Are You Sad? Are You In Trouble? Are You Suffering? This is what GOD says, the God who builds a road right through the ocean, who carves a path through pounding waves, The God who summons horses and chariots and armies— they lie down and then can’t get up; they’re snuffed out like so many candles: Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. Forget about what’s happened; don’t keep going over old history. Be alert, be present. I Am about to do something brand-new. It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it? There it is! I Am making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands. Wild animals will say ‘Thank you!’ —the coyotes and the buzzards— Because I provided water in the desert, rivers through the sun-baked earth, Drinking water for the people I chose, the people I made especially for myself, a people custom-made to praise me. [Isaiah 43:16-21]. God chooses you and me to praise and worship Him. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible… everything got started in God and finds its purpose in God. [Colossians 1:16]. What is it that God’s believer must press forward? Like Apostle Paul let us press toward the Goal in Life. Listen to this testimony: Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Yeshua Messiah has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Yeshua Messiah. [Philippians 3:12-14]. Are you hurt in the past? Whatever may be the cause, let us keep moving in life. Let us not live in the past. Past is past. It cannot and will not help us to become what God wants us to be. It is better to keep a mind frame on the present and project how we progress in the future. Let us move towards God and move towards growing becoming a person of God. A person of God thinks like Xristo. This is Xristophilosopher. Let us ponder on what the prophets have said: But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. [Isaiah 40:31]. God’s believer obeys the apostolic counsel: Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. Come to Him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Yeshua Messiah. [I Peter 2:1-2]. Together with Paul the Apostle we can say, I am crucified with the Messiah: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Yeshua Messiah lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to the Lord Yeshua, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. [Galatians 2:20; Hebrews 12:1]. Let us move forward praising and worshipping God in Xristo.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 09:12:35 +0000
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