God, you are so amazing! Again, I thank you for your Son, Jesus Christ, dying on the cross and taking on all the punishment and wrath of my sins so that I could live by your grace and relentless love and longsuffering. Thank you so much that even if I fall short or when you examine my heart and issues come to the surface, they are completely under the blood. Jesus you died for the sins of the past, present, and future---so I get the gift of repentance. Changing the way I think.
What I am really loving is that you are expanding my understanding of the cross more and more. How much you loved me! How much you truly was in love with me! How much you so believed in me and what Father God has created me to do---you were beaten until no recognition; you were ridiculed, spat upon, persecuted---you embrace that cross, died, and then was buried and was RAISED ON THE THIRD DAY!!!
I grew up hearing about the cross; hearing about Jesus dying for me---however the more and more I get to know God---He's opening my heart to fresh revelation of what He has done so that I can truly appreciate the freedom I get to walk in. Jesus died to give me abundant life. He exchanged all the pain; suffering, sorrows, and hopelessness of this world so I could have His great joy, peace, love, rest, kindness---His nature and character. When we still wallow in failure; mistakes; shame; hopelessness; and issues--we really haven't embraced the fullness of what Christ Jesus did. IT IS FINISHED. And to live a life less than what He paid the most ultimate price for-- It would like be spitting on the cross and stating what He did wasn't enough.
We want to live like we know what He did. The Cross is a gruesome picture however, its not something to grieve---He's not dead. He's alive and well. The Cross is a poetic picture of a Lover willing to lay down His life for His Love so she could live---BOLDLY AND BEAUTIFUL for all the world to see. We should be so love, so astonished by God; so in awe of who He is and His great love for us that we shout it to the roof tops for all the world to see and to know this type of love. God is not obsessed with sin---its already been taken care of---He's obsessed with life!!!
"Then I saw Him there
Hanging on a tree, looking at me
I saw Him there
Hanging on a tree, looking at me
He was looking at me looking at Him, staring through me
I could not escape those beautiful eyes
And I began to weep and weep" ~ Lyrics by Misty Edwards, "Arms Wide Open"
What I am really loving is that you are expanding my understanding of the cross more and more. How much you loved me! How much you truly was in love with me! How much you so believed in me and what Father God has created me to do---you were beaten until no recognition; you were ridiculed, spat upon, persecuted---you embrace that cross, died, and then was buried and was RAISED ON THE THIRD DAY!!!
I grew up hearing about the cross; hearing about Jesus dying for me---however the more and more I get to know God---He's opening my heart to fresh revelation of what He has done so that I can truly appreciate the freedom I get to walk in. Jesus died to give me abundant life. He exchanged all the pain; suffering, sorrows, and hopelessness of this world so I could have His great joy, peace, love, rest, kindness---His nature and character. When we still wallow in failure; mistakes; shame; hopelessness; and issues--we really haven't embraced the fullness of what Christ Jesus did. IT IS FINISHED. And to live a life less than what He paid the most ultimate price for-- It would like be spitting on the cross and stating what He did wasn't enough.
We want to live like we know what He did. The Cross is a gruesome picture however, its not something to grieve---He's not dead. He's alive and well. The Cross is a poetic picture of a Lover willing to lay down His life for His Love so she could live---BOLDLY AND BEAUTIFUL for all the world to see. We should be so love, so astonished by God; so in awe of who He is and His great love for us that we shout it to the roof tops for all the world to see and to know this type of love. God is not obsessed with sin---its already been taken care of---He's obsessed with life!!!
"Then I saw Him there
Hanging on a tree, looking at me
I saw Him there
Hanging on a tree, looking at me
He was looking at me looking at Him, staring through me
I could not escape those beautiful eyes
And I began to weep and weep" ~ Lyrics by Misty Edwards, "Arms Wide Open"
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