Jude 1:1,2 ~ To those who are called and kept...
May Mercy, Peace, and Love be multiplied to you.
Keep yourself in the Love of God.
Jude 1:24 ~ Now to Him Who is able
to keep you from stumbling and
to present you blameless before
The Presence of His Glory with Great Joy.
To the Only God, our Savior
Be Glory, Majesty, Dominion, Authority
Before all time and now and Forever. Amen
I want to amen Annette's comment on yesterday's reading. There is no greater joy than hearing/knowing that your children walk in God's Truth! Believe me when I say, to see your 37 year old son do a 180 turn, something you never thought you would see in your lifetime...and how I pray every day that the Lord will keep drawing him and show him the errors of some of this thinking. The world has convinced some Christians that IF everyone is doing something then "we" have to keep with the times. We can be so easily deceived by the world and the culture we live in, we can forget that we are called to be set aside and we are a peculiar people....some just don't get that!!
ReplyDeleteNow, as to today's reading, to think that we are among those who are called by Him and kept by Him...what a blessing.
He is the ONE the only One who is able to keep us from stumbling and can present us blameless us blameless before the throne of almighty God. What assurance, what hope, what joy, what blessing.
He is the only One who deserves all praise, all glory and all honor...it is nothing that we do. We are not able to do it, we are weak,fleshly human beings, to whom an Almighty God has had mercy on and showered us with His amazing grace. Oh, Pearls, it is amazing grace, for it teaches our hearts to fear and it relieves our fears. All of us who call the name Christian are proof positive that it is amazing.
Now to HIM, who is able.....He is able...-praise God.
For such a short Book of the Bible, it is chock full of God's holiness, God's heart and His Wisdom and Grace. The closing words are one of my favorite prayers found in the entire Bible. And I pray them over us today with you:
ReplyDeleteNow to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
Amazing Grace, indeed, Mary Lou! And you testify and I testify and each Pearl testifies--it is amazing and so merciful. Amen.
I love you said that A about the prayer of Jude. I prayed it out loud for my students on our last class of the semester today. And I couldn't keep from crying. The words are so powerful. I've prayed every day a prayer from the Bible for these students starting with the Epistles all the way thru Jude. I wonder if they heard anything? God knows the secrets of their hearts. May Grace rain down on each. And on our own children.
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