Well whats happened since last time....Well where do I start.
On Sunday 5th June i was baptised!!!! Hallelujah praise God. I've finally found my way home for good :)
Do i feel any different....No, should i? .....No idea but one thing i do know is i have alot more love.Although on another note i am a little hurt aswell. Hurt?? you might ask, well yes when you love hurt is apart of the deal. But it doesnt mean you stop or only love this person and that person.I have come to love my family in Jesus and it seems that they are not as forthcoming in unconditional love as i am. So i look to God for healing in this.Does it mean i stop loving them ...NO!!!!!!!
Love, what is love well this is the age old question. For me Love is something from God,he chooses to love us uncondtionally no matter what we do, so for me this is how i want to love others.... with all the things i have been through it shouldn't be possible for me to love some would say but i do and i have lots to give.I was abused when i was younger, whenever i saw this man i couldnt walk past him, i had to take a detour around the long way so i could get to where i wanted to be.But now i see that just because of what he did doesnt mean he doesnt deserve love.We are not to judge whether or not people should be loved based on what they've done,Jesus doesnt do it so why should we?? If i was to see this man now i wouldnt go throw my arms around him, but i wouldnt hold anything agaisnt him either.When i forgave him i gave everything to God regarding that situation and so that anulls any thing that is not from God.
Loving people is hard.For me it is something i feel God has given me a gift for as it doesn't matter to me what,who where or why.Some people might say thats silly because we have to be careful who we love, afterall there are some not so nice characters out there nowadays. My question is did Jesus only love those who seemed good or did he love uncondtionally EVERYONE????? Did he only love people until they said or did something that hurt, or upset or offend him??? NO he loved them unconditionally no matter where they came from, he welcomed them open armed into his love, he didnt wait to see if they were right or wrong...afterall love is something that if you are a follower of God is readily available all the time.
Everyday I strive to be like Jesus and so that means loving everyone no matter what they've done.One question to ask when having a problem loving someone is does Jesus love them????? If we want to be more like Jesus then we should take a page out of his book!!!!!
Loving can cost,loving can feel unjust even. But remember what Jesus did for us on the cross.He died for us when we were his enemies.He died a sinless man for our sin.
John 13:34-35, Leviticus 19:18, 1 John 4:16, Mark 12:31, Matthew 5:43-48, 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 13, Romans 13:8-10, 1 John 4:19-21, Matthew 6:14-15, Matthew 18:21-35, John 15:9-13, 1 Peter 4:8-10, 1 John 4:7-21
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Friday, 3 June 2011
Life with God
Well this is the first time I have ever blogged, so please bear with me.
Its been quite a few months since I came back to God, I guess I never really left him I just took him for a ride in my life instead of giving back to him the life he gave me to live and trusting that he would take care of me. Alot has happened to me in this life, quite a few bad things and some good. I have come to realise that whatever we go through in life we can either sit around and let it get us down or we can let God deal with it and then in turn help other people find the same hope and forgiveness and release from it as we have..
Even though I never put God at the forefront of this life he never left me.When I had depression and had suicidal thoughts not long after having my daughter, Jesus was there in the form of a dream.When I had my premature son 2 months early, he was there, the surgeon who delivered my son was a born again Christian. I can look at almost every time in this life the good and the bad and see blatantly that God was always there.
I find that as people were so busy with our lives that we never really stop to make sure that God is with us,or put him first, we just continue whatever our day to day tasks include and normally only when things go wrong or something we've asked for goes right do we ever stop and think to thank God or just pray.
Since finding God for myself personally I take every morning to say thank you to him and to give him this life that he has given me,to give him all that the day entails both for me and my children, after all he made us so who would better know how to take good care of us than our maker??
The way I see it is my life is like a bag, and along the journey of life this bag has picked up things,some good and some bad, I myself don't realise just what the bag has picked up apart from the hurts which I can feel and the happy memories I hold dear, so I give my bag over to God for him to sort out, he then goes through the bag and deals with the things that weigh it down and make my life so much harder, he heals all the hurts that then turn into lessons and help for others and he takes out the bad stuff that I don't realise is there and so my bag (life) becomes lighter.
Anything that has made you who you are in God is a gift. By giving God our lives everyday we are worshipping him.'Your life is your gift to give back to God as an act of worship.' (Romans 12:1-3) How many of you actually give your life and everything over to God every morning so he can lead you through the day?????
Its been quite a few months since I came back to God, I guess I never really left him I just took him for a ride in my life instead of giving back to him the life he gave me to live and trusting that he would take care of me. Alot has happened to me in this life, quite a few bad things and some good. I have come to realise that whatever we go through in life we can either sit around and let it get us down or we can let God deal with it and then in turn help other people find the same hope and forgiveness and release from it as we have..
Even though I never put God at the forefront of this life he never left me.When I had depression and had suicidal thoughts not long after having my daughter, Jesus was there in the form of a dream.When I had my premature son 2 months early, he was there, the surgeon who delivered my son was a born again Christian. I can look at almost every time in this life the good and the bad and see blatantly that God was always there.
I find that as people were so busy with our lives that we never really stop to make sure that God is with us,or put him first, we just continue whatever our day to day tasks include and normally only when things go wrong or something we've asked for goes right do we ever stop and think to thank God or just pray.
Since finding God for myself personally I take every morning to say thank you to him and to give him this life that he has given me,to give him all that the day entails both for me and my children, after all he made us so who would better know how to take good care of us than our maker??
The way I see it is my life is like a bag, and along the journey of life this bag has picked up things,some good and some bad, I myself don't realise just what the bag has picked up apart from the hurts which I can feel and the happy memories I hold dear, so I give my bag over to God for him to sort out, he then goes through the bag and deals with the things that weigh it down and make my life so much harder, he heals all the hurts that then turn into lessons and help for others and he takes out the bad stuff that I don't realise is there and so my bag (life) becomes lighter.
Anything that has made you who you are in God is a gift. By giving God our lives everyday we are worshipping him.'Your life is your gift to give back to God as an act of worship.' (Romans 12:1-3) How many of you actually give your life and everything over to God every morning so he can lead you through the day?????
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