March 10 2016

March 10 2016 Greetings My Friend The first thing each morning drinking tea and reading the Word has gotten my study need on. I have missed this for a very long time but the fog I experienced in the morning made my thinking and processing very foggy. With my recent ability to process, leave the house earlier and function again I found it was time to wake up with the Word of God. My study sessions find me jotting notes as I read and I love the student in me growing deeper in my faith journey. 2 Chronicles is today’s reading and I find the phrase again “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God states again and again the lineage He wants me to follow and the true God He is. I find myself quoting this to myself almost daily and sometimes I share this phrase with others. I hear loud and clear that there is no other God but the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. While I am reading I see again that God is dismayed at the sacrifice of children. He is repulsed even. I admit that at one point I felt God would want me to do what I wanted to do in regards to my body and if a child was inconvenient well…. When Junior first started introducing the Bible to me he often pointed to Psalm 139 the part that states that God knit the child together in his mother’s womb. It did give me pause and I also found myself reminding myself that God thought I was so important to have watched over my being formed in my mother’s womb. For me I relate more to God’s disdain for destroying life to these child sacrifices. Many times the child was ripped from the mother’s womb or was born and later offered on an altar of fire to some other god. These illustrations struck me hard. It was here that I discovered that God is a God of the living and not a God of the dead. God does not want a life destroyed in general. Knowing that God finds me special even when man does not makes my will to live so strong. My will to live anymore is a will to live life to the fullest. I find that a life filled with loving, giving, serving and spreading the Gospel to be full and rich. It is my gift back to God. Junior has taught me there is a difference between killing and murder. I am able to absorb some of this concept and this discussion is for another time. Over all God is a God of the living. I understand that eternity is part of “the living” . With these thoughts my goal is to honor life my life, the one in much sin too. Jesus did not go the people who were right with God but to the lost, the lonely and the hurting. Many of those who met Jesus were changed and went on to live and spread God’s abundant grace. I would hate to shut the door of eternal life because someone did not match my standards of living. God also does not call me to be a rug walked all over in the name of being nice. I am able to make judgements from time to time. Some of the people will not allow God’s love and grace to rest upon them. I am allowed to move on when I see that some won’t accept what I am able to offer. There is always a point that I need to let go and let God, all I can do is love, give my story and once the seed has been planted it is then in God’s hands. May God bless you and keep you make His face shine on you. Love Janet