remind me

"Father help me wait for my full reward, remind that its not here....my sould cannot rest here.."
-Shelly Moore Band-

This world is good because God created in and said it was good. We are his people. We are sinners but he loves us anyway..not because of anything we do, but because HE is God and his love is unconditional. We can never earn salvation. We have to know him, strive to know him, and Love Him with all our heart, mind, and soul. But even in this we do not belong here. We will be complete in Heaven..with our Savior

This is so amazing and such an incredible gift!! we in no way, shape, or form deserve this. and all we have to do is accept it. This world is full of the results of our sin. We are sinful. We disobey God. We hurt others with our words, and others are hurt also with violence. We cheat on our spouses, we hurt our children, we have unrealistic selfish expectations of others, we are quick to anger and slow to forgive. ("A hot tempered man stirs up dissension, but a patient man calms a quarrel." Proverbs 15:18) We are stubborn, greedy, never satisified with what we have. we get jealous, we are not pure, we dont love the way God loves. All these things and more are what fill our lives..our minds..our hearts.. but Jesus blood can cover this, He can begin to erase these things and replace them with his truths, his words, his hope, his love, his forgiveness, his humility. Only by asking him and seeking him for help will this be possible. The scripture is full of examples our sin and impurites..but it is also full of how merciful and gracious our Father and Savior in Heaven is. God never leaves us without hope..He is our hope.

Hope..it is important that we have the hope God gives us. Hope for the salvation of others. Hope in our friends and companions. Hope that God can heal brokeness, hope that God can change our wicked heart, hope that God can reveal the depths of our heart that we dont even know about or see. Hope that God will help us understand..understand Him, his Truth, others, feelings, thoughts, undertsand his love, his hope, understand that sometimes we wont understand but in those cases we are called to have faith in HIM..not in what he has done, or what he will do for us .but soley in HIM and who HE is...He is I AM. That is such a powerful statement i pray God lets me grasp the depths of that statement and never take for granted the fact that He allows me to have a relationship with the I AM.

I read this last night from Psalms.it gives me hope..and a right perspective on life and the problems that i think are so hard or impossible to change or fix..

PSALM 25:1-7
"To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul; in you i trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse.

Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Remember, O Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Remember not the sins of my outh and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O Lord."

Today my hope is in Jesus all day long. And when i wake up tomorrow i will say the same thing, and on and on...