Post by Pilgrim Marc on Dec 22, 2008 13:11:15 GMT -5
Grace like a sword, love like a fire…
He, Jesus the Christ died for you when you where still a sinner, His grace as there before you earned grace, before you even recognized grace as being there for you.
He, Jesus the Messiah became sin in order to deliver us from sin, and the death that follows sin.
He, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings paid the ultimate price in order to deliver us from sin, our selfish live and from the influence of the disobedience of Adam to re-create us in His tribe coming from every tribe, tongue and nation, each and everyone unique and different, still one through the acceptance as Jesus as our only Way, Truth and Life, our pathway to the heart of Father God.
We did and do not deserve this, but by living a life of surrendering our self as living sacrifices, our only true act of spiritual worship can we slowly surrender our self to the sometimes painful inscribing of the truth, hope, guidance, law of love and grace by the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
This grace can never be a cheap grace, a grace that can be without consequences.
A grace that cost God so much can never go side by side with man made religion and the kind of faith that wants God to accept us as we are.
God is not depending on us and God can and will not be named in one breath with our sin and disobedience.
By accepting the fact that we can never, ever be good enough for God we see the true meaning of grace, a free gift paid for by God for the highest possible price.
This grace is a sword that cuts us of from our old self, life and past.
This grace will not leave anything in place as soon as we surrender our self to the working of this grace.
We can understand this grace when we no longer think about this grace through reason and intellect, if w no longer come to a conclusion of reason and thinking. We come to understand this grace if we surrender our self to the sword grace is.
Even though we are still not perfect in our acts and deeds we will be called Holy and pleasing for God because we become united with Christ life and death and God sees us through His beloved Son.
God’s love is not like some soft cotton wrapping you where placed in once you accepted grace, God’s love is like a fire burning with passion to change you to become your true self, change you to become a child of God, this is being a living sacrifice, this is being in the fire of love.
I many times wonder how people and churches think that they can come to God if they are not willing to call sin, a sin, if they are not looking for a church where truth is spoken but where their sin will be accepted.
Love is patient, and God knows that we will fall and stumble, we as believers are more and more called to accept each other as stumbling pilgrims on their way home, people who are far from perfect, who fall and fail, but who are convinced that there is not other way that placing ourselves under the sword of grace, going through the fire of love.
We are called no to place people under a yoke of law and judgement that is revealing sin, but to gentle and patiently guide people to the cross where Jesus died, the grace where he was resurrected from death, to the throne on Fathers right hand, there will people meet grace, love, acceptance, there will the be able to willingly accept and experience grace as a sword, love as a fire.
There is freedom, future, hope and the doorway to eternal life.
Romans 4…
Have a wondurfull blessed life in, through and by Christ our Lord, King and friend
He, Jesus the Christ died for you when you where still a sinner, His grace as there before you earned grace, before you even recognized grace as being there for you.
He, Jesus the Messiah became sin in order to deliver us from sin, and the death that follows sin.
He, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings paid the ultimate price in order to deliver us from sin, our selfish live and from the influence of the disobedience of Adam to re-create us in His tribe coming from every tribe, tongue and nation, each and everyone unique and different, still one through the acceptance as Jesus as our only Way, Truth and Life, our pathway to the heart of Father God.
We did and do not deserve this, but by living a life of surrendering our self as living sacrifices, our only true act of spiritual worship can we slowly surrender our self to the sometimes painful inscribing of the truth, hope, guidance, law of love and grace by the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
This grace can never be a cheap grace, a grace that can be without consequences.
A grace that cost God so much can never go side by side with man made religion and the kind of faith that wants God to accept us as we are.
God is not depending on us and God can and will not be named in one breath with our sin and disobedience.
By accepting the fact that we can never, ever be good enough for God we see the true meaning of grace, a free gift paid for by God for the highest possible price.
This grace is a sword that cuts us of from our old self, life and past.
This grace will not leave anything in place as soon as we surrender our self to the working of this grace.
We can understand this grace when we no longer think about this grace through reason and intellect, if w no longer come to a conclusion of reason and thinking. We come to understand this grace if we surrender our self to the sword grace is.
Even though we are still not perfect in our acts and deeds we will be called Holy and pleasing for God because we become united with Christ life and death and God sees us through His beloved Son.
God’s love is not like some soft cotton wrapping you where placed in once you accepted grace, God’s love is like a fire burning with passion to change you to become your true self, change you to become a child of God, this is being a living sacrifice, this is being in the fire of love.
I many times wonder how people and churches think that they can come to God if they are not willing to call sin, a sin, if they are not looking for a church where truth is spoken but where their sin will be accepted.
Love is patient, and God knows that we will fall and stumble, we as believers are more and more called to accept each other as stumbling pilgrims on their way home, people who are far from perfect, who fall and fail, but who are convinced that there is not other way that placing ourselves under the sword of grace, going through the fire of love.
We are called no to place people under a yoke of law and judgement that is revealing sin, but to gentle and patiently guide people to the cross where Jesus died, the grace where he was resurrected from death, to the throne on Fathers right hand, there will people meet grace, love, acceptance, there will the be able to willingly accept and experience grace as a sword, love as a fire.
There is freedom, future, hope and the doorway to eternal life.
Romans 4…
Have a wondurfull blessed life in, through and by Christ our Lord, King and friend