Luke 12:32 "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom." I still hold in my heart the night of my 21st birthday when I went to the little empty Catholic Church on the LSU campus. This life-long good Catholic girl knelt alone before the altar and cried for help. I got up and went out and got drunk. I was connected at the hip to kids who drank and did drugs. My treasure was on earth and finding happiness with people here. God answered my humble prayer that night about five years later. And He has never stopped answering my prayers since that day.
My prayer as I read this passage is that I not keep my family and friends in the courtroom. There's only one courtroom I plan to stand in innocence before a Divine Judge who has already cleared me. Can weeping and wailing or dutiful obedience and moral living pay to Divine Justice the debt we have all contracted? No, my Christ has paid my debt in full. I'll stand in that Courtroom someday as a redeemed woman. He gave me a Kingdom beyond what I could have imagined.
All that you wrote Bev, makes me think of that song that Mandisa has sung so beautifully..."Not Guilty"...it brings tears to my eyes every single time...your testimony blesses my heart over and over. Oh, to stand before Him, forgiven with the blood of His precious Son covering all of my filthy rags. Wow...
ReplyDeleteI'm caught up in this sweet place of joy--to stand before Him on that Day and not feel shame. Because of His Blood, because of His Love, we will.
ReplyDeleteMakes me wanna sing,too, Mary Lou.
"You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."
ReplyDeleteI have been watching the Revelation study by Beth Moore. This week I have listened to her teach about the vision of the moveable throne of God and the bowls of prayers at the throne.
It is too much to take in, how holy God is and how worthy Jesus is open the scroll of destiny.
Our eyes are so blind to who our God is, who He was, and who He is to come. We are clothed in humanity, our eyes are blind to His Glory. Only the Spirit and the Son gives us a tiny glimpse of how brilliant and loving and holy our God is.
Can we even behold Him for just a moment today? Can we picture in our eyes the sapphire platform of His throne and the emerald rainbow surrounding His throne? Quiet. Listen to the cry.
Who is worthy to open the scroll?
Weeping with John the Beloved at the very thought of no one worthy to redeem us.
And the Lamb that was slain took the scroll.
May we all be ready when He comes for His remnant of grace covered sheep.
Little flock, He is coming.
Mary Lou, did you see my facebook message. My Droid erased your cell phone #. That's why I haven't called!
ReplyDeleteDeborah, did you see my call tonight?