Oh How I Love Jesus!

I have such a desire to please God that it occupies alot of my thinking. I strive to live for Christ and to become more like Him, not in a legalistic way, because I know without a doubt we can't earn salvation and none of us could ever be good enough. However...I am in love with the Lord and I don't know how I made it without Him. I am overwhelmed when I think of how He has forgiven me and I didn't and don't deserve His love.

Isn't that what it means to love, you have a desire to die to yourself and serve the one you love? I love my job, I desire to serve my masters in the flesh, they are good to me, they show me they care, how much more has my Savior shown me His love for me, which makes me want to obey Him, serve Him, to strive daily to be like Him.

The argument is we don't have to do anything, but my argument is...but I want to!!!!

When I read His word I want to hear more, I get consumed by it, I feel when I am reading I am there, I am in awe, I feel His presence, His love for me. Oh How I love Jesus!

Prayer

Lord Jesus, thou who art the way, the truth, and the life; hear us as we pray for the truth that shall make all free. Teach us that liberty is not only to be loved but also to be lived. Liberty is too precious a thing to be buried in books. It costs too much to be hoarded. Help us see that our liberty is not the right to do as we please, but the opportunity to do what is right.

Peter Marshall, Before the U.S. Senate.

TIME

If you had a bank that credited your account each morning with $86,000 that carried over no balance from day to day...Allowed you to keep no cash in your account, and every evening cancelled whatever part of the amount you failed to use during the day, what would you do? Draw out every cent every day, of course, and use it to your advantage!

Well, you have such a bank, and its name is TIME! Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it rules off as lost whatever of this you failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balances, it allows no overdrafts. Each day it opens a new account with you. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing against tomorrow.

What the World Needs Now, is Love Sweet Love

Sin is running rampant in our society. Daily headlines shout the atrocities of the latest school shootings, child abuse, pornography, serial killings, and terrorism. Our prisons are overflowing, our youth facilities are overcrowded with youth who have no purpose, who belong to gangs for acceptance and identity. Our world is overflowing with violence, hatred, corruption.

Reading, hearing, and perhaps even experiencing these tragedies i begin to understand the necessity of God's judgment. I even find myself wishing for justice, not mercy, not forgiveness, but justice! I mean really, I am being real here.

Today for instance, I got a report of a seventy year old man who has been molesting a twelve year old since birth. The guy even had illicit pictures of the child. Did I feel mercy? No! Did I feel forgiveness? No! I felt anger, I felt disgust, I felt he was beyond redemption. Then I am reminded that what these offenders need more than anything is a life change. Is that possible? In my human understanding .... no it isn't!!! But with God, it is...

I mean I don't even understand it at all. I realize how far God has brought me, how much He has worked and how much further I need to go. His love has Changed me and is STILL changing me. For that I am thankful, because I have a ways to go. Tonight I am angry, so I gotta let it go. Thanks for listening.

Just Let It Go, Surrender!

Relinquish:
1.to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
2.to give up; put aside or desist from: to relinquish a plan.
3.to let go; release: to relinquish one's hold.

The Lord ministered to me this week that I have to sometimes relinquish the very thing that is troubling me, I have to yield, give way to the thing I am holding onto, I have to surrender and as I was sharing this with my husband, it brought tears to his eyes.

I was telling him how sometimes when things are troubling me that I seem to hang on to them. I try to fix the problem. I try to figure out what I did wrong, or why this is happening. I feel like I failed somewhere along the way and this is a consequence of my action, because I think to myself, why else would this be happening.

As I was seeking the Lord, He spoke to my heart and told me to let go, to relinguish my control, my fix it plan, my guilt, just to let it go and then He would be able to run onto the scene and rescue me. He reminded me that He sees the whole picture, He is aware, and He is the only one who can fix what troubles me. I have to surrender, I have to abandon the right to hang on, I have to give up.

So you know what? I abandoned my will, my control to the Captain of the Mighty Host of Heaven and I pledge Him my allegiance and obedience until the earth receives His glory! And I want to thank Him for rescuing me! I already feel no longer defeated, but I feel the Victory. Sometimes we have to give up to win!

