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| Open the Holy Bible for the greatest love letter ever written! |
Being in the Word always reminds daily of submitting all to God, and allowing Him to have His way in our lives. But alas, many choose at times to go their way in their own thinking and ability!
So while God thought out the heavens and earth and placed a specific thought on a page of Adam and with a tree in the center of his garden, would Adam submit his all to God and walk the way God planned? NO! He did not!
Adam relinquished his life with God for that of scratching out a living, not more in the glory of God but in the flesh, sin and death! Once more Adam played the blame game with God.....that woman YOU gave me....! Not a good attitude to have with God! Why did Adam not tend to the garden and his wife which lived there with him?
In thinking of this today, I was reminded of my grandmother who lived in another state from us while we grew from babies to young adults. She was my mother's mother and she loved to write letters and cards and with great detail she planned what she needed at her work station; her writing desk!
Anytime we went on vacation to see our grandparents, I could inspect her writing desk, writing tablet, book of stamps, envelopes for letters and cards, several pens in black and blue ink and of course her list of family members.
Living in a small home, she had desk that would fold out with a level writing surface. Though compact and would close out of sight, still I knew what was held behind in those out of sight shelves. When she was ready to write to someone that was on her mind, she would open that small door to reveal the compartments with all her supplies lined in a row before her and then she would begin! I loved receiving her letters and when I took Spanish in Junior High School, I would write to her in Spanish. Although she would not speak in Spanish to me when we visited, still she thoroughly knew that language as she did her English language.
She would write back to me asking how I was doing learning a second language and to keep up the good work. No she did not put a smiley face on the letter or envelop, but I knew the love that was composed in those pages she wrote to me and for me. I would always inspect the powder blue sheets of stationary and wonder what other colors she had purchased to write those long letters.
Surely I would pray that people would see the love the Father has for His, He calls as His sons. That we all would know His goodness and He sat down and planned it to a perfect plan that comes from an Almighty God! I would pray that we know the love story enfolded into the pages of the Holy Bible. I would not pray they have a joyful holiday but a joyful life in God! I would not pray that they would get what they wanted for a special day, but that they might receive that perfect thing from God who has the best for each of His children.
In 1 Peter 4:6-11 we are told of the manifold grace of God that has given us His ability through that grace to glorify God by the Holy Spirit of God and in Ephesians 3:8-12 wisdom of God that came by Jesus Christ! He was made unto us wisdom!
1 Peter. 4:6-11 For this
reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be
judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
7 But the end of all things is at hand, therefore be serious &watchful in
your prayers. 8 & above all things have fervent love for one another, for
love will cover a multitude of sins. 9 Be hospitable to one another without
grumbling. 10 as each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as
good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If anyone speaks, let him speak
as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability
(anointing) which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through
Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory & the dominion forever & ever.
Amen
If we are to speak, we should speak according to the way our Father in heaven speaks. In the oracles or teachings of God, we are given instruction of that ability given us through Jesus Christ and when we have made Him our Savior and Lord!
If we are to speak, we should speak according to the way our Father in heaven speaks. In the oracles or teachings of God, we are given instruction of that ability given us through Jesus Christ and when we have made Him our Savior and Lord!
Ephesians. 3:8-12
8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was
given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of
Christ, 9 and to make all see what is that fellowship of the mystery, which
from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things
through Jesus Christ; 10 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God
might be made known by the church to the principalities and power in the
heavenly places, 11 according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in
Christ Jesus our Lord, 12 in whom we have boldness & access with confidence through faith in
Him.
As the intentions of God was made known, that we would have access to the manifold wisdom of God, His varied expressions of joy and life for His own, and that we, not a church building, but you and I would speak, reveal and make known His goodness....to the principalities and power in the heavenly places. That would look like voting for the Bible-based person or persons who seek God and expect His will to be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
So sad many people are stuck on the package of who or what their leader should be or look like.....they reveal their agendas, those motives that have nothing to do with life but only of death.....and when God is on the scene we must be sure we stay within God's plan and not mess with it by speaking ill of those who lead their country, their state or their family by the word of God and truth. For us to act as mentioned in Ephesians 3 that we are to make known to the enemy (Satan) that we are ruled by God and will operate as he does on earth as He does in heaven.
But ruling for abortions is against God and against life of a person. Ruling in favor of same -sex marriages, is against what God placed in His letter in Genesis to us of one man with one woman. God is true and real follow Him, but if Baal is true follow him!
No, surely our hope is to be in Jesus Christ, and act like He did! When we truly know what His love letter to us says, then we truly can be that person who reveals life to another. It will not be by manipulating or only gave half-truths, but it will be by us truly seeking the Father of light to reveal light to others.
My grandmother passed at an early age of sixty four years of age. Her life, well, she did regularly attended church, she regularly shopped at the local grocery market and prepared meals. She washed dishes with no dishwasher available. She washed their clothes at the local laundromat and she wrote letters to others.
My intent is to reach out to let you know your Father in heaven loves you and is waiting to speak with you. I sit at my desk and am reminded what an impact those letters written so many years ago made in my life....I hope this does the same. For someone loves you and His name is Jesus. Someone loves you and gave His life for you. Someone loves and sends this to remind you that He is ready and waiting to hear......HE wants to show you what was Finished for You when His SON went to Calvary!
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