“God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond.”
DEUTERONOMY 29-30
19This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.(30:9-20)
JOURNAL
God makes it very clear...we are to "choose life". He is that life...it is the same for the women upon coming to the tomb. Nothing is really explained...they are just told to go and Jesus will be waiting for them. The hurt and pain of the crucifixion is over, it's a new day and they are told to go.
Surrender to God everything, seek him in all things, choose life and go as he commands. This is the essence of the Gospel, yet we make it far more complicated. I think it becomes more complicated because, for me, I don't fully trust God, all the time and in all things. Meaning I don't seek him constantly...
This is the rub, this is the dance with sin. This is why I need these reminders, every moment of every day. But I can see and feel how a life lived this way would be. It would be one where I fully trusted the future, was at peace with the past and was sold out to the present moment, living to give and be my best in obedience to God. Why do I not do this??? I think it's because I don't fully trust the future, I am not at peace with the past, therefore I am not sold out to the present.
So while I do need God in the present...where I really need to trust him are in the things that are out of my control...the past and the future. Surrender those fully to God and obedience in the moment becomes much more attainable.
God makes it very clear...we are to "choose life". He is that life...it is the same for the women upon coming to the tomb. Nothing is really explained...they are just told to go and Jesus will be waiting for them. The hurt and pain of the crucifixion is over, it's a new day and they are told to go.
Surrender to God everything, seek him in all things, choose life and go as he commands. This is the essence of the Gospel, yet we make it far more complicated. I think it becomes more complicated because, for me, I don't fully trust God, all the time and in all things. Meaning I don't seek him constantly...
This is the rub, this is the dance with sin. This is why I need these reminders, every moment of every day. But I can see and feel how a life lived this way would be. It would be one where I fully trusted the future, was at peace with the past and was sold out to the present moment, living to give and be my best in obedience to God. Why do I not do this??? I think it's because I don't fully trust the future, I am not at peace with the past, therefore I am not sold out to the present.
So while I do need God in the present...where I really need to trust him are in the things that are out of my control...the past and the future. Surrender those fully to God and obedience in the moment becomes much more attainable.
17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.a The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
18All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
20Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God. 21God made Him who knew no sin to be sinb on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:17-21
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