Funny

You," said the doctor to the patient, "are in terrible shape. You've got to do something about it.

First, tell your wife to cook more nutritious meals. Stop working like a dog. Also, inform your wife you're going to make a budget, and she has to stick to it. And have her keep the kids off your back so you can relax. Unless there are some changes like that in your life, you'll probably be dead in a month."

"Doc," the patient said, "this would sound more official coming from you. Could you please call my wife and give her those instructions?"

When the fellow got home, his wife rushed to him. "I talked to your doctor," she wailed. "Poor man, you've only got thirty days to live."

Truth Doesn't Change

I am on a soapbox today because of a discussion I had with someone recently about truth. I believe truth remains unchanged because it is guaranteed by the character of God. God is truth and what He says is the last word. The person I was talking to was trying to tell me truth changes, I told them, then it wasn't truth to begin with.

In my limited understanding of God, I find I am unable to agree with majority opinion on alot of issues ... for that would be to disagree with God. I don't get into arguments because that is not my personality, but I do stand up for what I believe.

It seems to me in our world today, most people base their opinions on what everyone else is doing. I find this to be true when it comes to politics, right and wrong, good and evil, family, relationships, what our friends think and so on.

It's like everyone is seeking out someone who will agree with what they are doing, rather than wanting to know the truth and follow the truth. I know this has always been, but lately it seems it is infiltrating everything.

Who cares what the experts are saying or the latest study, or what the news reported, or what do my friends think? Those things can be altered to say what we want it to say to justify what we want to do. Science is not always factual, it is based on theory, but the God who created us has the truth, He has the answers, we should be seeking and asking Him and if He says don't do it, then we shouldn't. I believe in counseling, but Counselors are people, they are fallen, they sometimes insert their opinions, or are bent on their own assumptions or what they were taught. My question is......Is the person you are listening to seeking the one who is truth?

I don't know...but if you have an opinion please express it, lately I was even questioning myself.

God's Blessings!

Aiden Skylar Thompson, one of God's best gifts.

God's Word is Always Relevant

I was reading Numbers tonight and I was thinking wow! I know how Moses felt. He was talking to the Lord about how all the people were whining and complaining and about how God was getting angry. So he says to the Lord, "why have you brought all this trouble on me?" I laughed even when I read Moses says, I didn't give these people birth, I didn't bring them in the world, so what did I do to deserve this? Why do you want me to carry them around in my arms as a nurse carries and infant and bring them to the land you promised them. lol!

Oh my, I feel your pain Moses!! He said, these people just keep coming to me and complaining, they won't listen, they want their own way and here I am trying to be obedient and do what you have told me, but man I wanna give up.

I could so relate. In the ministry there are times when I just hit my knee and say, Okay God, you created this kid, you brought him to us, so you change him because I can't. You speak to him, you open his eyes so he can see what you want him to see and his ears so he can hear your voice, because right now I just wanna give up. I am tired of serving. Then God speaks to me in that small wee voice and says .... now you get to feel a little of what I feel when I am dealing with you. lol!! Why did He have to go there????

I love God's Word, I love reading it and it is so so relevant to me today.

Yikes I am Overwhelmed!!

Whew, have you ever had one of those weeks and then you have decisions you have to make on top of that week? That is how my week is going. I am working 7pm to 7am and then I have been getting called in early.

I also was told I would be going to days in about 8 weeks so I will be working from 7am to 7pm. The only problem is I love my supervisor. He is a Christian and is very much of a people person and this is the first time I have had such a wonderful working environment at work. I am blessed to have wonderful officers to work with and Dispatch and Jail personel.

So now I have waited forever and a day to get to go on Day shift, but I know it is not going to be anything like what I have now. So I am torn. What do I do? Do I give up Days and stay on my shift, or do I give it a shot. I am praying and asking God to help me make the right decision. Who would have thought I would be in this dilemna since I have wanted days for three years???