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This morning I woke once again to an empty house. Only our cat is here to listen as I pray and watch as I spend my quiet time with God. The other end of the couch is empty and I ache to hold Linda in my arms. Through all of this I pray constantly for Linda to have a life-changing experience with the Lord on her Walk to Emmaus and look forward with great anticipation for her return tomorrow night.
God gave me love once and I spent 38 years with Billie Jean, a wonderful woman who is the mother of my child. When her allotted time was done, God took her home and she is with Jesus now. He blessed my daughter with 4 children and a grandchild, all knit together as an awesome family.
He must have seen how very lost I was for God then gave me love again. What an awesome, loving God that He would bring me to salvation, redeem my sins and put Linda in my life. We celebrate our union with each other and the Lord every day try follow the way and path of Jesus. Life is good with God.
When you are redeemed by the blood of Jesus remember that nothing on the outside has changed. The world is the same, your family is the same, the city is the same, your neighbor is the same, you even look the same. But; if you do nothing, no one will ever see what happened. It will be just like salvation never happened to you and that is unacceptable, unacceptable to God and unacceptable to your soul.
You know things are different on the inside, gratitude for the grace of God should overflow from your heart and impel you to action. You should have been catapulted from your seat in the sanctuary into the world, asking your church, your Christian brothers and sisters these question. How can I serve God? Where can I show the love of Jesus to the world? Who needs to hear about Jesus? How do I become a more effective witness for Christ?
There can be a great deal of fear and trepidation associated with showing your family and friends the new you, the redeemed you. Even scarier is the first time you invite them to walk with you on your new path. Just remember someone cared enough to walk with you to meet Jesus.
The Lord our God. Now there is an expression that bears reviewing. Does it mean that God belongs to us? Many people and religions act as though this is true, wrongheaded as it is. If God belonged to us it would mean that we created Him. We fashioned Him from our own minds, our own intellect and gave Him His powers. If this were true then our wishes would all be fulfilled. Nice idea but unmanageable.
The Lord our God. This is a phrase that should be an expression of God’s ownership of us and our acceptance of that ownership, our willingness to submit to His authority. Perhaps the most striking aspect of God, besides His awesome power and absolute sovereignty, is His act of giving mankind free will, the ability accept Him or reject Him. Then, even after we rejected Him, He still extends His hand of friendship to us.
The Lord our God. He came to us in the form of Jesus His Son, lived a perfect life among us, accepted our hatred and still took our sins upon Himself, died to free us from our sins and rose on the third day to sit at the right hand of the Father and advocate for us so that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
LEARNING TO WALK WITH JESUS 