secure

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secure

Do you ever worry about things?

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This truth is one that should erase ALL worry from our minds!

We {as believers} are secure in our position
before God through Jesus Christ!

Just read through these verses below and see if they don’t help you today….

31~ What shall we then say to these things? IF God be for us, who can be against us?
32~He that spared not his own Son, but delievered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33~Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? it is God that justifieth.
34~Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35~Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36~As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37~Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38~For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39~Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:31-39

I think the list of things we might think could separate us from God is quite complete and all-inclusive! There is nothing we can even imagine that could separate us from the love of God…and in this brief and fleeting life on earth, does anything else matter?

There is really nothing more I can say here. Just read those verses again {meditate on them!} if you feel worry creeping up!

Do you ever worry about things?

{{HAND RAISED HERE!}

This truth is one that should erase ALL worry from our minds!

We {as believers} are secure in our position
before God through Jesus Christ!

Just read through these verses below and see if they don’t help you today….

31~ What shall we then say to these things? IF God be for us, who can be against us?
32~He that spared not his own Son, but delievered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33~Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? it is God that justifieth.
34~Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35~Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36~As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37~Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38~For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39~Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:31-39

I think the list of things we might think could separate us from God is quite complete and all-inclusive! There is nothing we can even imagine that could separate us from the love of God…and in this brief and fleeting life on earth, does anything else matter?

There is really nothing more I can say here. Just read those verses again {meditate on them!} if you feel worry creeping up!

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complete

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complete

Colossians 2:9-10
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power…

This passage is so encouraging!

Earlier we are cheered by the reminder of our access to ALL the treasures of wisdom and knowledge found in God through Jesus. Then we are admonished to walk in Christ with thankfulness and to beware of false doctrines! We can best interpret faulty teachings through THOROUGH study of TRUTH!

Then we are emboldened to know that we are COMPLETE… in Jesus.

The fulness of God dwells in Jesus… and He is our head–the head of ALL principality and power!

We may struggle each day to find our focus, even find our motivation…
but remembering that we are COMPLETE in CHRIST should help us do all we do!

He is right here with you, completing all you need to accomplish your daily tasks…

what JOY!

Colossians 2:9-10
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power…

This passage is so encouraging!

Earlier we are cheered by the reminder of our access to ALL the treasures of wisdom and knowledge found in God through Jesus. Then we are admonished to walk in Christ with thankfulness and to beware of false doctrines! We can best interpret faulty teachings through THOROUGH study of TRUTH!

Then we are emboldened to know that we are COMPLETE… in Jesus.

The fulness of God dwells in Jesus… and He is our head–the head of ALL principality and power!

We may struggle each day to find our focus, even find our motivation…
but remembering that we are COMPLETE in CHRIST should help us do all we do!

He is right here with you, completing all you need to accomplish your daily tasks…

what JOY!

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forgiven

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forgiven

I am forgiven. 
Salvation is deliverance from the eternal consequences of sin and is accomplished through forgiveness by Christ’ blood.

Forgiveness is a continual thing.

God no longer sees me and the blackness of my heart (and it is black). He sees the Work of Christ. Jesus is my substitute. Not only did He take my sin upon His very being on the cross, He gave His righteousness, His innocence, to me.

God sees His perfection when I come to His throne and cast my cares. This is forgiveness. This is why He even hears my prayers. 

 Yes, I can hinder my own conversation with God through unconfessed sin, even after salvation {salvation happens only once and is complete, there is no need to ask again}. But I must repent of sin daily and specifically in order to maintain that fellowship in which He sees only Jesus’ cleanliness of heart. 
 
for today: Am I living in my forgiveness? Have I remembered that the righteous blanket of His Blood is covering my soul right now? Does it show?
 
…in whom we have redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of sins,
according to the riches of his grace…
Ephesians 1:7
I am forgiven. 
Salvation is deliverance from the eternal consequences of sin and is accomplished through forgiveness by Christ’ blood.

Forgiveness is a continual thing.

God no longer sees me and the blackness of my heart (and it is black). He sees the Work of Christ. Jesus is my substitute. Not only did He take my sin upon His very being on the cross, He gave His righteousness, His innocence, to me.

God sees His perfection when I come to His throne and cast my cares. This is forgiveness. This is why He even hears my prayers. 

 Yes, I can hinder my own conversation with God through unconfessed sin, even after salvation {salvation happens only once and is complete, there is no need to ask again}. But I must repent of sin daily and specifically in order to maintain that fellowship in which He sees only Jesus’ cleanliness of heart. 
 
for today: Am I living in my forgiveness? Have I remembered that the righteous blanket of His Blood is covering my soul right now? Does it show?
 
…in whom we have redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of sins,
according to the riches of his grace…
Ephesians 1:7

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a new creation

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a new creation

This is what I am.

Not because of anything I have done. 

Quite contrary.

It is only because of what Christ has done for me, in me- sometimes even as I resist. So sad. Why do I do that?

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away;

behold, all things are become new. 

II Corinthians 5:17

As Christians, we are new creatures.

But the old man is still there, lurking.

I must remember each day that who I am should be determined by who I know (Jesus) and not what I feel (fleshly desires). And whatever I model each day is what my children will learn that day, and what my husband will remember about the day as he lays his head down to sleep. And don’t forget the people we meet each week who may know nothing of Christianity, save what they see in our life.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision,
but a new creature.
Galatians 6:15

There is nothing I can do of myself that will manifest this new creation. Only through God’s strength can my life show this newness. Going to church, having a facade of pleasantness, being helpful… are nothing…

nothing, without His light shining through.

My prayer for this day is that I (we) would remember that I AM A NEW CREATION.

And I should not resemble what once was.

Teach me, O Lord, the way of they statues; and I shall keep it unto the end.

Psalm 119:33

This is what I am.

Not because of anything I have done. 

Quite contrary.

It is only because of what Christ has done for me, in me- sometimes even as I resist. So sad. Why do I do that?

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away;

behold, all things are become new. 

II Corinthians 5:17

As Christians, we are new creatures.

But the old man is still there, lurking.

I must remember each day that who I am should be determined by who I know (Jesus) and not what I feel (fleshly desires). And whatever I model each day is what my children will learn that day, and what my husband will remember about the day as he lays his head down to sleep. And don’t forget the people we meet each week who may know nothing of Christianity, save what they see in our life.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision,
but a new creature.
Galatians 6:15

There is nothing I can do of myself that will manifest this new creation. Only through God’s strength can my life show this newness. Going to church, having a facade of pleasantness, being helpful… are nothing…

nothing, without His light shining through.

My prayer for this day is that I (we) would remember that I AM A NEW CREATION.

And I should not resemble what once was.

Teach me, O Lord, the way of they statues; and I shall keep it unto the end.

Psalm 119:33

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