It was a beautiful day today, I am unsure if it was outside but inside it was. My kids and I had a great day and we finished with a wonderful game and reading the J is for Jesus book. They went to bed without a fight and it was just beautiful. It's moments like this that I am just blown away at God's abundant love. I think it's really easy to loose sight of these little days. Especially when everyday is a battle, we are at war. This world is a war, living for the Lord is not the normal. I'm proud to say that I'm a Jesus freak, I wouldn't be anything without Christ. The picture at the beginning of this post is apart of the advent picture a day I'm doing. In looking at it now, I see this picture as our sin, it bounds us where we are. It holds us hostage and never lets us go. I see no way out of those chains without Christ. As in I'm not free if I'm not in Christ. I'm not able to move let alone talk. I just know how broken I am in those chains, looking at them aren't you feeling restricted. That person that you are without Jesus is limited. It's just like in Corinthians with the law. The people living in the law are bound by it. Not free in the grace that comes from Christ alone. Bound by the law and it holds them down, it clips wings. It holds you hostage never letting you be free from your sin. Can you imagine that? Never being free from your sin? Never being able to make up for your constant failures. Over and Over having it thrown in your face, never able to get your head above water. I love being able to swim because of Christ. To leave sin dead in it's tracks, I'm covered! Jesus has got me, you have no power over me. Every time I picture it I just watch those chains break, God breaks into those chains and does not let them bind me any longer.
6 He has enabled us to be ministers of his new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spirit gives life.2 Corinthians 3:6
See we don't have to see him, because we already know He's with us every single day.Especially this month know how much He loves you. Even when you can't see that He is with you. Trust that He is and He will never leave you.
Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you; he will neither fail you nor abandon you.Deuteronomy 31:8
I was thinking as reading how Jesus is with us, just like our shadow. Even when you can't see it, He's with us. Just a constant, even though you can't always see your shadow you know you have one. You don't have to see Jesus to know He's with us.
"Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see." Hebrews 11:1
You know as this month is about to blow by. Just really take moments to see God through all the chaos. If you aren't enjoying the taste of the fallen snow on the tip of your tongue, breathe in the crisp air knowing you can breathe because God gave you breath. He died for all generations, let's do everything to keep him alive! Blessings and prayers my sweet friends.
S.
It was a beautiful day today, I am unsure if it was outside but inside it was. My kids and I had a great day and we finished with a wonderful game and reading the J is for Jesus book. They went to bed without a fight and it was just beautiful. It's moments like this that I am just blown away at God's abundant love. I think it's really easy to loose sight of these little days. Especially when everyday is a battle, we are at war. This world is a war, living for the Lord is not the normal. I'm proud to say that I'm a Jesus freak, I wouldn't be anything without Christ. The picture at the beginning of this post is apart of the advent picture a day I'm doing. In looking at it now, I see this picture as our sin, it bounds us where we are. It holds us hostage and never lets us go. I see no way out of those chains without Christ. As in I'm not free if I'm not in Christ. I'm not able to move let alone talk. I just know how broken I am in those chains, looking at them aren't you feeling restricted. That person that you are without Jesus is limited. It's just like in Corinthians with the law. The people living in the law are bound by it. Not free in the grace that comes from Christ alone. Bound by the law and it holds them down, it clips wings. It holds you hostage never letting you be free from your sin. Can you imagine that? Never being free from your sin? Never being able to make up for your constant failures. Over and Over having it thrown in your face, never able to get your head above water. I love being able to swim because of Christ. To leave sin dead in it's tracks, I'm covered! Jesus has got me, you have no power over me. Every time I picture it I just watch those chains break, God breaks into those chains and does not let them bind me any longer.
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