Luke 24:2 The women found the stone rolled away from the tomb. "He is not here, but has risen." The stone was rolled away so the women could enter and see that He was gone. The stone rolled back didn't let Jesus out; the Christ let all of us in. His shroud was folded---a symbol of: It is Finished! It's what we bank our life on---the Resurrected Christ who died in our place for our sin. And, He will never be angry with me or you anymore. There was a collision. A moment of transforming Grace. God turned His back on his Son. And the purpose of that moment is to liberate me from my sin. He did it! Finished! Transforming Grace released. That's how I can live the Christian life. Not by works of righteousness but by a realignment of my heart. Oh, how we need the grace of the work of the Person of Jesus Christ! I heard someone say today: "Freedom from sin is not: I have overcome the struggle. Our freedom is the finished work of Christ." We don't have to do anything! But we want to do everything to follow Him!
"Restoration is not one moment, one week, one month, one year
God assigns to [believers] a race of repentance,
which they are to run throughout their lives." John Calvin
The conference has been so good today! I'm alone here and while I wish I was sharing this with a friend, it has been oh-so-good. Here's a quote: "I trust Him that I do not doubt that He will provide whatever I need for body and soul. And He will turn to my good whatever adversity He sends my way."
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to hearing from you Ang! Praying for you as the sun sets here in Dallas!
Annette, Happy Birthday to Linds. And for her precious husband, our prayers and awe. Oh my!
Praying for Baby Drew who is alive and kicking and screaming! Rejoicing! Praying for his mama on a long journey ahead of her.
The Trinity is working on her behalf---I know cause it says so in Romans 8:26-39---all Three of them!
I posted on Twitter quotes from the conference I am at.
ReplyDeleteBlogger wouldn't take my post just now..will try to come back later today and do one...have a 5K race to go to for my husband and then two soccer games for grandchildren...love to all of you...
ReplyDeleteNow, to see IF I can put down any thing that I wrote early this morning...don't know if it will come.
ReplyDeletePraising God for getting your car fixed Bev....prayed for cool breezes and less heat. I know how hot it can be in TX this time of year..it can be bad here too. So thankful you are having such a blessed time at the conference.
Glad to see Angie's post on the other thing for today's reading.
What blessings you all are to have prayed for Sally and her baby. Someone wrote on her Caring Bridge website, how that each prayer lifted for them was like the cup of cold water offered that Jesus talks about in the scripture...the prayers were offered out of love for Him and the body of Christ. They were not offered to receive rewards but to bless someone who we are bound to with the love of Christ.
In today's reading the thought struck me...when the two on the road to Emmaus said "did not our hearts burn when He told us of the scripture"....that has happened to me and I am thinking it has happened to each one of you, at various times in your walk with Christ when you either read His word or heard it preached or as you prayed, you felt Him strongly stir your soul.
May each one of you have a blessed Mother's Day tomorrow. I've already been blown away...my son and his boys brought me two dozen pink roses..I am speechless..the only time in his adult life that he has given me flowers for Mother's Day, much less a gift. God is changing him and I am so grateful.
Still rejoicing with Annette over her son in laws new birth in Christ. What joy that is...makes you want to jump and shout!!!!well, at least it does me...Love to each pearl....
from Angie:
ReplyDeleteHi, friends and my precious Prayer Warriors!
Thank you SO much for your prayers and support through my ordeal. I'm a bit exhausted and my headache hasn't gone away yet. I was in the hearing for 2 hours and there was no decision. They will let us know in 8-10 days. I expected my former boss to lie, but I wasn't prepared to hear one of my former co-workers to lie 3 times! She denied the truth and that bothered me. God gave me so much strength and I wasn't the least bit intimidated. It would be easy to think it's because I've watched too much t.v. and love watching court cases, but God gets every bit of the Glory. My former boss had an attorney and a witness and I had no advocate and a witness that was forced to stay outside. Anyway, I won't know anything for awhile.
THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!
In His Grip,
Angie
from Mary Lou
ReplyDeleteMay 7, 2011 8:28 AM
Mary Lou said...
Thanks for the update...we were wondering how things went. God is on the side of truth...Lady Justice is blind...you will win in the end NO matter what the outcome is..Just keep clinging to Him and looking to Him. You will be fine No matter what the decision is...love you..have a blessed Mother's Day.
May 7, 2011 3:16 PM