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I can not begin to describe how my life has changed since I cried out to Jesus. I realized that my life was spiraling out of control and I was helpless to stop it. I consider myself a strong person and have always felt that I could handle any situation. Boy was I wrong. As God's creation, we are all fallible and broken and it is only through His help that we can be the people we were intended to be. Sure people cry out all the time but it's not until you actually resign the fact that you are not in control and allow Him to take over that your life can actually change.
I have found that being a Christian is much harder than living for the self-serving flesh but the benefits and blessings that God gives far outweigh the confusion and frustration of life without Him. I encourage you to realistically search your heart and you too will see that somewhere, somehow, something is missing. At that point if you will do the following, your life - and by life I mean your whole waking outlook - will improve. I am by no means a perfect Christian but I continue to struggle and try. This is all He asks for.
I no longer worry or fret or concern myself with the hassles of the day and you can live like this as well.
I want to know Jesus
God WILL bless you if you ask and let Him.
If you’re at all like me, you have spent some time beating yourself up for some sin you have committed. We tend to look at these instances in such a focused, harsh light directed right at our failure instead of grasping the “big picture.” This is by no means to say that sin is okay but we need to be more conscious of what to do with it.
While I was pondering this I heard one of my favorite songs and I knew it was affirmation. In the song, “We Fall Down” by Bob Carlisle there is the line, “The saints are just the sinners who fall down and get up” and this is the wonderful blessing of grace: no matter how we struggle in the race, God will never leave us and Jesus has already paid our price of admission to the Kingdom if only we trust and believe in Him.
Here is the big point; we must get back up. As the apostle Paul alluded to in 2 Corinthians 7, we have to struggle with our sin in order to produce Godly repentance but we still have a race to run and can’t just wallow. Our failures are just blips along the way that need to be recognized (but not dwelt on) and repented of so that we can be blessed with the “big picture.”
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory”
-- 2 Corinthians 4:16-17
Each morning I try and make sure to read a daily devotional from the bible and as I was flipping to the passages to read I came across something else I had highlighted. I just wanted to share this with you and would hope that you can get something out of it.
Psalm 103:12 says, “As far as east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.”
I find this passage fascinating for several reasons and one of them is for what it says about the time it was written. King David lived around 1000 BC and when he wrote this everyone was under the belief that the earth was flat. Remember that it wasn’t until the great sailors of Columbus’ era and the astronomers like Copernicus in the 1400 & 1500’s AD made the realization that the earth was round.
Now consider this; we know that if you travel north long enough you will reach a pole and then you will be traveling south until you reach another pole and start travelling north again. This means that there is an absolute distance between north and south – 12,436 miles (20,014 km). When it comes to the distance from east to west however, if you head off in one direction you will always be heading in that direction so it’s pretty safe to say that the distance from east to west is limitless.
With this in mind how is it that a guy knew to use east/west instead of north/south in his writing? Did he flip a shekel? I highly doubt it. To me this points to divine inspiration since we can read it now and actually see that this phrase can be used to mean “infinite” or “never ending.”
Isn’t it even the slightest bit amazing that there could be (actually is) a God that loves us so much that He is willing to forgive us infinitely when we believe and trust in Him?
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