This is what was on my mind a couple mornings ago.\u00a0 Not sure why.\u00a0 Maybe I was especially bad that morning, maybe I was in the middle of a really good prayer time.\u00a0 Doesn’t matter where I was because the truth stands apart from my goodness or badness.<\/p>\n
Forgiveness is always waiting for us.\u00a0 Always there.<\/p>\n
What we have done or thought about doing …<\/p>\n
Bad stuff, good stuff, in-between stuff …<\/p>\n
All taken care of through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 God doesn’t want us cringing in the corner, whipping ourselves.<\/p>\n
He also doesn’t want us full of ourselves.<\/p>\n
Just bow before the King and approach his throne with boldness because he already paid the full price.<\/p>\n
Christ has provided what we need for the journey.\u00a0 I was talking to someone the other day and saying that the more I live (read the older I get) the less I am prone to criticize and judge.\u00a0 Been through too much, friend.<\/p>\n
And here is a really great aspect of the saga.\u00a0 The people who have “been through too much” and come out on the other side of God’s grace and mercy and love, the people who have tasted the deliciousness of God’s forgiveness.<\/p>\n
Beauty.\u00a0 Real beauty.\u00a0 Beauty that you see and feel when you are around them.\u00a0 Beauty that drifts over you when you read an email from them or talk to them on the phone.<\/p>\n
There’s something so medicinal, even intoxicating, about the person who depends greatly on the cross-work of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 They are the ones I want around when I am happy and sad, when I go to war in the name of my Savior.<\/p>\n
All fresh and clean and dripping with the love of God.<\/p>\n
What a friend is the friend of Jesus.<\/p>\n
This is what was on my mind a couple mornings ago.\u00a0 Not sure why.\u00a0 Maybe I was especially bad that morning, maybe I was in the middle of a really good prayer time.\u00a0 Doesn’t matter where I was because the … Continue reading