We're beginning to feel settled back in, but the rush and craziness of the past days...your bag is 63 pounds over! what in the world am I going to make for supper? what is that word in Creole again? I miss my family! how is this all going to get done???...has left me longing for the Lord and feeling most anxious for His presence and His obvious and powerful touch in my day-to-day life.
I'm thankful to be back in a bit of a routine again, which means that this morning Matt read Lily If You Give a Pig a Pancake and colored so Mommy could meet with the God I miss so much.
See if O. Chambers and the Word are able to lead you back to His feet, too...
We must continually remind ourselves of the purpose of life.
We are not destined to happiness, nor to health, but to holiness.
Today we have far too many desires and interests, and our lives are being consumed and wasted by them. Many of them may be right, noble, and good, and may later be fulfilled, but in the meantime God must cause their importance to us to decrease.
The only thing that truly matters is whether a person will accept the God who will make him holy. At all costs, a person must have the right relationship with God.
Do I believe I need to be holy? Do I believe that God can come into me and make me holy? If through your preaching you convince me that I am unholy, I then resent your preaching. The preaching of the gospel awakens an intense resentment because it is designed to reveal my unholiness, but it also awakens an intense yearning and desire within me.
God has only one intended destiny for mankind--holiness. His only goal is to produce saints. God is not some eternal blessing-machine for people to use, and He did NOT come to save us out of pity--He came to save us because He created us to be holy.
Atonement through the Cross of Christ means that God can put me back into perfect oneness with Himself through the death of Jesus, without a TRACE of anything coming between us any longer.
Never tolerate, because of sympathy for yourself or for others, any practice that is not keeping with a holy God.
Holiness means absolute purity of your walk before God, the words coming from your mouth, every thought in your mind...placing every detail of your life under the scrutiny of God Himself (whew...a little scary, huh!)
Holiness is not simply what God gives me, but what God has given me that is being exhibited in my life."
Thankful that we were NOT redeemed today with perishable things like gold or silver or our own futile ways, but with the precious spotless, unblemished blood of Christ...
...meaning my life must be unimaginably priceless to Him, and also far too expensive to waste on anything but His best: holiness.
Was Matt reading to Lily for him to keep in practice? Cause we know Lily could have just read to herself! LOL! Love you guys!
ReplyDeleteThis reflection reminds me a little of one I read recently in a Bible Study Guide called "Finding Strength for the Journey" by Janice Lemke. Anyway, she's talking about "Purification by Fire" and says: "I used to think of God's calling as a place or profession. Now I see He isn't as concerned about the good we do for Him, as much as the good He can put in us. Obeying His call to a place or profession is a good way to prepare for corrective surgery." I appreciated the comment because it takes the focus off of what I'm doing and puts it back on the state of my heart before God, regardless of where I am and what the circumstances around me are...
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