What a Savior

I just relized I hardly ever do any personal blogs.
I may come across to those who have read my blog before as a robot that just parrots off things she reads being that most of my posts are from different people/authors... What motivates me to post what I do is that it strikes a cord within me and I believe that it might be of good use to someone now or in the future. I don't know if it will or not. Only God does.

 My motivation for starting my little blog here was to this end... that it would edify and encourage in Jesus Christ. I hope it will also be a means of fellowship.

I understand that I could chronicle my personal life on here. But in all honesty I don't find myself that exciting...
That's not to downplay personal blogs. I really enjoy them!

I, however, have a God, The One True God, who is very exciting....
One who I feel most alive when I am learning at His feet
One who I love
One who I feel a slave to...
and yet One who has set  me free.

I've belonged to the Lord all my life. He revealed His grace in the sending of His Son to me when I was 17 at, no joke, the lowest most disgustingly sinful time in my life. I look at the timing of my salvation as a testimony to the mercy of God and as a testimony to the full weight of sin that was placed up Jesus as He hung upon the cross.

I claimed Him as my own. Forever.

As I've been following behind Him for 8 years now, and I see His ways unfold, I am challenged. Christ meant it when He said 'Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will keep it'. I've learned that following Him does not mean filling our head with all kinds of different things for the sake of having  knowledge, but to follow Him requires a letting go of what was once so important , a stripping and weakening myself, a simplifying of myself so I am able to stay on the narrow road home. The more I know  God the easier these things become. "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."(Phillipians 4:13). And yet I can do nothing apart from Him. "...As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in Me."(John 15:4)

My walk with the Lord is not marked with great outward enjoyment. But I am blessed, and my soul knows and delights in the things of the Lord!  My greatest times as a christian have come when God has allowed me to drink from the steams of Living Water when I've been in the desert and has given me the Bread of Life when my soul was so hungry.

If there are any who read this and do not know the Lord Jesus, He is the Way.

Have you heard? Jesus Himself took the punishment we deserved. He was sinless. His hands were completely clean and yet "(God) made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might be the righteousness of God in Him."(2 Cor. 5:21). Are your sins forgiven? They must be by God's prescribed means, and that is Jesus. You cannot hope to stand before Him without being washed by Perfect Blood. It is madness to refuse this grace. You do not deserve it, for that reason take it. Because you don't deserve it, take it! It is THE only hope.