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Humbled and Blessed

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Moments with My Father
 
It’s a summertime Saturday in Idaho and I am thankful this day for so much. I am especially grateful as I read in the Psalms today about how our Father does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities, even though He hates sin and desires for us to live holy as He is holy. As high up above the earth as the heavens are, that is how great His love is for those who fear Him or stand in awe of Him. It is pretty easy to stand in awe of Him just by looking up to the heavens. His creation alone cries out how great He is and worthy to fear. He is perfect in every way and the only One who is qualified to be a judge of any of us and He is capable of taking any of us out at any moment into non-existence anywhere. Yikes!! I could be scared, but because He is perfect love, His perfect love drives out ungodly and unhealthy fear. Because He is compassionate towards us as His children, He has proved His love to us in sending Jesus into the world to make the sacrifice needed to cover our sin so that we can be reconciled to Him, the Holy God He is, who has no association with sin. He did what it took to have a healthy relationship with you and me instead of just writing us off. I am so thankful for that! As imitators and models of Him, so we should put forth the effort to go the extra to have a healthy relationship with others. We all struggle in life with imperfections. It seems that in this day and age, people repay people by giving up on relationships far too quickly when someone doesn’t live up to their expectation(s) or desires all the while they are forgetting their own falling short. A whole new perspective comes to view when we reflect on how our Father treats us and His Word that tells us to love our neighbor as our self. While I do not take lightly His desire for me to be holy as He is, as my self, it makes me very thankful to know my Father loves me and accepts me as blameless through Jesus even though on my own I’m not perfect as He. If two people both look to the cross work done for each one personally, it greatly provides the humility and the comforting love needed to keep a relationship going. I stand humbled and blessed by the cross. “Thank you, Father.”
 
Psalm 103:8-22; 1 Jn 4:13-21; Jn 3:16; Col 1:21-23

Luv Suds

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Moments with My Father
 
Hi, there. I’m lovin’ doin’ Thursday with ya’s! In my world today, I am worshipping my Father for all He is. What this world needs is more of Him and His love. He IS love! As His kids, His Word encourages us to be imitators or models of Him. The power that we need to do that is from His presence (Holy Spirit) that lives in us as believers. To love in accordance with His will, we are called to love our Father first with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind and then we are to love our neighbors, especially fellow believers, as our self. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians with the prayer that our Father would enable them to have “increased” love that would overflow to each other and to all people as well. He also let them know they were loved by himself and his team. It is God’s Spirit in us that enables us to love God, ourselves and others as we ought to, including giving us strength to not grieve His Spirit in us by giving in to willful sin. Walking in obedience to our Father’s ways that are His best for us, is our best way to be filled to overflowing with His Spirit’s loving power. Have you ever had the experience of putting soap in a bucket and seen how the soap suds can increase and bubble up and over the top? Well, this is how I see it with our Father’s Spirit producing the power in us to be love. We are the vessel (bucket) and with added soap (cleanliness of walking in obedience to His ways) and His living water (Holy Spirit) filling us up, we’ll have plentiful suds(power) to overflow with love. I have to say this just gets me all bubbly! I definitely wanna be a suds in the bucket kind of gal with His living water filling me to overflowing. May there be bubbles of Godly love oozing from each one of us so none of us are a luv suds dud. Much love to ya’s! If I say that, is that a bubble of love?
 
1 Th 3:12; Mt 22:34-40. Jn 14:15-31; Eph 1:13, 4:30, 5:1-2,15-18; Gal 6:10, Ac 2:1-4, 4:23-31, 1 Jn 1:8-10, 4:7-21, Ps 19:13, Is 41:10, 2 Ch 16:9

A Run Way Model

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Good morning to you all where ever you are!  I’m so excited to tell you after viewing our Father’s Word this morning that I’m all inspired and I’ve decided that I want to be a “run way model!” For those of you who know me, you may be thinking “Well that’s pretty presumptuous and ambitious for a woman not so young any more!” To that I will say that I happen to be a young chick in the eyes of eternity! Paul is the one who gave me this idea as he had the same passion himself. He said that he desired us to make ourselves models for others to follow. So I’m asking myself this morning “What does my life model to others?” People are always watching us as Christians. For some, as I have heard it said before, we may be the only Bible message they will ever see. I’m really hoping that my life is setting an example to others to be run way models as well which means to run His way which is to run in life in such a way as to get the eternal Heavenly prize that awaits us when our life on Earth is done. As I step out with the run way light upon me, I so want it to be His wonderful work that is displayed on my vessel. He is always giving instruction on how to walk just right and I always hate it when I’m a klutz and trip before others.  Yikes!!!  That can be pretty embarrassing, however, when that happens, it can be a good opportunity to draw attention to the clothes of humility and forgiveness that bear the name of Jesus on them as He gives me the grace to model them. These clothes have a high price tag on them. Jesus has a lifetime investment in providing them for me to wear and they cover over this body of flesh so very well. Jesus sees me as beautiful in them! So, wanting to bring glory to Jesus, this old gal is stepping out with confidence in Him to be His “run way model” and taking it one step at a time!

2 Th 3:9; 1 Co 3:10-15, 9:24, Jn 3:16, 1 Jn 1:9; Ro 13:14; 1 Pe 5:5