Oh How He Loves Us

Part 2.

Isaiah 53:8-12

"By oppression and judgment He was taken away. Yet who of His generation protested? For He was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people He was punished. He was assigned a grave with the wicked, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it was the LORD's will to crush Him and cause Him to suffer, and though the LORD makes His life an offering for sin, He will see His offspring and prolong His days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in His hand. After He has suffered, He will see the light of life and be satisfied; by His knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and He will bear their inequities. Therefore I will give Him a portion among the great and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He poured out His life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressions. For He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."



It was by His amazing grace that He loved us so much that He went through all that pain and sorrow without even opening His mouth!!

Verse 7
"He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did NOT open His mouth.."

Oh How He Loves Us

Part 1.

John 15:16
"You did not choose me, I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit-fruit that will last-and so that whatever you ask in My name the Father will give to you."

As Long As...

As long as the wind blows,
You will have joy and hope.
As long as the birds in the trees chirp,
You will never thirst.
As long as the bees buz from flower to flower,
You will know that you have a loving Savior that watches over you ever hour.
And when the world give way,
And Jesus descends from heaven,
You will still have a Savior who loves you now and even then.


I wrote this poem in anxiousness. I needed a reminder that Jesus still loves me and that He is watching over me. Jesus loves us all the time; even when we fail Him day after day.

Isaiah 53:1-7
"Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
He grew up before Him like tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering , and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces He was despised, and we held Him low in esteem. Surely He took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered Him punished by God, stricken by Him, and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on Him, and by His wounds we are healed. We all are like sheep that have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth; He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth."

Return To Me

Luke 11:28

"Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it." 

We are blessed when we are walking with the Lord. 

John 8:12

"I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." 

If we follow the Lord, we will never walk in darkness. 

I have been drifting from following the Lord lately. My prayer life is slacking off, my daily Bible reading is more like,"Well, I have to read my Bible again." when it should be,"What a blessing it is to be able to read God's word without fear of being killed." We take that privilege lightly sometimes. 

And I feel horrible for that. 

But we can confess that sin to the Lord and He will forgive us.

We should  NOT let that be a weapon because we should be reading our Bible everyday!!!

Our Roles as Christians

My dad sent me this and I thought it was really good. It tells us what our roles are as Christians.


2 Corinthians 5:20
"We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God."


The Christian should remember that every day she/he lives, she/he has . . .
   a God to glorify,
   a soul to save,
   repentance to perform,
   a Savior to believe and imitate,
   a body to mortify through the Spirit,
   graces and virtues to nurture by earnest prayer,
   sins to weep over and forsake,
   mercies and deliverance to be thankful for,
   a Hell to avoid,
   a Paradise to gain,
   an eternity to meditate upon,
   time to redeem,
   a neighbor to edify,
   works of charity to perform,
   a world to fear, and yet to conquer,
   demons to combat,
   passions to subdue, and
   perhaps, death to suffer, and judgment to undergo!
And all these must be met and performed in the grace of Christ, and not in your own strength, which is perfect weakness. 

"Hold me up, and I shall be safe!" Psalm 119:117

Something Quite Amazing

I wanted to share something with everyone today. I have been struggling with keeping my prayer life constant, so I have been praying about it and asking God to help me somehow to keep it constant. Well, last night I went to a Christmas party with my friend, and there was a white elephant gift exchange. It was my turn to pick a present. So I picked a smaller one and opened it. Guess what was in it? A PRAYER JOURNAL!!! It was filled with things to pray about, how to pray, and when and where to pray! It was an answer to my prayers! I was so excited I hide it, that no one would steal it. God DOES answer prayers!

Obey

This morning in my devotional (which I must confess, I have not done it everyday) I learned about the importance of obedience. God mentions it tons of times in the Bible, so it must be something we need to do. 

Matthew 5:41 

"If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles." 

I loved this verse when I read it.  What I got from it: I should be obedient without grumbling or complaining and that I should go the extra mile; be considerate of others and actually try to obey with joyfulness. I struggle with not obeying the first time. But, God tells me that I must honor my authorities and obey them. 

This doesn't mean that if we disobey sometimes, and grumble when have to obey, that we don't love the LORD. But we are sinful people, so of course we will disobey. But God will forgive us and we must be sincere in our confession of disobedience. 

            

If You Doubt

God Has A Plan

Ever feel like your life is being wasted? Or that there is no purpose for you? I feel like that. I feel like I have no life because my daily routine is this: Wake up, eat breakfast, do school, eat lunch, dinner time, and back to bed again. Exciting life, right? Yes, it is actually. It is because it is where God wants me to be right now. He is preparing me for the future. He has plans in store for me and for everyone. As small as this plan seems to me right now, it is great to God. 

Jeremiah 29:11

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD,"plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." 

That sounds like a plan to me! 

Verse 12 goes on to say, "Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you."

If we call on the name of the LORD, He will listen. 

Philippians 1:5

"Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." 

We can be confident that God will carry out His amazing plan for our lives! 

Give Me Jesus

Live For God

(Romans 12:2)

We must stand strong in Jesus Christ so that we will not be shaken by this world and the sin that is in it. Lately my life has been going well. "That's good," you may think. It is good except for one thing: When my life is going pretty smooth, I tend to think that I don't need God anymore and that I can take care of myself, do whatever I want, and just live to please myself. But NO! That's where I go wrong! I ALWAYS need God, I can NOT do whatever I want because I am a sinful person, I most definitely can NOT take care of myself (I'm just a teen), and living to please myself is the worst! I must live to please God! That is why He created me, and when I get in this state of mind/being, I can tell you it is NOT pleasing God in anyway, shape or form. Once again we must NOT be conformed to the pattern of this world. The world says, "Live for yourselves! Make yourself happy! It's all about you!". That is just wrong. Life is NOT about us; it is about God and only God. Living to please God, living to glorify God, living to honor God, living to make disciples of men for God, and so much more about God! 

We must present our bodies as living sacrifices (for God) because that is why we were created.  

1 John 2:15-17

"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the father is not in them. For everything in the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life-comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever." 

I will not be posting on the weekends anymore so that everyone can have a chance to catch up.

Faith

1 Corinthians 2:5

"So that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power."

We must put our faith in God, not man. Man doesn't last forever, but God does; so put your faith in something that is eternal. 

Luke 18:27

"What is impossible with man is possible with God."

Galatians 2:20

"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." 

Why would we not want to put our faith in a God who knows the stars by their names? 

Mark 5:36

"..Do not fear, only believe." 

If we are to believe in something, let us believe in God!