(niv)1 Thess. 1: 4 For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you, 5 because our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction.
deep conviction....woke up feeling challenged, asking myself IS my stake in the ground.....I think it is.....there is nothing in me that doesn't want it to be. The fear still lies there and yet more and more this desire to live in risk seems to be 'changing' it to a call to faith and trust and in faith and trust is gratitude and in the gratitude I find myself humbled and filled with praise.......
2 Samuel 22: 2-3
God is bedrock under my feet,
the castle in which I live,
my rescuing knight.
My God—the high crag
where I run for dear life,
hiding behind the boulders,
safe in the granite hideout;
My mountaintop refuge,
he saves me from ruthless men.
4 I sing to God the Praise-Lofty,
and find myself safe and saved.
1 Thess. 1: 2-5 Every time we think of you, we thank God for you. Day and night you're in our prayers as we call to mind your work of faith, your labor of love, and your patience of hope in following our Master, Jesus Christ, before God our Father. It is clear to us, friends, that God not only loves you very much but also has put his hand on you for something special. When the Message we preached came to you, it wasn't just words. Something happened in you. The Holy Spirit put steel in your convictions.
Something special......for my Grandkids to know you as children somehow, someway...to touch lives in their lifetimes with a love of God, in Christ that ...see,there I go trying to figure it out instead of just living trusting YOU. To live a life of trust and faith loving others, all others....
and then there's this.... Most of us have settled for being stirred
as a substitute for being transformed.
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