I miss you whoever you are.

Okay, so I’m a little weird this morning.

Okay, so I’m usually a little weird, but who’s counting.  Are we not as Christians supposed to be peculiar.

(1 Peter 2:9 KJV)  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

I am joking, but then finding this verse I thought I would drop it in anyway because it is so powerful as we see the vision that God would have us embrace as his people.

But I miss writing to you, whoever you are.  I miss sitting here slumped in my chair staring at a computer screen tapping out my thoughts and sending them out to Neverland.

Except “Neverland” for those of us who receive life from God through Jesus Christ is real and is more and greater than anything our imaginations could come up with.

(Ephesians 3:20 MSG)  God can do anything, you know–far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.

Isn’t reading those words from God like a tonic, an elixir?  Slurp. . .Mmmm. . .good. . .

“. . .far more than you [or I] could ever imagine. . .not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.”

Ah, I feel better already.  I think I will have another swig.  Let’s see now. . .what else does God say about his relationship to those who know him?

(Romans 8:31-39 NCV)  So what should we say about this?

If God is with us, no one can defeat us.  (32)  He did not spare his own Son but gave him for us all. So with Jesus, God will surely give us all things.

(33)  Who can accuse the people God has chosen?

No one, because God is the One who makes them right.

(34)  Who can say God’s people are guilty?

No one, because Christ Jesus died, but he was also raised from the dead, and now he is on God’s right side, begging God for us.

(35)  Can anything separate us from the love Christ has for us? Can troubles or problems or sufferings or hunger or nakedness or danger or violent death?  (36)  As it is written in the Scriptures: “For you we are in danger of death all the time. People think we are worth no more than sheep to be killed.”

(37)  But in all these things we have full victory through God who showed his love for us.

(38)  Yes, I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor ruling spirits, nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers,  (39)  nothing above us, nothing below us, nor anything else in the whole world will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Where else can you get your butt kicked and come out on top, always, forever.

Cmon’, Sam, open another bottle, turn the page.  This stuff is good.