compelled to extend it to all of those as unworthy as I was to receive it.
Sweet Savior!
Thank you for loving me so perfectly!
I love you, too!
J
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
The Promise of His Presence
Not sure why but I just feel compelled to share what blessed me from Monday's lesson from a workbook I am going through called Untangling Relationships.
Psalm 139:7,8,11,12
7 I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! 8 If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there.
11 I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night— 12 but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you.
Hebrews 4:15,16
15 This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. 16 So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.
The exercise was to think back over the past two days and describe a moment of joy and a moment of sadness.
I had just spent the weekend with my sweet little fella, my 3 month old grandson, Braden. I had SOOOOO enjoyed him... literally just soaked him up... there was barely a moment all weekend that he wasn't in my arms... we talked together (or "cooed" together) :) and sang together and had the funnest, sweetest moment where we took turns making each other laugh. It was the cutest thing. His little laugh made me laugh which made him laugh bigger which made me laugh bigger and so on and so on! It was pure J-O-Y Joy!!!! Oh, and then to just watch him drift off to sleep... I stared at him for hours. Precious, precious, priceless moments I will never forget. It was such a sweet reprieve from "life". Yet after taking him back home to his mommy I got to come home to "life"... many, many overwhelming problems and issues to deal with and work through.... certainly enough to send anyone with a lesser God into deep depression wondering which way to go and what step to take. Yet, so Faithfully, as He always Is... this lesson was waiting to allow me to soar on eagle's wings above the storm. Following is the prayer I wrote in response to His Word to me:
Sweet Present Lord,
I thank You for the Promise of Your Presence. I thank You that You understand and even participate empathetically in my emotions. I love the thought that You were there enjoying Braden with me! And what comfort to know that You are right here agonizing with me over the feeling that God is nowhere to be found in my circumstances. I thank You that in spite of what I feel, You are ALWAYS here guiding me! Oh, how...
I love You, too!
JJ
Psalm 139:7,8,11,12
7 I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! 8 If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there.
11 I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night— 12 but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you.
Hebrews 4:15,16
15 This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. 16 So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.
The exercise was to think back over the past two days and describe a moment of joy and a moment of sadness.
I had just spent the weekend with my sweet little fella, my 3 month old grandson, Braden. I had SOOOOO enjoyed him... literally just soaked him up... there was barely a moment all weekend that he wasn't in my arms... we talked together (or "cooed" together) :) and sang together and had the funnest, sweetest moment where we took turns making each other laugh. It was the cutest thing. His little laugh made me laugh which made him laugh bigger which made me laugh bigger and so on and so on! It was pure J-O-Y Joy!!!! Oh, and then to just watch him drift off to sleep... I stared at him for hours. Precious, precious, priceless moments I will never forget. It was such a sweet reprieve from "life". Yet after taking him back home to his mommy I got to come home to "life"... many, many overwhelming problems and issues to deal with and work through.... certainly enough to send anyone with a lesser God into deep depression wondering which way to go and what step to take. Yet, so Faithfully, as He always Is... this lesson was waiting to allow me to soar on eagle's wings above the storm. Following is the prayer I wrote in response to His Word to me:
Sweet Present Lord,
I thank You for the Promise of Your Presence. I thank You that You understand and even participate empathetically in my emotions. I love the thought that You were there enjoying Braden with me! And what comfort to know that You are right here agonizing with me over the feeling that God is nowhere to be found in my circumstances. I thank You that in spite of what I feel, You are ALWAYS here guiding me! Oh, how...
I love You, too!
JJ
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Like Little Children
Matthew 18:1-5
At this time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" He called a little child and had him stand among them. And He said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greateset in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one child like this in My name welcomes Me."
New thought here on this verse... what does it mean to be "like" a little child? What is a little child "like"? Besides the normal answer (innocent and trusting) here for this verse, just think for a moment about the last time you were around small children. What were they doing? And what were they "like" when they were doing it? When this question was posed to me I began to think of my own precious children playing at the park as we had just been there earlier. The words that came to my mind were "free", "happy", "giggly", and thoughts of how they did not have one ounce of concern about how they looked or what someone else thought of them.
Maybe this verse is talking about that very same thing... maybe when we become worry-free of our status in other's eyes, we will begin to understand Christ's point here.
Just a thought! :)
Sweet One!
I want to be free and happy and giggly in You! How blessed we are to only have One to consider in matters of our performance! And how blessed I am to live in His grace! Oh how...
I love You, too!
J
At this time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" He called a little child and had him stand among them. And He said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greateset in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one child like this in My name welcomes Me."
New thought here on this verse... what does it mean to be "like" a little child? What is a little child "like"? Besides the normal answer (innocent and trusting) here for this verse, just think for a moment about the last time you were around small children. What were they doing? And what were they "like" when they were doing it? When this question was posed to me I began to think of my own precious children playing at the park as we had just been there earlier. The words that came to my mind were "free", "happy", "giggly", and thoughts of how they did not have one ounce of concern about how they looked or what someone else thought of them.
Maybe this verse is talking about that very same thing... maybe when we become worry-free of our status in other's eyes, we will begin to understand Christ's point here.
Just a thought! :)
Sweet One!
I want to be free and happy and giggly in You! How blessed we are to only have One to consider in matters of our performance! And how blessed I am to live in His grace! Oh how...
I love You, too!
J
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